Technical paper
Exposure under systemic impact
Wrong-way risk (WWR) behaves differently for exposures to systemically important counterparties because their default has the potential to move financial markets before the close-out. Michael Pykhtin and Alexander Sokol show how the traditional exposure…
Cutting edge: Impact of execution behaviour on valuation of optional financial contracts
Expected payoff maximisation is a commonly assumed strategy in valuation. S Hossein Hosseini, Qiaoyan Bian, Jay Chen and John Jiang suggest that execution strategies may vary due to complex option structures and their resulting uncertainties. Using a…
Exposure under systemic impact
Exposure under systemic impact
Longevity risk under Solvency II
Longevity risk under Solvency II
Fast gammas for Bermudan swaptions
Fast gammas for Bermudan swaptions
Cutting Edge introduction: Accuracy or speed?
Accuracy or speed?
Hybrid smiles made fast
Hybrid smiles made fast
SABR spreads its wings
SABR spreads its wings
Wrong-way risk, credit and funding
The risk of exposure and counterparty default probability both increasing – so-called wrong-way risk – is usually understood in terms of the correlation between the two variables. But this approach is focused more on the centre of the distribution, and…