Equity markets
Sponsored statement: The implied volatility surface in the presence of dividends
Standard Bank quantitative analyst Roelof Sheppard shows how absolute and proportional dividend payments give rise to arbitrage constraints on the implied volatility surface
Sponsored statement: Sunrise brokers - a winning formula
Launched in 1991, Sunrise Brokers is a dominant force in the derivatives space. In this year's Risk interdealer rankings, Sunrise takes first place - for the third year running - in equity derivatives and dominates structured derivatives. Claude Amar,…
Calibration of local stochastic volatility models to market smiles
Pierre Henry-Labordère introduces a new technique for calibrating local volatility extensions of arbitrary multi-factor stochastic volatility models to market smiles. Although approximate, this technique is both fast and accurate. The procedure is…
Warranting approval?
The US Treasury has come under fire for allowing banks to repurchase warrants held under its Troubled Asset Relief Program at a discount. Is the criticism justified? And what effect is an auction of JP Morgan's warrants likely to have? Mark Pengelly…
Peaks and greeks
Cover story
Lack of liquidity means a comeback for vol swaps
Dynamic replication of the payoff of volatility swaps on single stocks in illiquid markets is cheaper and easier than replicating variance swaps payoffs, dealers say.
Source links to new Dow Jones long/short index
Source has launched 18 exchange-traded funds linked to the Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Optimised Super Sector index range. The index range was created by the ETF provider and DJ and represents a new generation of funds created to deliver exposure to improved…
Trading and one-off gains lift bank profits
Trading activities and one-off gains helped US banks record positive results during the week ending July 17, despite a continuing deterioration in traditional lending businesses, analysts said.
Negative repos distort dividend hedging strategies
Abnormally low repurchase rates are forcing banks to hedge their dividend exposures with swaps instead of forwards.
Let the right one in
Structured Products
Toughing it out
Equity derivatives
Avoiding dividend meltdown
Dealers are starting to pay closer attention to dividend risk housed on their exotic books after many incurred sizeable losses last year. What are banks doing differently and can another dividend meltdown be avoided? Matt Cameron reports
Tarp warrant sales could drive down vol on financials
The US Treasury's plan to dispose of warrants in banks held under the Troubled Assets Relief Program (Tarp) could have a significant impact on the options market, according to analysts.
SG launches tradeable dividend exposure in UK
Société Générale (SG) has launched four new certificates on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) giving exposure to the dividends of companies included in the FTSE 100 and Dow Jones Eurostoxx 50 indexes.
Nomura offers protective safeguards with Flexis
Nomura has launched Flexis, a new structured product that offers protective safeguards to calm the default, valuation and liquidity concerns of investors. The predefined process for the resolution if an arranger defaults - in the form of resilience…
Vienna Stock Exchange offers fundamental blue chip exposure
The Vienna Stock Exchange (VSE) has launched a new fundamental version of the Austrian Traded Index (ATX), the benchmark Austrian equity index. The index uses a new method of weighting instead of the traditional market capitalisation model to take into…
Banks repay $68bn in Tarp funds to US Treasury
Ten of the largest US financial institutions that have received public funds under the Troubled Assets Relief Program (Tarp) scheme are to pay back $68 billion after they were approved to reimburse the funds to the federal government yesterday.