Pricing Non-Deliverable FX Forwards with Stochastic Rates and Correlation
Summary
The document derives a pricing expression for a non-deliverable FX forward whose fixing date precedes settlement. It rewrites the discounted payoff using the domestic forward measure associated with the fixing date, then models the exchange rate and domestic and foreign short rates with correlated Brownian drivers in a Hull–White framework.
The method expresses the fixing-date exchange rate through its forward exchange rate and a Gaussian stochastic integral. It combines that integral with the domestic bond price at fixing, so the expectation can be evaluated from the exponential moment of a jointly Gaussian variable. The resulting formula includes rate volatility, FX volatility, correlations, and the domestic bond maturity exposure. The derivation is model-specific: it assumes deterministic volatility and mean-reversion parameters and Hull–White short-rate dynamics. It offers an analytic route under those assumptions, not a general formula for arbitrary rate or FX models.
Key ideas
- Changing to the domestic forward measure at the fixing date simplifies the discounted payoff expectation.
- The forward exchange rate and domestic bond price at fixing depend on correlated Gaussian risk factors.
- The expectation can be evaluated using the exponential moment of the combined Gaussian terms.
- The closed-form expression relies on Hull–White short rates and deterministic model parameters.
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# FX Forward pricing with correlation between FX and Zero-Cupon
# FX Forward pricing with correlation between FX and Zero-Cupon
I would like to extend my question about about FX Forward rates in stochastic interest rate setup: FX forward with stochastic interest rates pricing
We consider a FX process $X_t = X_0 \exp( \int_0^t(r^d_s-r^f_s)ds -\frac{\sigma^2}{2}t+ \sigma W_t^2)$ where $r^d$ and $r^f$ are stochastic processes not independent of the Brownian motion $W$. The domestic risk-neutral measure is denoted by $\mathbb Q^d$.
The domestic and foreign bank accounts are $\beta^d$ and $\beta^f $ respectively. The domestic and foreign zero-coupon bond prices of maturity $T$ at time $t$ are respective $B_d(t,T)$ and $B_f(t,T)$.
The domestic bond follows the SDE
$$ \frac{dB_d(t,T)}{B_d(t,T)} = r^d_t \ dt + \sigma(t,T) \ dW^1_t $$
with deterministic initial conditions $B_d(0,T)$. The drift and volatility functions in the SDEs are all deterministic functions and $W^1$ and $W^2$ are standard Brownian motions such that $\langle W^1, W^2\rangle_t =\rho \ dt$.
Now consider domestic $\tau$-forward measure $\mathbb Q^{d,\tau}$ $$ \left. \frac{d\mathbb Q^{d,\tau}}{d\mathbb Q^d}\right|_{\mathcal F_t} = \frac{B_d(t,\tau)}{\beta_t^dB_d(0,\tau)} = \mathcal E_t \left( \int_0 ^. \sigma(s,\tau) \ dW^1_s\right) $$
and the $\mathbb Q^{\tau}$-Brownian motions $$ W^{1,\tau}_. := W^1_. + \int_0 ^. \sigma(s,\tau) \ ds $$
$$ W^{2,\tau}_. := W^2_. + \rho \int_0 ^. \sigma(s,\tau) \ ds $$
Question
> I would like to calculate the non-deliverable FX forward rate. Since the fixing date $t_f$ is such that $t_f< T$, where $T$ is the settlement date, it implies to pass by the calculation following expectation: $$\mathbb E^{\mathbb Q^d} _t \left[ \exp(-\int_t^T r^d_s ~ds)\ X_{t_f}\right]$$
I can get to this point
$$ \mathbb E^{\mathbb Q^d} _t \left[ \exp(-\int_t^T r^d_s ~ds)\ X_{t_f}\right]= B_d(t,t_f)\ \mathbb E^{\mathbb Q^{d,t_f}}_t\left[ B_b(t_f,T)X_{t_f}\right]. $$
From that point I am struggling to get through all the calculations. Is there a smart way to compute the last expectation?
