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FX Market Making with Internal Liquidity

As the FX markets continue to evolve, many institutions have started offering passive access to their internal liquidity pools. Market makers act as principal and have the opportunity to fill those orders as part of their risk management, or they may choose to adjust pricing to their external OTC fr

Lab Rats Math 9 Rigor 4 ·  December 4, 2025

Win-score promotion gates in aggregator-routed RFQ markets: A two-tier stochastic control model

We study market making in aggregator-routed RFQ markets where platform routing depends on slowly varying dealer performance scores. We propose a two-tier stochastic control model that separates RFQ-level price competition from a macro routing layer: tier A represents aggregator flow whose opportunit

Lab Rats Math 8.5 Rigor 3 ·  March 11, 2026

Dynamic slippage control and rejection feedback in spot FX market making

We study an OTC FX market-making problem, built on the Avellaneda-Stoikov tradition, in which a dealer streams size-dependent quotes on a discrete ladder and manages inventory risk over a finite horizon under Poisson arrivals of trade requests. Adverse selection is modelled through latency-driven pr

Lab Rats Math 8.5 Rigor 3 ·  March 8, 2026

Bond Market Making with a Hit-Ratio Target

We study OTC bond market making on a size ladder with quadratic inventory penalty and a running target on the dealer’s size-weighted hit ratio within a stochastic optimal control approach. We demonstrate that the corresponding reduced Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation remains separable by duali

Lab Rats Math 8 Rigor 3 ·  April 22, 2026

Optimal Quoting under Adverse Selection and Price Reading

Over the past decade, many dealers have implemented algorithmic models to automatically respond to RFQs and manage flows originating from their electronic platforms. In parallel, building on the foundational work of Ho and Stoll, and later Avellaneda and Stoikov, the academic literature on market ma

Lab Rats Math 8 Rigor 3 ·  August 27, 2025

Market Making and Transient Impact in Spot FX

Dealers in foreign exchange markets provide bid and ask prices to their clients at which they are happy to buy and sell, respectively. To manage risk, dealers can skew their quotes and hedge in the interbank market. Hedging offers certainty but comes with transaction costs and market impact. Optimal

Lab Rats Math 7 Rigor 3.5 ·  January 19, 2026

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