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Preface xi
Innovation in Finance Through Derivative Instruments
Financial Innovation 3
Service Science 3
Motivation for Financial Innovation 5
The Technology Side of Service Science 8
Entrepreneurship 12
Paper Ships: A Case Study 16
Forward Freight Agreements and the Macromarkets 19
Risk Management 22
Derivatives 29
Derivatives Definition by the FASB 29
Derivatives Definition by the IASB 33
Notional Principal Amount and Underlying 35
Options, Futures, Forwards, and Swaps in a Nutshell 39
Exotic Derivatives 43
Synthetic Financial Instruments 45
Structured Financial Instruments 49
Strategic Use of Derivatives 53
Capitalizing on Creativity 53
The Customization of Financial Products 56
Over-the-Counter Derivatives Transactions 59
Risk Appetite and Risk Aversion 63
Learning a Lesson from George Soros 67
Learning a Lesson from Henry Kaufman 69
High Technology for Processes and Products 72
Hedging 75
The Search for Effective Hedges 75
Hedging Practices 78
Types of Hedging Instruments 82
Right and Wrong Hedges 84
Management Intent 88
Hedge Accounting 91
Beware of Assumed Exposure and Illiquidity
Liquidity, Solvency, and Derivatives Exposure 97
Liquidity and Solvency 97
A Quadrillion in Derivatives Exposure 100
Unexpected Consequences 104
The Criticality of Market Positions 108
Free Fall of the Bond Market in 1994: A Case Study 111
Bubbles and Ponzi Games 113
Impact of Megamergers on Exposure 116
The Daunting Task of Capital Adequacy 121
Capital Adequacy Dynamics 121
Management Accounting for Recognized but Not Realized Gains and Losses 124
Capital at Risk and Level of Confidence 128
Quantitative Impact Studies, and Second Thoughts about Capital Adequacy 133
Basel II's Unexpected Headwinds 136
The Effect of Leveraging on Capital Adequacy 141
The Origin of Legislation for Marking-to-Market 144
Options
The Use of Options 149
The Strategic Use of Options 149
Intrinsic Value and Time Value 152
Styles of Options: American, European, Asian, and Others 155
Complex Options 158
Straddles, Strangles, and Butterflies 162
Interest Rate, Yield-Based, and Foreign Currency Options 165
Option Spreading; Long Calls, Short Calls 169
Option Hedges 172
Risks Associated with Options 175
The Pricing of Options 179
Pricing Derivatives: A General Perspective 179
Object of Prediction and Effect of Volatility 182
Options Premiums and Options Pricing 186
Binomial and Lognormal Models 189
The Black-Scholes Model 194
Advantages and Shortcomings of the Black-Scholes Model 197
Testing the Black-Scholes Model 200
Option Traders, Buyers, and Writers 203
Trading Derivative Instruments 203
Options Trading 206
Flexibly Structured Options 209
Buyers' Strategies 211
Writing Options 214
Trading in Synthetic Options 217
Spreads Trading 219
Exercise, Settlement, and Technical Support 222
Risk Control for Options
The Greeks: Delta, Gamma, Theta, Kappa, Rho 227
The Challenge of Measuring Risk and Return 227
The Greeks in a Nutshell 230
Delta Hedging 233
Gamma Hedging 237
Theta, Kappa, Rho 239
Credit Risk and Market Risk with Options 243
Selling Market Risk and Buying Credit Risk 243
Market Risk Control in a Nutshell 246
GM's Put Options for Fiat Auto: A Case Study 250
Credit Risk Control in a Nutshell 251
Credit Improvement and Credit Deterioration 254
The Mispricing of Credit Risk 257
Credit-Risk-Free Debt Options 261
Credit Spreads and Credit Options 264
Futures, Forwards, and Swaps
Futures and Forwards 271
Futures, Forwards, and the Investor 271
Futures and Margin Requirements 274
Futures Trading: A Case Study with Oil 276
Price Discovery through Futures 279
Forward Contracts 282
Forward Positions: An Example with FRAs 285
Synthetic Futures 289
Warrants 290
Swaps 295
Swaps Defined 295
Players, Milestones, and Flavors of Standard Swaps 298
Interest Rate Swaps 301
Swap Spreads 303
Swaptions 305
Asset Swaps and Equity Swaps 308
Total Return Swaps 311
Credit Default Swaps 313
Differential Swaps 316
Risks Assumed with Swaps 318
Interest Rate Risk Management through Derivatives 321
Being Ahead of the Interest Rate Curve 321
The Term Structure of Interest Rates 325
The Contribution of Interest Rate Derivatives 329
Accounting for Interest Rate Derivatives 332
Internal Interest Rate Swaps 334
The Synergy between Interest Rates and Currency Rates 338
Interest Rate Risk and Its Measurement 342
Interest Rate Spreads Associated with Credit Risk 345
Index 349
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