Sample Projects:

Development of an FX volatility surface, used by different banks for model validation and front-office pricing

Front-office documentation of equity derivatives models for a large German bank as a requirement of ECB

Risk model review for a large French bank as a requirement of the FED

Development and design of state-of-the art risk concepts for OTC FX, cross currency and interest rate swaps for a large German Exchange

Implementation of a local volatility based pricing tool using finite differences for exotic equity derivatives for a large bank in Germany

Implementation of a multi curve framework incorporating OIS discounting, cross-currency and tenor basis for a large German bank

Backtesting of risk measures for counterpart default events and developing and implementing tests for establishing an regression supported Monte Carlo method for counterpart credit risk purposes for a tier 1 investment bank in London, also covering preparation of documents, model description, test criteria and test framework for submission to model validation

Independent model validation for Murex SLV model by our own independent implementation, verifying correctness, numerical stability and smoothness of Greeks including reports in Risk Magazine and Derivatives Week

Independent model review of Murex logical space (interpolation of the FX volatility surface)

Valuation and risk analysis of embedded currency exchange options in roll-over loans for a German Landesbank

Development and Implementation of a tailor-made pricing library for live quotes of FX bonus certificates for a leading bank in Germany

Survey on volatility as investment – crash protection using calendar spreads of variance swaps for Lupus alpha Asset Management

A statistical survey and simulation of the performance of funds with and without guarantee for Franklin Templeton

Development and implementation of a tool to price exotic products like discretely monitored partial lookback options for a hedge fund in London

A statistical survey and simulation of the performance of various funds-linked retirement provision plans with guarantees (Riesterrente) for EURO-Magazin

Implementation of pricing, hedging and backtesting tools for Currency, Equity and Interest Rate Derivatives, including model development, prototyping, processing of market data and integration in risk management systems, e.g. Murex, Front Arena

A statistical survey and simulation of the performance of various retirement savings plans for DWS and AXA.

Independent vetting of FX structured products for a US based corporate advisory firm

Syllabi and test question database for the modules FX/FX options and advanced derivatives of the ACI-Diploma