Bullet Payment

A Bullet Payment is a simple unidirectional one-off payment. The reason for the payment is not captured.

Key classes

A Bullet Payment is represented in Strata using the BulletPayment class. The BulletPayment class stores details of the product that was agreed. The trade details are stored in BulletPaymentTrade class.

A BulletPayment can be created using a builder as follows:

BulletPayment bp = BulletPayment.builder()
  .payReceive(PayReceive.PAY)
  .value(CurrencyAmount.of(GBP, 20_000))
  .date(AdjustableDate.of(LocalDate.of(2014, 9, 16), BusinessDayAdjustement.of(FOLLOWING, GBLO)))
  .build();

TIP: The strata-loader project provides the ability to load a Bullet Payment from FpML and CSV.

Risk measures

The strata-measure module provides high-level risk measures for Bullet Payments. The main entry point is BulletPaymentTradeCalculations.

The following measures are available:

• present value, and associated sensitivity
• single-node bucketed gamma
• currency exposure
• current cash

These measures are also available using the calculation API.

The strata-pricer module provides lower-level pricing support for Bullet Payments:

• DiscountingPaymentPricer, see Javadoc.

Product model

The following table summarizes the fields on BulletPayment that can be used to control the product. For more detail on the meaning of each field, see the Javadoc;