A Short History of Credit Spreads Charlie Browne on December 9, 2024November 18, 2025 Credit spreads are an important category of market data. They are used to indicate the level of default risk in… Read More →
Bond Valuation Charlie Browne on December 2, 2024November 18, 2025 Bond pricing is central to market data projects. When bond prices are not liquid, modeling and proxy approaches are required.… Read More →
Convexity and FRTB Charlie Browne on November 12, 2024November 18, 2025 Time series of market data are used to generate shocks in market risk systems. The impact of changes in rates… Read More →
Credit Risk and FRTB Charlie Browne on November 5, 2024November 18, 2025 Credit spreads of various types are loaded into market data systems. They are used primarily for onward publishing to valuation… Read More →
The Yield Curve and FRTB Charlie Browne on October 22, 2024November 18, 2025 Historical time series data is central to market risk and FRTB use cases such as value-at-risk and expected shortfall. The… Read More →
Bootstrapping the Yield Curve Charlie Browne on October 9, 2024November 18, 2025 A market data centralization project is often structured so that the rates that are used to build the yield curve… Read More →
IBOR Transition and its Impact Charlie Browne on September 18, 2024November 18, 2025 In recent years market data analysis requires an understanding of the IBOR based rates, their risk-free-rate (RFR) replacements and IBOR… Read More →
Interpreting the Heston Model Charlie Browne on September 3, 2024November 18, 2025 The time-series of stock prices and the market-implied volatilities of stock prices are examples of market data that needs to… Read More →
Risk Factor Transformations in FRTB Charlie Browne on August 28, 2024November 18, 2025 Successful market data projects require an understanding of how market data will be transformed. This week’s note provides an overview… Read More →