Managing Currency Options in Financial Institutions

Download or read book Managing Currency Options in Financial Institutions written by Yat-Fai Lam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book introduces how we can manage currency options with the Vanna-Volga method. It describes the underlying theories and applications of the Vanna-Volga method in managing currency options of a financial institution, conforming to the Basel III regulatory requirements which demand a high consistency between the valuation and market risk calculation methodologies of financial instruments. The book illustrates with technical details to shed understanding on the major applications, including valuation, volatility recovery, dynamic portfolio replication and value-at-risk. Those who study finance, risk management, quantitative finance or similar areas, as well as practitioners who wish to learn how to valuate, hedge and manage the market risk of currency options with more advanced models and techniques will find the book of invaluable use.