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 18.3.4

By | 12 October 2018

Pricing [New] Added Vol square root T scenario on asset volatilities [New] Added ‘Strike Volatility’ scenario allowing to convert an asset vol surface into an Expiry x Strike grid [New] Added Cubic Spline asset smile interpolation Contribution [New] Added auto-contribution feature in Market Status view [New] Added ability to reset Bloomberg connection (Main Menu >… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 18.3.2

By | 25 September 2018

Pricing [New] Added LSV (Local Stochastic Volatility model) to price exotics on assets (FX/EQ/CO underlyings) [New] Added CLV (Collocating Volatility model) to price exotics on assets (FX/EQ/CO underlyings) [New] Added SVI smile parametrisation [New] Historical data chart. Now, one can choose between instruments with fixed dates or sliding dates [New] Add local portfolio view. This… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 18.3.0

By | 25 July 2018

Pricing [New] Improved smile interpolation on assets (FX/EQ/CO underlyings) [New] Improved Monte-Carlo precision thanks to the ‘Match Covariance’ method (applicable on XVA and multi-callable products) Portfolio [New] Added monitoring of exposure limits [New] CEM now takes into account the ‘Settlement to Market’ CSA feature [New] Added Desk granularity Miscellaneous [New] Allow deal allocation to multiple… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 18.2.3

By | 12 July 2018

Pricing [New] Added support of American barriers on assets (FX/EQ/CO underlyings) [New] Added support of event weights for asset volatility [New] FX volatility now supports several BF and RR widths, typically 25% and 10% delta Market Data Analysis [New] Added event weight view on FX Contribution [New] Added connectivity to Reuters API [New] Added event… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 18.2.1

By | 28 May 2018

Pricing [New] Added ‘FWD’ yield curve instrument allowing support of meeting dates/turns of the year Contribution [New] Added contribution of rate fixings Market Data Analysis [New] Added ability to save results/export results to Excel Portfolio [New] Added grid computing. Requires admin rights in this preliminary version. Miscellaneous [New] Task Scheduler now supports several time triggers… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 18.1.1

By | 16 April 2018

Pricing [New] Added LPI product [New] Added new payoffs: capped (float-call), floored (float+put), collared (float+put-call) [New] Added volatility swaps and options on volatility or variance swaps on FX, Equity and Commodity asset classes. The pricing is done thanks to an Heston model which is calibrated on the fly. [New] Deal audit improved to better spot… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 18.1.0

By | 19 March 2018

Pricing [New] Option added in pricing params to automatically calculate relevant measures (in deal screens) [New] Added new pricing measures: implied IR Volatility, FX Volatility, SO Correlation and Credit Spread [New] Added CFI and Trading Venue in deal envelope [New] Added support of repo and break clauses in FpML [New] Migrated from FpML 5.7 to… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 18.0.1

By | 2 March 2018

Pricing [New] Added FX Variance swaps [New] Added Total Return Swaps on bonds [New] Added (natural) Cubic and Akima splines as interpolation methods to the yield curve. Default spline switched from Hermite to Cubic. New market scenario allowing to change spline. [Bug] AED, SAR curve stripping could fail due to new kind of dependency between… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 17.5.2

By | 22 January 2018

Pricing [New] Added Equity and Commodity asset classes: pricing of cash/forward/vanilla options Added booking screens, dedicated scenarios and risk transformations Portfolio [New] All portfolio views now support Equities and Commodities, including Capital, Initial margin and XVA views [New] FRTB SA-CVA and BA-CVA upgraded to the finalised version (BCBS d424) Market Data Analysis [New] Added Equity… Read More »