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