An interest rate option is a contract giving the beneficiary the right but not an obligation to pay or receive a specific interest rate on a predetermined principle for a set interval. Writing in accessible and non-technical language, the author reviews all the commonly-used interest rate option models, showing how they can be applied and implemented. This book is aimed at market professionals and postgraduate students internationally, working with interest rate dependent options, who find a barrier to entry in the very technical nature of current academic and research literature. Mathematical derivations of the models are only reported in so far as they enhance the understanding of the model - the emphasis is on accessibility and ease of understanding.

In his new book, Riccardo Rebonato introduces financial professionals to the practical and subtle use of the concepts of volatility (the degree of randomness in a price movement) and correlation (the relationship between the changes in value of two financial assets) in the pricing of complex options. By explaining this approach in clear and accessible terms, the author provides traders, risk managers, financial professionals and students with the tools to undertake an effective investigation of option pricing models both at the qualitative and quantitative level. Dr Riccardo Rebonato is Head of Group Market Risk for the NatWest Group, London, UK. He holds Doctorates in Nuclear Engineering and Science of Materials/Solid State Physics. He has recently been appointed Lecturer in Mathematical Finance at Oxford University. Prior to joining NatWest, he was, at the same time, Head of the Complex Derivatives Trading desk and of the Complex Derivatives Research Group at Barclays Capital, where he worked for nine years.
Before that he was a Research Fellow in Physics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford He is the author of the highly successful book Interest-Rate Option Models (Wiley, second edition 1998) and has published several papers on finance in academic journals. He is a regular speaker at conferences world-wide.