Corporate and high net worth banks
Strategic Deployment, Modeling & Financial Engineering
Pricing Tools Update - FRTB Regulation
Objectives :
- Development within the Market Risk Department of the pricing of interest rate instruments in a Bi-Curve environment with multi-currency collateralization for the calculation of regulatory expenses allocated to market risk in the FRTB project
- Validation of the pricing method for interest rate instruments in the case of negative rates
Approach & Implementation:
- Implementation in a dual currency environment of a Bootstrap method of a foreign discount curve using cross currency swap rates
- Impact test of a Front Office proposal of dynamic shift in a shifted normal log model
Implementation of provision depreciation models in the team's library
Challenges & Objectives:
- Implementation of provision calculation models in accordance with IFRS 9
Approach & Implementation:
- Development of a tool to generate probability of default (PD) and loss given default (LGD) curves according to defined criteria
- Calculation of provisions on portfolios eligible to IFRS9 guidelines
Ensure the evolution and improvement of an Equity Derivatives / Equity Indices pricing software
Challenges & Objectives:
- Provide sellers with a pricing tool that allows them to offer clients real-time prices on the widest possible range of derivative products (OTC / Swap / EMTN)
- Automate as much as possible the whole pricing chain: deal & booking / generation of legal documents
- Develop connectivity to external platforms (emailing, websites)
- Provide user support
Approach & Implementation:
- Liaise with sales, trading and quants to understand and prioritize software evolution requests:
- Integration of new products
- Improvement of pricing quality (competitiveness / aggressiveness)
- Improvement of calculation performance
- Specify the requests and supervise the developers in order to carry out the requested evolutions
- Support and comply with regulatory requirements (PRIIPS, Hire Act)
- Implement a new methodology for barrier spreads (trading margins)
- Implement an automated mass price comparison tool (non-regression tests / securitization)
- Implement a daily automated reporting to monitor market data updates
- Improve market data transformations (dividends, volatility, correlations)
- Modification of the valuation of the funding swap for EMTNs