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Mastering R for Quantitative Finance

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Mastering R for Quantitative Finance

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering R for Quantitative Finance
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we demonstrated how R can support the process of asset and liability management in a commercial bank. There is a wide range of tasks from data preparation to reporting, where the R programming language can help or solve repeating problems. However, we only gave a brief introduction about how to solve problems of interest rate and liquidity measurement. We also provided some examples about the statistical estimation of the interest rate sensitivity of non-maturity deposits. You can find practical knowledge about the following:

  • Generating cash-flow from bank portfolios and market data

  • Measuring and reporting tools for basic interest rate risk management

  • Measuring and reporting tools for basic liquidity risk management

  • Modeling the behavior of non-maturity deposits

We think that this chapter is an organic part of the bank management topics in this book. Asset and liability management brings a particular problem set of the bank management, and R, as an open-source language...