by Abhishek Dutta | Apr 29, 2020 | Newsletter
Editorial Interview with Dr. Thorsten Schmidt, Senior Financial Engineer, MathFinance, and Professor for Mathematical Stochastics at University of Freiburg What are recent challenges in the insurance sector? The low interest rate regimes challenge insurance...
by Abhishek Dutta | Mar 6, 2020 | Newsletter
Editorial Vanna-Volga and the Greeks Many people ask us what’s so special about calculating Greeks in the vanna-volga approach. Isn’t it like calculating bumped values and ratios of differences? On the other hand, did you ever wonder, why for instance a...
by Ansua Dutta-Wystup | Feb 18, 2020 | Newsletter
Upcoming Events Postponement- MathFinance Conference 2020 1-2 September, 2020 Marriott Hotel, Canary Wharf, London In view of the uncertainty caused by the Coronavirus outbreak, MathFinance has decided to postpone its 20th annual MathFinance Finance conference to a...
by Uwe Wystup | Dec 30, 2019 | Newsletter
Editorial Vertically and Crosswise With constantly moving spots MathFinance has moved its Frankfurt office to Kaiserstraße 50, located between the central station and the old ECB building. Looking at the Frankfurt map, this was a vertically and crosswise move....
by Ansua Dutta-Wystup | Nov 27, 2019 | Newsletter
Editorial Can you replicate a call option with two European digital options? A European digital pays one unit of currency (domestic or foreign) at a predefined expiry date, if on that date the observed FX spot fixes above a predefined strike level. Can you statically...
by Ansua Dutta-Wystup | Oct 29, 2019 | Newsletter
Editorial First MathFinance Asia Conference in Singapore MathFinance Asia successfully hosted its 1st conference in Singapore at the Fullerton Hotel on 18th October 2019. The conference was well attended, with many attendees from over several regional and...
