CRZ Pricer Release 17.2.5

By | 3 August 2017

Pricing [New] Preparation for new currencies: HKD, SGD, MXN [Bug] Fixed synchronization issues on live markets Portfolio [New] Added FRTB Reduced SBM view (see BCBS document d408) [New] Improved market loading performance on views requiring calculations on a range of dates: hVar, FRTB IMA, FRTB CVA IMA, Historical price & greeks Market Data Analysis [Bug]… Read More »

CRZ Pricer release 17.2.1

By | 21 May 2017

Pricing [New] Added four currencies: CZK, HUF, PLN & ZAR [New] Added ability to discount a yield curve with an underlying in another currency (ZAR3M is discounted at USDOIS) [New] Added customized measures defined as a function of a scenario and other measures Contribution [Bug] Max Variation could fail and has been removed temporarily Market… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 17.2.0

By | 6 May 2017

Pricing [New] Added support of Wrong Way risk on CVA: a correlation between exposure and time of default is defined at credit curve level Portfolio [New] Added BA-CVA (FRTB) view [New] Added Marginal Impact of Risk on FRTB-SBM view [New] Added dynamic chart linked to pivot table [Bug] FRTB-IMA marginal allocation was wrong Contribution [New]… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 17.1.0

By | 3 April 2017

Pricing [New] Added Eris style Swap Futures [New] Added Deliverable Swap Futures [New] Add FX Futures and FX Future options [New] Added CSA specification. Previously, only perfect CSAs were supported [Bug] Fixed incorrect stubs occurring at end of month Contribution [Bug] In IR Volatility|ATM, price displayed was wrong due to cash settled convexity not properly… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 17.0.1

By | 1 March 2017

Pricing [New] Added Mandatory termination options [New] Added Cap & floor blotter Contribution [New] Added Missing fixings contribution screen [New] Added Max variation to prevent contribution errors [New] Added manual ATM volatility Cap & floor calibration [Bug] USD ATM Volatility would not open since the addition of USDCME3M curve [Bug] Contribution was too frequent when… Read More »

Cash-settled European Swaptions

By | 27 January 2017

The standard market formula used to price cash-settled swaptions is a copy of the physical delivery Black formula, where the classical annuity term is replaced with a single-factor one (discounting on the underlying swap rate fixing at maturity). As reported in Mercurio and OpenGamma notes, this formula is not arbitrage-free. In order to get a proper… Read More »

Curve Construction with Hermite Spline Interpolation

By | 6 January 2017

In numerical analysis, a cubic Hermite spline or cubic Hermite interpolator is a spline where each piece is a third-degree polynomial specified in Hermite form: that is, by its values and first derivatives at the end points of the corresponding domain interval. Hermite curves are very easy to calculate but also very powerful. Curve Construction… Read More »