Review
"An asset to the market practitioner who has or intends to have dealings with the foreign exchange derivatives markets." --
Pierre Lequeux, Head of Currency Management, ABN AMRO Asset Management Ltd"An excellent source for learning modern tools as well as market practices and conventions." --
Salih N. Neftci, Graduate School, CUNY, New York, and Head FAME Certificate, Switzerland"Refreshingly fluid and accurate... The 27 chapters of this book will contribute toward a finer knowledge of this specialised field." --
Pierre Lequeux, Head of Currency Management, ABN AMRO Asset Management Ltd"This one book, in a nutshell, defines the state of the art." --
Glyn Holton, Contingency AnalysisAn excellent source for learning modern tools as well as market practices and conventions. A treasure chest... at the end. --
Salih N. Neftci, Graduate School, CUNY, New York, and Head FAME Certificate, SwitzerlandThis one book, in a nutshell, defines the state of the art. --
Glyn Holton, Contingency Analysis, April 2002
About the Author
Jurgen 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.