Pierre Lequeux, Head of Currency Management, ABN AMRO Asset Management Ltd
"An asset to the market practitioner who has or intends to have dealings with the foreign exchange derivatives markets."

Glyn Holton, Contingency Analysis, April 2002
This one book, in a nutshell, defines the state of the art.

Salih N. Neftci, Graduate School, CUNY, New York, and Head FAME Certificate, Switzerland
An excellent source for learning modern tools as well as market practices and conventions. A treasure chest... at the end.

Glyn Holton, Contingency Analysis
"This one book, in a nutshell, defines the state of the art."

Pierre Lequeux, Head of Currency Management, ABN AMRO Asset Management Ltd
"Refreshingly fluid and accurate... The 27 chapters of this book will contribute toward a finer knowledge of this specialised field."

Salih N. Neftci, Graduate School, CUNY, New York, and Head FAME Certificate, Switzerland
"An excellent source for learning modern tools as well as market practices and conventions."

Book Description
Provides all the vital quantitative tools for foreign exchange options in a clear and logical manner. Covers the financial management of foreign exchange risk together with analysis of different methods for mitigating and controlling cross currency price differentials. Shows how both market risk and model risk can be managed by choosing a suitable pricing model. Presents products, pricing models, tools and strategies as well as numerical techniques for practical implementation Contains leading research, published for the first time, concerned primarily with FX derivatives.

About the Author
Jürgen Hakala has been head of quantitative research at Commerzbank Treasury and Financial Products for four years. His research areas are models and products for FX derivatives and hybrid interest rate and FX models. Computational finance is a central element for all his research. He received a Master's degree in theoretical physics from the University of Karlsruhe and a PhD in mathematics from the University of Bonn at the Institute for Neural Networks. Uwe Wystup is a quantitative research specialist at Commerzbank Treasury and Financial Products, Frankfurt and is a founder and manager of the website MathFinance and the MathFinance newsletter. Uwe has a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in valuing exotic options under short selling restraints. He also lectures on mathematical finance for Goethe University in Frankfurt and organizes the Frankfurt MathFinance Colloquium. Before that he worked for Deutsche Bank, Citibank, UBS and Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. Uwe has given many presentations at both universities and banks around the world.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Provides all the essenial quantitative tools for foreign exchange options in an understandable and logical manner.

Covers the financial management of foreign exchange risk together with analysis of different methods for mitigating and controlling cross currency price differentials.

Shows how both market risk and model risk can be managed by choosing a suitable price model.