Market Data Setup

Market Data Setup 

Define all rates and prices imported from market data supplier needed to perform fixing and market valuations. Index, FRA, Swap interests and currency basis spreads. Normally this is already pre-defined for some currencies (the most common) when the system is delivered.  

Here you also define credit spread curves that you want to use for market valuation of your debt or asset portfolio.

Se also  Combined curves

Curve definition  

Choose the market data that should build up the different curves that should be used when doing market valuation of the instrument.  

Example: 

"Ibor" rates up to 6 months 

FRA rates from 6 months – 2 years 

Swap interest rates from 2 years – 15 years 

Index

Used for Interest rates with tenor less than one year.

Interest form - describes which form the imported interest rates are in.

'Not set' equals Simple.

All imported interest rates are converted to Simple rates by Treasury systems and then used in calculations.

Adjustments of imported rates

Possible to define adjustment settings for imported market data

Interest adjustment (IA)  - enter as a number (system.decimal)

Interest adjustment decimals (IAD) - Number of decimals for the nominal interest rate used on the transaction.

Operator (OP) - Add, Subtract, Multiply or Divide

Example 1: Market rate = 3%, IA = 1,013889, IAD = 6, OP = Multiply -> 0,03 * 1,013889 = 0,03041667 rounded to 3,0417%

Example 2: Market rate = 3%, IA = 0,00324, IAD = 4, OP = Add-> 0,03 + 0,00324= 0,03324 rounded to 3,32%

Swaps

Swap rates longer than 1 year

Example of a credit spread curve