Financial Models in Production

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. General Introduction

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   Pages 1-5

3. Black & Scholes (BS) Model

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   Pages 7-13

4. Local Volatility Model

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   Pages 15-37

5. Market Model P&L Explain

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   Pages 39-53

6. Back Matter

   Pages 55-61

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This book provides a hands-on guide to how financial models are actually implemented and used in practice, on a daily basis, for pricing and risk-management purposes. It shows how to put these models into use in production while minimizing the cost of implementation and maximizing robustness and control. Addressing some of the most important and cutting-edge issues, it describes how to build the necessary models in order to risk manage all the costs involved in options fabrication within the world of equity derivatives and hybrids. This is achieved by extending classical models and improving them in order to account for complex features. 


The book is primarily aimed at market practitioners (traders, risk managers, risk control, top managers), as well as Masters students in Quantitative/Mathematical Finance. It will also be useful for instructors hoping to enrich their courses with practical examples. The prerequisites are basic stochastic calculus and a general knowledge of financial markets and financial derivatives. 

• Production
• Models
• Pricing & Risk Management
• P&L Explanation
• Model Extension

• Quantitative Research Equity, Natixis, Paris, France

  Othmane Kettani, Adil Reghai

Adil Reghai graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines de Paris. He worked as a quant for two decades developing models, algorithms and designing risk systems. He is now head of equity and commodity derivatives research quant, and a guest lecturer at SKEMA Business School. He is the author of two books.

Othmane Kettani holds a Master of Research and a PhD in Finance from Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University, as well as a University Degree in Business Law from Paris II Panthéon-Assas University. He also graduated from Supélec and ESCP Europe. He works now as equity derivatives research quant at Natixis, and is a part-time lecturer at Paris I University (Master of Research Financial Markets and Risk Management, Course Option Pricing Theory).

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