• Date arithmetic’s, quote types of interest rate instruments
• The interbank market and reference rates, including negative rates
• Valuation and modeling of IR instruments; bonds, FRN, FRA, forwards, futures, swaps, CDS, caps/floors and others
• Bootstrapping and how to create interest rate curves from prices of traded instruments
• Risk measures of IR instruments
• Option Adjusted Spread and embedded options
• The term structure equation, martingale measures and stochastic processes of interest rates; Vasicek, Ho-Lee, Hull-While, CIR
• Numerical models; Black-Derman-Toy and forward induction using Arrow-Debreu prices and Newton–Raphson in 2 dimension
• The Heath-Jarrow-Morton framework
• Forward measures and general option pricing models
• Black log-normal and, normal model for derivatives, market models and managing exotics instruments
• Pricing before and after the financial crisis, collateral discounting, multiple curve framework, cheapest-to-deliver curves, CVA, DVA and FVA