Insights
Capital Markets
A New Market Reality: Lessons from a Defining Year in a Turbulent Decade
Future historians will come to see 2022 as a year of extremes and one of the most consequential years for markets in a turbulent decade. Trading desks working across asset classes and around the world have been put to the test, navigating what would once have been described as once-in-a-generation market events.
TS Imagine EMS Integrates with Appital’s Bookbuilding Platform Ahead of Launch
EMS integration automates historically manual processes, unlocking hard-to-find liquidity for the buyside community.
Research Summary: Prime Brokerage, Margin, Collateral and Data
This summary is based on research conducted between February and March 2021 with 20 banks looking at current trends and priorities for Prime Brokers in the Margin, Collateral and Data areas.
Round Table Summary: Prime Brokerage, Margin, Collateral and Data
Offering valuable insight into the priorities and challenges facing prime brokers, broker dealers and clearers, this report is a summary of the discussion during the Margin, Collateral and Data Round Table, sponsored by TS Imagine on Thursday 25th March 2021.
Meltdowns, Margin Calls, and a Risk-Oriented Mindset
If a firm does not have all of its positions modeled on the same risk platform, it cannot know its total risk. But strong tools and practices can help sell-side and buy-side firms alike to avoid creating dangerous conditions.
The Angle of Coincidence
In times of stress in the markets, not only does volatility increase for individual assets, cross-asset correlations can increase dramatically as well. This results in a “double whammy” for a typical portfolio because the portfolio’s volatility increases due to both effects.
How a Stressful Election Could Stress Your Portfolios
Most market observers agree that the many uncertainties swirling around the US Presidential election are likely to generate volatility in the US equity market that could last well beyond November 3rd.
The Lognormal Bridge
This note discusses the use of a “lognormal bridge” to estimate interest rate statistics and to calculate HVAR.
TS Imagine’s Response to Negative Oil Prices
It was a historic moment to be remembered when crude oil plunged into negative price territory on Monday 20th April 2020. TS Imagine’s Data, Technical, Development and Professional Services teams stood ready to assist users in ensuring they continued to correctly calculate risk metrics across commodity trading books. While negative prices are not a new thing in financial markets, it was the first time for crude oil to exhibit such behaviour. Standard pricing models (Black Scholes) for commodity future options are not designed to handle negative underlying prices. As such, TS Imagine applied an ‘early roll’ of the front month contract of May crude to the June expiry as the negative settle price was confirmed.
Past Rolling Hills to Smoother Pastures
How to eliminate the distortion effect of rolling futures contracts on continuity time series returns.
TS Imagine’s Pandemic Plan for COVID-19
The health and safety of our communities including our employees, clients and partners are of critical importance to us. TS Imagine has taken proactive steps to protect employees during the outbreak. It is the goal of TS Imagine during any such time period to strive to operate effectively, ensure that all essential services are continuously provided and that employees are safe within the workplace.
Imagining the Impact of a Hard Landing in China
As China confronts numerous internal and external challenges from slowing economic growth, disruption in Hong Kong and a volatile trade conflict with the United States, it may be prudent to assess and understand the risk a hard landing for the Chinese economy may pose to your portfolio.
Pricing Rainbow Options
Responding to growing client interest, this post highlights the use of TS Imagine’s Monte Carlo Generator to price multi-asset best-of/worst-of options (aka Rainbow Options).
Fixed Income: IR Hedging Matrix & Portfolio Analytics
TS Imagine’s interactive interest rate hedging tool, the IR Hedging Matrix, enables users to evaluate interest rate risks associated with any portfolio, book, or ledger, and returns the number of hedge contracts needed to hedge the interest rate risk.
