NEWSLETTER 334 EDITORIAL November 2017

Editorial FX Options Delta Today let me illustrate the different types of Delta commonly used in the FX Options context. In FX, Delta, and many other Greeks, can be confusing, because they depend on the quotation of the currency pair as well as the currency in which...

NEWSLETTER 333 EDITORIAL October 2017

Editorial FX Volatility Market Data: How Independent are 10-Delta Quotes for Risk Reversals and Butterflies? The information of the FX volatility surface is contained in a small set of market quotes as you would find them at brokers: ATM volatility, 25-Delta Risk...

NEWSLETTER 332 EDITORIAL September 2017

Editorial Case Study: Hedge Effectiveness of an FX Shark Forward under IFRS 9 With an upgrade from IAS 39 to IFRS 9 in the accounting, one question for exporters and importers that comes up is how to pass standard structured forwards through hedge accounting. The...

NEWSLETTER 331 EDITORIAL AUGUST 2017

Editorial FX Options and Structured Products, 2nd Edition       Finally, the second edition of FX Options and Structured Products has now been published. It took more than 10 years, but with much removed and added material, it has changed quite a bit. For...

NEWSLETTER 330 EDITORIAL JULY 2017

Editorial Calendar arbitrage in the FX volatility surface Today I would like to share an observation with you that my colleagues Alexander and Andreas discovered when analyzing FX volatility market data. When we construct the FX volatility smile based on the usual FX...