Brazilian derivatives and securities : pricing and risk management of FX and interest-rate portfolios for local and global markets / Marcos Carreira (Quantitative Finance Practitioner, Brazil), Richard J. Brostowicz (Executive Director and Head of Brazil Quants, Banco Morgan Stanely, Brazil)

The Brazilian financial markets operate in a very different way to G7 markets. Key differences include onshore and offshore markets, exponential rates, business days day-counts, and price formation from the futures markets (instead of the cash markets). This book provides a quantitative, applied gui...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Authors: Carreira, Marcos (Author), Brostowicz, Richard J. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Financial archaeology
  • 2. We mean business
  • 3. Interesting BRL Interest Rates
  • 4. BRL Interest Rate Market and Credit Risk
  • 5. A man with two clocks ... Foreign Exchange in Brazil
  • 6. And the even more interesting USD onshore interest rates
  • 7. Too many options?
  • 8. The Mountain goes to ... Foreign Exchange Contracts offshore
  • 9. Start from where? Constructing markets for FX Forwards, Futures, Onshore USD Interest Rates and Offshore instruments
  • 10. Offshore IR Products based on CDI fixings
  • 11. The Dual case
  • US Libor onshore swaps
  • 12. FX trading (Interest Rate and Fixing) Market and Credit Risk
  • 13. A skewed perspective of the world: FX Options
  • 14. Some cash is better than nothing
  • what you need to know about cash products
  • 15. Index of choice ... Inflation-Linked Products and Curves
  • 16. Microstructure of the listed derivatives
  • 17. Unlucky end: On the obsolescence of products and books.