Over-the-counter derivatives have contributed significantly to the effectiveness and efficiency of the international financial system but also entail significant counterparty credit risk. Collateralization is one of the most important and widespread credit risk mitigation techniques used in derivatives transactions. Ho…
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This paper provides intuition on the relationship of accrual and mark-to-market valuation for cash and forward interest rate trades. Discounted cashflow valuation is compared to spread-based valuation for forward trades, which explains the trader's view on valuation. This is followed by Taylor series approximation for …
We consider the problem of decomposing monetary risk in the presence of a fully traded market in {\it some} risks. We show that a mark-to-market approach to pricing leads to such a decomposition if the risk measure is time-consistent in the sense of Delbaen.
They Still Haven't Told Youq-fin.GN
Quant firms manipulate stock markets overnight and intraday.
problem Unexplained consistent overnight and intraday returns in stock markets.
method Analysis of trading patterns and market movements.
result Large quant firms expand and contract portfolios to create mark-to-market gains.
Agent maximizes utility with pathwise constraint on portfolio value.
problem Maximizing utility with a pathwise constraint on portfolio value.
method Max-plus decomposition for supermartingales, Black-Scholes-Merton model.
result Explicit form of optimal terminal wealth and process involved.
Model shows how banks' fears of future defaults can cause immediate financial stress.
problem How banks' future default worries cause immediate financial stress.
method Dynamic interbank model with endogenous distress contagion, mark-to-market valuation adjustment, forward-backward approach.
result Distress contagion acts as a stochastic volatility term leading to clustering and down-market spikes.
Extends micro-price concept to RFQ markets for fair pricing.
problem Valuing securities in illiquid RFQ markets.
method Bidimensional Markov-modulated Poisson processes for liquidity.
result Introduces Fair Transfer Price for fair securities valuation.
Regulations impose idiosyncratic capital and funding costs for holding derivatives. Capital requirements are costly because derivatives desks are risky businesses; funding is costly in part because regulations increase the minimum funding tenor. Idiosyncratic costs mean no single measure makes derivatives martingales f…
This paper addresses credit valuation adjustment with a new closeout convention.
problem Accurate estimation of financial claim value considering counterparty credit risk.
method Theoretical and computational analysis of a nonlinear valuation system using neural networks.
result A neural network-based algorithm effectively solves the high-dimensional nonlinear valuation system.
The purpose of this paper is to design an algorithm for the computation of the counterparty risk which is competitive in regards of a brute force "Monte-Carlo of Monte-Carlo" method (with nested simulations). This is achieved using marked branching diffusions describing a Galton-Watson random tree. Such an algorithm le…
Optimal market making improves liquidity in prediction markets.
problem Efficient price discovery in prediction markets.
method Stochastic control framework for optimal market making.
result Optimal market quotes improve downside protection and profit.
Solves ambiguity in incomplete markets by minimizing price measure entropy.
problem Ambiguity in pricing incomplete markets.
method Minimizes the entropy of the price measure from the economic measure, subject to mark-to-market constraints.
result Resolves ambiguity and provides a consistent pricing measure.
Collateral-Enhanced Default Riskq-fin.RM
Changes in collateralization have been implicated in significant default (or near-default) events during the financial crisis, most notably with AIG. We have developed a framework for quantifying this effect based on moving between Merton-type and Black-Cox-type structural default models. Our framework leads to a singl…
A new challenge to quantitative finance after the recent financial crisis is the study of credit valuation adjustment (CVA), which requires modeling of the future values of a portfolio. In this paper, following recent work in [Weinan E(2017), Han(2017)], we apply deep learning to attack this problem. The future values …
Biondi et al. (2012) develop an analytical model to examine the emergent dynamic properties of share market price formation over time, capable to capture important stylized facts. These latter properties prove to be sensitive to regulatory regimes for fundamental information provision, as well as to market confidence c…
The practice of valuation by marking-to-market with current trading prices is seriously flawed. Under leverage the problem is particularly dramatic: due to the concave form of market impact, selling always initially causes the expected leverage to increase. There is a critical leverage above which it is impossible to e…
Myopic optimization outperforms reinforcement learning in portfolio management, leading to lower returns and higher risks.
problem Reinforcement learning strategies in portfolio management yield lower or negative returns and higher risks compared to myopic optimization.
method Modeling execution/liquidation frictions with mark-to-market accounting, using Malliavin calculus to derive policy gradients and risk shadow price, and quantifying phantom profit.
result Myopic optimization outperforms reinforcement learning in portfolio management, leading to better returns and lower risks.
