The derivative market started in the 1970s, predominantly to provide bank customers with mechanisms to hedge their interest rate and FX risks. Despite a slight reduction in latter part of 2008, by June 2009, the size of OTC interest rate market was in excess of USD430 trillion (measured in terms of notional amount outstanding). It had nearly regained its level in the first half of 2008, and had grown by over 20% pa.

Despite the economic downturn, organisations were still concerned about their exposures to interest rates. In response, the interest rate derivative markets were still evolving to provide a wide range of innovative structures designed to meet the precise requirements of end-users.

This advanced derivatives course is designed to provide the latest practical and theoretical developments in the structuring, pricing and hedging of OTC interest rate derivatives such as swaps and options plus a variety of embedded combinations.

 

Attend this intensive and highly practical 4–day training course and learn how to:

Derive discount factors off cash, FRA, interest rate futures and swap markets

Construct and fit implied volatility surfaces from market data

Price, value and hedge advanced interest rate swap and option structures, including:

Bermudan swaptions

Callable range accruals

Target Accrual Redemption notes

Callable path dependent floating rate notes

Convexity-adjusted CMS swaps

Who should attend?

This course has been specifically designed for the benefit of:

• Senior Traders and Dealers
• Structurers
• Derivatives Sales Personnel
• Senior Risk Managers and Risk Controllers 
• Senior Risk Analysts
• Audit Managers
• Corporate Account Officers
• Asset Managers
• Corporate Treasury personnel

  It is assumed that delegates are familiar with basic concepts such as:
   Operations of the cash, FRA, futures and swap markets
   Use of discount factors to fair price swaps
   Basic swap structures
   Basic interest rate option pricing

 

 

Day 1

Pricing off a Futures Strip

· Building a discount curve
· Adjusting for the convexity bias
· Fair pricing of a short-term swap
· Demonstrating hedge effectiveness

Derivation of Zero Coupon Discount Factors and Forward Rates

 

• Brief reminder: bootstrapping and estimation of forward rates
• When does bootstrapping breakdown?
• Practical issues: interpolation, blending and smoothing
• What represents a “good” curve: an alternative approach
• Building a curve from a sparse market
• Demonstrating blending and smoothing algorithms

Pricing a Range of Non-generic Interest Rate Swaps

• Yield curve swaps such as constant maturity swaps
• Risk management characteristics

Mismatch Swaps

• What are the assumptions underlying the normal floating conventions
• Violating the conventions
• In-arrears, average-rate and compound swaps
• Overnight indexed swaps (OISs) such as EONIAs and RODS
• Turbo swaps
• Convexity adjustment of normal swaps
• Convexity adjustment of mismatch swaps
• Convexity adjustment of CMS

Day 2

Asset Packaging & a brief revision of IR options

Asset Packaging

• Creating different packages: premium, par, discount
• Creating a par maturity package
• What’s really going on?
• Arbitrage between bond and swap valuation methods: the credit implications
• Subsidisation effects
• Forward valuing: how to include your cost of funding
• Practical details

Simple Caps and Floors

A fundamental knowledge of Black’s model for pricing European-style interest rate options is assumed

• Generic, digital and spread caps
• Floors, collars, forward swaps and put-call parity
• Volatility surfaces and smiles
• Swaps with embedded caps and floors

• Taking advantage of the multi-period structure: barriers, choosers and periodic caps

Swaptions

• Pricing swaptions
• Swaption smile spaces
• Compatibility with cap pricing
• Swaps and embedded swaptions: pricing extendible and retractable swaps

Structured Securities

• A very brief overview of the structured securities market
• Description of some of the more common structures

Day 3

Modelling structured products with embedded options

Advanced Modelling Methodologies

• Analytic modelling
• Example: swapping a range accrual note

• Numerical modelling
• Outline: building an arbitrage-free forward interest rate tree
• Brief discussion on the inclusion of a smile effect
• Using the tree to model a complex security such as a Bermudan swap
• How to model a callable range accrual

• Simulation
• Building a BGM simulator
• Using the simulation to model a range of complex securities, such as:
• Path-dependent floating notes
• TARNs
• Index amortising swap
• Callable snowball
• Brief discussion on calibration and other techniques

Computer-based exercise

Modelling a structured security

Day 4

Risk Management of Swap and Option Portfolios

Risk Management

A fundamental knowledge of IR risk management is assumed

• How do interest rate curves behave?
• Some empirical results
• Risk management reporting:
• Construction of a delta and gamma reports for different curve movements
• The concept of an equivalence
• Construction of a volatility report
• Hedging swap and option portfolios
• The use of Taylor’s theorem
• Delta hedging
• Delta-gamma hedging
• Delta-gamma-volatility hedging
• Assessing hedge effectiveness using shocks and simulation
• Construction of a theta report
• Running a portfolio: funding and other issues
• Control frameworks

• An outline of Value-at-Risk
• Measuring VaR for a single risk factor
• Extending this to two, and multiple, risk factors
• Measuring VaR for a mixed swap/option portfolio

Summary of course

• Dr. Richard Flavell

  Richard Flavell

  Dr Richard Flavell is a consultant in the financial services industry. Until recently, he was Director of Financial Engineering at Lombard Risk Systems, one of the leading providers of derivative trading systems around the world. In this role he led a team responsible for the mathematical development of Lombard’s derivative trading and risk management systems. At the same time, he also undertook extensive client/product training and consultancy projects.

  Prior to his role at Lombard Risk, Dr Flavell was Head of Financial Engineering at ANZ Merchant Bank in London, and was Reader in Finance at The Management School, Imperial College, which is part of the University of London. He has worked with many banks and financial institutions around the world, advising them on their derivative and risk management activities. Dr Flavell has an international reputation for his expertise in swaps, other derivatives and risk management.

  Dr Flavell has also published widely in both academic and professional literature, his most recent book on Swaps and other Derivatives was published in December 2009, and he is currently writing a book on bank risk management. His approach to training is structured and practical. He has extensive experience and success in teaching both recent entrants to the derivatives markets and risk management, as well as highly experienced technical experts and market participants.

  Courses run by this instructor

  • Euromoney Swaps Masterclass
  • Credit Derivatives
  • London School of Bank Risk Management

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