Term structure
Podcast: Julien Guyon on volatility modelling and World Cup draws
Academic discusses option pricing, path-dependent volatility and tackling FIFA’s statistical bias
CMS pricing: overdue annuities
An RFR-based pricing and risk management model for CMS and its derivatives is presented
Interpolating commodity futures prices with Kriging
A futures price’s term structure is built to account for trends and seasonality effects
Optimal exercise of callable bonds
Citi quants and structurers present a term-structure model for callable bonds' work
High-frequency movements of the term structure of US interest rates: the role of oil market uncertainty
This paper analyzes the impact of oil market uncertainty on the level, slope and curvature factors derived from the term structure of US interest rates.
Black basket analytics for mid-curves and spread options
A new solution to calibrate derivatives with multiple strikes is proposed
Fractured Libor transition halts US structured rates switch
Issuance of non-Libor caps and floors dries up as lending markets mull array of credit-sensitive SOFR rivals
Markit launches credit-sensitive SOFR alternatives
Crits can be used as add-on to SOFR, while Critr will be a standalone benchmark
Dealers split on role of Japan’s term rate
Isda AGM: Japanese corporates continue to eye “fragile” JPY term rate, despite concerns
US stumbles in pursuit of term SOFR
Flaky swaps liquidity sees June 2021 target slip; CME claims indicative settings already meet international standards
Fed group: SOFR term rate unlikely in 2021
ARRC chair says use case of a forward-looking benchmark would be limited
Tradition to launch first SOFR order book
Streaming swap prices are a critical step to creating term rates for loan markets
CME looks to life after Eurodollars, as rivals circle
Eurodollar futures will die with Libor but there is no obvious ready-made replacement
IBA, Refinitiv go live with regulated term Sonia rates
First deals linked to new benchmarks are likely to be in trade finance
Japan weighs benchmark options as sun sets on Libor
Dominance of risk-free rates in local swaps markets post-Libor is no foregone conclusion, dealers say
Slow €STR swap take-up threatens term rate fallbacks
Esma’s Maijoor calls for greater use of new benchmark to help develop forward-looking rates
Rival SOFR conventions splinter loan market
Diverging approaches to calculating interest payments sow uncertainty and hedging concerns
Dynamic refinement of the term structure: time-homogeneous term structure modeling
The author considers a classical term structure model framework, ie, a Heath–Jarrow–Morton framework, on a time-discrete tenor, such as the London Interbank Offered Rate market model, using a sequence of tenor discretizations, where the tenors are valid…
Libor replacement II: completing the generalised FMM
The FMM is upgraded to model the full term structure, pricing all possible bonds and the bank account
Key steps in the transition to SOFR
Phil Whitehurst, head of service development, rates, SwapClear at LCH, offers his insight into when a term structure for the secured overnight financing rate (SOFR) is likely to be established, what will be required for this to become a reality and what…
Singapore debuts floater linked to risk-free rate
DBS to issue one-year note with compounded SORA coupon