Deep learning method improves risk assessment for small loan portfolios.
problem Measuring name concentration risk in small loan portfolios.
method Deep learning approach using Monte Carlo simulations with importance sampling.
result New method outperforms existing analytical methods for small portfolios.
This paper studies a valuation framework for financial contracts subject to reference and counterparty default risks with collateralization requirement. We propose a fixed point approach to analyze the mark-to-market contract value with counterparty risk provision, and show that it is a unique bounded and continuous fi…
In this paper, we employ the Heston stochastic volatility model to describe the stock's volatility and apply the model to derive and analyze the optimal trading strategies for dealers in a security market. We also extend our study to option market making for options written on stocks in the presence of stochastic volat…
In recent years, the counterparty credit risk measure, namely the default risk in \emph{Over The Counter} (OTC) derivatives contracts, has received great attention by banking regulators, specifically within the frameworks of \emph{Basel II} and \emph{Basel III.} More explicitly, to obtain the related risk figures, one …
Gaussian Process Regression for Derivative Portfolio Modeling and Application to CVA Computationsq-fin.CP
Modeling counterparty risk is computationally challenging because it requires the simultaneous evaluation of all the trades with each counterparty under both market and credit risk. We present a multi-Gaussian process regression approach, which is well suited for OTC derivative portfolio valuation involved in CVA compu…
We develop a framework for price-mediated contagion in financial systems where banks are forced to liquidate assets to satisfy a risk-weight based capital adequacy requirement. In constructing this modeling framework, we introduce a two-tier pricing structure: the volume weighted average price that is obtained by any b…
This paper optimizes perpetual contract liquidity by accounting for funding rates.
problem Optimal liquidity provision for perpetual contracts with stochastic funding rates.
method Formulated a control problem, solved with a HJB scheme, and calibrated on real data.
result Funding-aware market making improves performance and reduces inventory risk.
New method calibrates LV surfaces for exotic derivatives with smoother, more stable Greeks.
problem Challenges in LV calibration leading to spiky surfaces and unstable Greeks.
method Automatic local regression to pre-process market observables and smooth LV surfaces.
result Significantly smoother LV surfaces and greatly improved Greek stability with negligible additional cost.
How Digital Asset Treasury Companies Can Survive Bear Markets: The Case of the Strategy and Bitcoinq-fin.GN
Survival strategy for crypto firms in bear markets using BTC-to-sats payments rail.
problem Downside risk in crypto reserves during bear markets.
method Conservative treasury policy, operating line monetizing holdings, BTC-to-sats payments rail.
result Sustained mNAV premium through cycles with disclosed KPIs.
Study on costs of manipulating AMM-based price oracles.
problem Cost of manipulation in AMM-based on-chain price oracles.
method Analyzes the robustness of AMM-based oracles to strategic manipulation, considering different aggregation methods and market conditions.
result Manipulation costs depend on the total quote depth and can be minimized by optimal liquidity weights.
Paper presents a modular RL framework for Forex trading, addressing limitations of prior studies.
problem Challenges in applying RL to Forex trading, including unrealistic environments, simplified rewards, and restricted action spaces.
method Integrates three components: a friction-aware execution engine, a decomposable reward architecture, and a discrete action interface.
result Empirical evaluation shows strong non-monotonic reward interactions and optimal Sharpe ratio with the full reward configuration.
Tail Risk Management with Puts and Trend Following: A CVaR Framework for Crashes and Drawdownsq-fin.MF
This paper develops a CVaR framework for managing tail risks using puts and trend-following strategies.
problem Managing tail risks, especially crashes and drawdowns, requires different forms of protection.
method Develops a continuous-time CVaR framework that integrates long out-of-the-money put options and systematic trend-following overlays.
result Shows how convex crash protection and drawdown protection can be optimally combined in a mandate.
Paper introduces a new method for efficient portfolio risk quantification.
problem Efficiently quantify risk in large portfolios with many trades and few dominant risk factors.
method Combines Fourier-cosine series with tensor decomposition techniques for dimension reduction.
result Achieves relative errors below 0.1% with significant runtime improvement.
This paper tests yield curve generators for property-casualty insurers.
problem Quantifying interest-rate risk for property-casualty insurers with high bond holdings.
method Develops and tests yield curve generators to quantify bond-value changes.
result Tests yield curve generators against known distributional properties of yield curves.