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Risk Factor [MAR10.9]

The Risk Factor is used to identify sensitivities. However, it is not used directly in the calculations, instead the Equity, Type, and tenor fields are used (as appropriate for the risk-measure). This means that multiple Risk Factor Names may be used for the same risk-factor.

Field	Key	Risk Measure	Description
As-of Date	Y	All	Timestamp (at close of business) for the data (T-1)
Risk Factor Name	Y	All	A name for the risk-factor (not including vertices, for Vega)
Risk Class	Y	All	“Equity”
Risk Measure	Y	All	“Delta”, “Vega”, or “Curvature”
Option Maturity	Y	Vega	The maturity of the option
Equity Name (Underlying)		All	Name of the equity or equity issuer (see interpretation note).
Type		All	“Spot” or “Repo”.

For Vega and Curvature, the risk-factor is the same as the underlying.

Implementation notes (vectors of vertices):

The Vega risk-factor name spans all maturities, so it represents multiple [MAR10.9] risk-factors.
In the input files (default file format), multiple vertices and sensitivities may either be provided on the same row or different rows.
In the datastore, we use vectors to store the sensitivities for all tenors.
In the cubes, we use analysis hierarchies to expand the vectors.