## Answer by Gordon (score 4)
https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/28360
> We consider the expectation \begin{align*} E^{Q_d^{t_f}} \Big(P_d(t_f, T) X_{t_f} \mid \mathcal{F}_t \Big), \end{align*} where $Q_d^{t_f}$ is the $t_f$-forward measure, and $P_d(t_f, T)$ is the price at $t_f$ of a domestic zero-coupon bond with maturity $T$. Note that $P_d(t_f, T) X_{t_f}$ is the value at time $t_f$ of the process \begin{align*} P_d(t, T) X_t \frac{P_f(t, t_f)}{P_d(t, t_f)}, \end{align*} where $P_f(t, t_f)$ is the price at $t$ of a foreign zero-coupon bond with maturity $t_f$. If we model the bond prices directly, then we need dynamics for the four processes $X_t$, $P_d(t, t_f)$, $P_d(t, T)$, and $P_f(t, t_f)$. For simplicity, we model the short rates based on the Hull-White interest rate model with corresponding correlated dynamics for $X_t$, $r_t^f$, and $r_t^d$.
Let $X_t$ be the instantaneous exchange rate from one unit foreign currency to units of domestic currency, and $r^d_t$ and $r^f_t$ be the domestic and the equity's denominated foreign short interest rates at time $t$. Moreover, let \begin{align*} \Xi= (\rho_{i, j})_{i,j=1}^3 \end{align*} be the correlation matrix of the driving Brownian motions of the 3$-$dimensional random process $\{(X_t, r^f_t, r^d_t),\, t \geq 0\}$, and let $$ LL^T = \Xi, $$ where $L=(l_{i,j})_{i,j=1}^3$ is a lower triangular matrix and $l_{i, i} >0$, for $i=1, \ldots, 3$, be the Cholesky decomposition of $\Xi$.
We assume that, under the domestic risk-neutral probability measure $Q_d$, \begin{align*} dX_t &= X_t\Big[\big(r^d_t - r^f_t\big) dt + \sigma^X dW_t^1\Big], \\ dr^f_t &= \Big[\big( \theta_t^f - \lambda^f r_t^f \big) - \rho_{2, 1}\sigma^f \sigma^X\, \Big] dt + \sigma^f \sum_{i=1}^2 l_{2, i} d W_t^i,\\ dr^d_t &= \big( \theta_t^d - \lambda^d r_t^d \big) dt + \sigma^d\sum_{i=1}^3 l_{3, i} d W_t^i, \end{align*} where $\{W_t^1,\, t \ge 0\}, \ldots, \{W_t^3,\, t \ge 0\}$ are independent standard Brownian motions, $\theta_{t}^{a},$ are piece-wise constant functions, and $\lambda^{a}$ and $\sigma^{a}$ are positive constant, for $a=X$, $d$, or $f$. Here, $\lambda^d$ and $\lambda^f$ are the mean-reverting speed of the respective dynamic processes.
Note that, under the foreign risk-neutral probability measure $Q_f$, $\{\widehat{W}_t^1= W_t^1-\sigma^X t,\, t \ge 0\}$, $\{\widehat{W}_t^2=W_t^2,\, t \ge 0\}$, and $\{\widehat{W}_t^3=W_t^3,\, t \ge 0\}$ are independent standard Brownian motions. Moreover, \begin{align*} dX_t &= X_t\Big[\left(r^d_t - r^f_t + (\sigma^X)^2\right) dt + \sigma^X d\widehat{W}_t^1\Big], \\ dr^f_t &= \big( \theta_t^f - \lambda^f r_t^f \big) dt + \sigma_t^f \sum_{i=1}^2 l_{2, i} d \widehat{W}_t^i,\\ dr^d_t &= \Big[\big( \theta_t^d - \lambda^d r_t^d \big) + \rho_{3, 1}\sigma^d \sigma^X\,\Big] dt + \sigma^d\sum_{i=1}^3 l_{3, i} d \widehat{W}_t^i. \end{align*}
