Author Archives: Franck Albert

About Franck Albert

X-Pont (1994 promotion), Franck Albert is a former exotic options trader for HSBC in Paris and BNP Paribas in London. From January 2009 to April 2016, he has been head of the quantitative fixed income risk team at BNP Paribas London, before joining CRZ Pricing as co-founder.

CRZ Pricer Release 19.2.2

By | 20 August 2019

Common [New] Added Relative value based on historical quintiles on most Market data analysis (MDA) views [New] Added Carry/Roll down relative value analysis on swap, bond and CDS MDA views [New] Added smoothing relative value analysis on swap, inflation, bond, CDS and swaption straddles MDA views [New] Added view ‘Add Deals from XML Files’ allowing… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 19.2.1

By | 8 August 2019

Common [New] Added support of yield curve turns of the year [New] Added bulk transformations in Market definition – Risk Representation. Ex: allows to transform all xccy curves in FX curves with a few clicks [New] In contribution view, added instantaneous forward chart for Yield/Inflation/Credit curves [New] Improved yield curve contribution from SDR. Now handles… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 19.2.0

By | 1 July 2019

Common [New] Added Portfolio Dashboard allowing to hide ptf views and summarize them with one number [New] In ‘Add Deals From File’ it’s now possible to launch a portfolio view without saving the deals in DB [New] Added zooming functionality on all charts [Bug] Portfolio pricing was slower since latest version (views Price/greeks and Historical… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 19.1.0

By | 28 April 2019

Common [New] Added Initial Margin calculation with the SPAN method for futures and future options [New] Added Initial Margin Dashboard to aggregate IM across all calculation methods (SPAN, hVaR, SIMM) [New] Portfolio views will now automatically open dependencies whenever they are missing [New] Added risks calculations in pricing screen with ability to override all sensitive… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 19.0.4

By | 12 April 2019

Common [New] In Market Data Analysis, added support of unlimited number of markets [New] On charts, added composite lines, i.e. ability to add curves such as spread, fly, ratio of other curves [New] On historical data charts, added analysis lines such as (moving) historical vol/correl, linear regression, etc. Also added line analyses such as max,… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 19.0.3

By | 25 March 2019

Common [New] Added Portfolio Replication view [New] Added Automatic API code generation, similar to macro recording in Excel (Beta version) [New] In Market Data Analysis, added historical forward chart on views already supporting forward charts [New] Market status now supports all markets (previously only live markets), with specific rules defined in User > Options for… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 19.0.2

By | 5 March 2019

Pricing [New] Improved modelling of dividends: dividends can be affine, added all-in ratio (accounting for taxation), no risk on announced dividends, new scenarios [New] Asset volatility matrices now support at the delta representation [New] Added sigma-beta Rate/Vol dynamics in IR Volatility (scenario and contribution). With this option, the SABR param  is kept constant when rates move,… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 19.0.1

By | 15 February 2019

Pricing [New] Added Credit Default baskets, aka Nth to defaults [New] Added Credit Default swaptions (single name and indices) [New] Improved credit correlation model to support more pricing methods (exact, binomial, not just LHP) [New] Added support of bespoke credit portfolios, defined in absolute or relative terms [New] Upgraded SIMM and capital measures to support… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 19.0.0

By | 13 January 2019

Pricing [New] Added Equity/Commodity Futures and Future options [New] Added Dividend Futures and Dividend swaps (through SubType EQ DIVIDEND) [New] Added pricing of Double Knock-in and Knock-out (on FX/EQ/CO) [New] Auto-callable on single asset now uses asset model (e.g. LSV) instead of HJM model [Bug] Counterparty overrides (in market definition) could fail to apply [Bug]… Read More »