Let $P_d(t, T)$ and $P_f(t, T)$ denote the prices, at time $t$, of the domestic and foreign zero-coupon bonds with maturity $T$. From this question, \begin{align*} P_a(t, T) &= e^{A_a(t, T) - B_a(t, T) r_t^a}, \end{align*} for $a=d$ or $f$, where \begin{align*} \beta_a(t, T) &= \frac{1}{\lambda^a}\left(1-e^{-\lambda^a (T-t)} \right),\\ A_a(t, T) &= -\int_t^T \theta_s^a\beta_a(s, T) ds - \frac{(\sigma^a)^2}{2(\lambda^a)^2}(\beta_a(t, T)-T+t) - \frac{(\sigma^a)^2}{4\lambda^a}\beta_a(t, T)^2. \end{align*} Then, under the domestic risk-neutral measure, \begin{align*} \frac{dP_d(t, T)}{P_d(t, T)} &= r_t^d dt - \beta_d(t, T)\sigma^d \sum_{i=1}^3 l_{3, i} d W_t^i,\\ \frac{dP_f(t, T)}{P_f(t, T)} &= r_t^f dt - \beta_f(t, T)\sigma^f \sum_{i=1}^2 l_{2, i} d \widehat{W}_t^i\\ &=\left(r_t^f + \rho_{2,1}\beta_f(t, T)\sigma^f \sigma^X \right)dt - \beta_f(t, T)\sigma^f \sum_{i=1}^2 l_{2, i} d W_t^i. \end{align*}
Let $Q_d^{t_f}$ be the domestic $t_f$-forward measure. Moreover, let $B_d(t)=e^{\int_0^t r_s^d ds}$ be the domestic money market account value at time $t$. Then, \begin{align*} \frac{dQ_d^{t_f}}{dQ_d}\big|_t &= \frac{P_d(t, t_f)}{P_d(0, t_f) B_d(t)}\\ &=\exp\left(-\frac{1}{2}\int_0^t (\sigma^d \beta_d(s, t_f))^2ds - \int_0^t\sigma^d \beta_d(s, t_f) \sum_{i=1}^3 l_{3, i} d W_s^i\right). \end{align*} Then, $\{\widetilde{W}_t^1,\, 0 \le t \le t_f\}$, $\{\widetilde{W}_t^2,\, 0 \le t \le t_f\}$, and $\{\widetilde{W}_t^3,\, 0 \le t \le t_f\}$, where, for $i=1, \ldots, 3,$ \begin{align*} \widetilde{W}_t^i = W_t^i + \int_0^t l_{3, i} \sigma^d\beta_d(u, t_f) du, \end{align*} are independent standard Brownian motions.
Let $F_X(t, t_f)=X_t\frac{P_f(t, t_f)}{P_d(t, t_f)}$ be the forward exchange rate at time $t$ for maturity $t_f$. Then, \begin{align*} \frac{dF_X(t, t_f)}{F_X(t, t_f)} = \sigma^X d\widetilde{W}_t^1 + \beta_d(t, t_f)\sigma^d \sum_{i=1}^3 l_{3, i} d \widetilde{W}_t^i- \beta_f(t, t_f)\sigma^f \sum_{i=1}^2 l_{2, i} d \widetilde{W}_t^i. \end{align*} Moreover, let \begin{align*} M(t, t_f) &= -\frac{1}{2}\int_t^{t_f} \bigg((\sigma^X)^2 + (\beta_d(u, t_f)\sigma^d)^2 + (\beta_f(u, t_f)\sigma^f)^2\\ &\quad + 2 \rho_{1, 3}\sigma^X \sigma^d\beta_d(u, t_f)- 2 \rho_{1, 2}\sigma^X \sigma^f\beta_f(u, t_f) - 2 \rho_{2, 3}\sigma^d \sigma^f \beta_d(u, t_f)\beta_f(u, t_f)\bigg) du. \end{align*} Then, \begin{align*} X_{t_f} &= F_X(t_f, t_f)\\ &=F_X(t, t_f) \exp\bigg(M(t, t_f) \\ &\quad + \int_t^{t_f} \Big( \sigma^X d\widetilde{W}_u^1 + \beta_d(u, t_f)\sigma^d \sum_{i=1}^3 l_{3, i} d \widetilde{W}_u^i- \beta_f(u, t_f)\sigma^f \sum_{i=1}^2 l_{2, i} d \widetilde{W}_u^i\Big)\bigg). \end{align*} Furthermore, let \begin{align*} N(t, t_f) &= e^{-\lambda^d (t_f-t)} r_t + \int_t^{t_f} \theta_u^d e^{-\lambda^d(t_f-u)} du -\int_t^{t_f}(\sigma^d)^2 e^{-\lambda^d(t_f-u)}\beta_d(u, t_f) du. \end{align*} Then, \begin{align*} r_{t_f}^d &= e^{-\lambda^d (t_f-t)} r_t + \int_t^{t_f} \theta_u^d e^{-\lambda^d(t_f-u)} du + \int_t^{t_f} \sigma^d e^{-\lambda^d(t_f-u)} \sum_{i=1}^3 l_{3, i} d W_u^i\\ &= N(t, t_f)+ \int_t^{t_f} \sigma^d e^{-\lambda^d(t_f-u)} \sum_{i=1}^3 l_{3, i} d \widetilde{W}_u^i. \end{align*} That is, \begin{align*} P_d(t_f, T) X_{t_f} &= \exp\bigg(A_d(t_f, T) - B_d(t_f, T) r_{t_f}^d \bigg)X_{t_f}\\ &= F_X(t, t_f) \exp\bigg(A_d(t_f, T) - B_d(t_f, T)N(t, t_f) + M(t, t_f)\\ &\quad - B_d(t_f, T) \int_t^{t_f} \sigma^d e^{-\lambda^d(t_f-u)} \sum_{i=1}^3 l_{3, i} d \widetilde{W}_u^i \\ &\quad + \int_t^{t_f} \Big( \sigma^X d\widetilde{W}_u^1 + \beta_d(u, t_f)\sigma^d \sum_{i=1}^3 l_{3, i} d \widetilde{W}_u^i- \beta_f(u, t_f)\sigma^f \sum_{i=1}^2 l_{2, i} d \widetilde{W}_u^i\Big) \bigg). \end{align*} Let \begin{align*} V(t, t_f, T) &= \int_t^{t_f} \bigg((\sigma^X)^2 + \Big(\beta_d(u, t_f)\sigma^d - B_d(t_f, T)\sigma^d e^{-\lambda^d(t_f-u)} \Big)^2 + (\beta_f(u, t_f)\sigma^f)^2\\ &\quad + 2 \rho_{1, 3}\sigma^X \Big(\beta_d(u, t_f)\sigma^d - B_d(t_f, T)\sigma^d e^{-\lambda^d(t_f-u)} \Big)- 2 \rho_{1, 2}\sigma^X \sigma^f\beta_f(u, t_f) \\ &\quad - 2 \rho_{2, 3}\sigma^f \beta_f(u, t_f)\Big(\beta_d(u, t_f)\sigma^d - B_d(t_f, T)\sigma^d e^{-\lambda^d(t_f-u)} \Big)\bigg) du\\ &= -2M(t, t_f) + B_d(t_f, T)\int_t^{t_f}\bigg[ B_d(t_f, T)\Big( \sigma^d e^{-\lambda^d(t_f-u)} \Big)^2 \\ &\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad - 2 (\sigma^d)^2\beta_d(u, t_f)e^{-\lambda^d(t_f-u)} -2 \rho_{1, 3}\sigma^X \sigma^d e^{-\lambda^d(t_f-u)}\\ &\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad +2 \rho_{2, 3}\sigma^d \sigma^f \beta_f(u, t_f) e^{-\lambda^d(t_f-u)} \bigg]du. \end{align*} Moreover, let \begin{align*} V_0(t, t_f, T) &=B_d(t_f, T)\int_t^{t_f}\bigg[ B_d(t_f, T)\Big( \sigma^d e^{-\lambda^d(t_f-u)} \Big)^2 \\ &\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad - 2 (\sigma^d)^2\beta_d(u, t_f)e^{-\lambda^d(t_f-u)} -2 \rho_{1, 3}\sigma^X \sigma^d e^{-\lambda^d(t_f-u)} \\ &\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad +2 \rho_{2, 3}\sigma^d \sigma^f \beta_f(u, t_f) e^{-\lambda^d(t_f-u)} \bigg]du. \end{align*} Then \begin{align*} &\ E^{Q_d^{t_f}} \Big(P_d(t_f, T) X_{t_f} \mid \mathcal{F}_t \Big) \\ =&\ F_X(t, t_f) \exp\bigg(A_d(t_f, T) - B_d(t_f, T)N(t, t_f) + M(t, t_f) +\frac{1}{2} V(t, t_f, T) \bigg)\\ =&\ F_X(t, t_f) \exp\bigg(A_d(t_f, T) - B_d(t_f, T)N(t, t_f) + \frac{1}{2} V_0(t, t_f, T) \bigg). \end{align*}Shown in full with attribution under the source's licence. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 (Stack Exchange)
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