We improve the market
Optiver is a global
market maker
As one of the oldest market making firms in the world, Optiver has been improving financial markets since 1986. By providing liquidity to markets across the globe, we make markets more efficient, transparent and stable.
Powered by technological innovation, we continuously provide competitive, two-sided prices for thousands of financial instruments on all major exchanges globally.
Our world class teams of highly skilled professionals come from a broad range of disciplines but are bound by one simple purpose: improving the market.
We work across five critical domains
As a global market maker, we trade thousands of financial instruments on exchanges around the world, continuously injecting liquidity to make markets more efficient, transparent and stable for all market participants.
Powered by technology, our best-in-class trading systems and infrastructure are developed in-house, enabling us to respond to market events at nanosecond speed while operating at peak efficiency.
To enable Optiver to provide continuous prices for thousands of financial instruments on exchanges around the globe, risk management and control has to be intrinsic to everything we do.
Competitively pricing hundreds of thousands of interconnected financial products in real-time is no small feat. Our research and data science teams find new ways to tackle it daily.
At Optiver, people are our greatest strength. That’s why we pride ourselves on hiring brilliant minds from any and all backgrounds and investing in their futures, ensuring our organisation remains an enriching place to work.
Optiver is where the world’s best and brightest come to work on real-time problems, and see the impact of their ideas – instantly and globally.
We provide institutional investors around the globe with liquidity in equities, FX, fixed income and commodity products.
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EquitiesDividend Futures
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EquitiesETFs (Global ETFs)
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CommoditiesNatural Gas Options
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CommoditiesETFs
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CommoditiesPrecious and Base Metals Options
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EquitiesIndex Options
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CommoditiesOil Options
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EquitiesIndex Options (ex Japan)
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EquitiesETFs
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Fixed IncomeEurodollar Options
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EquitiesIndex Futures
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Fixed IncomeTreasury Options
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Fixed IncomeGovernment Futures
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CommoditiesAgricultural Options
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FXFX Listed and OTC Options
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EquitiesSingle Stock Futures
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Fixed IncomeGovernment Options (Germany)
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EquitiesSingle Stock Options
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EquitiesCash Equity
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EquitiesETF Options
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FXFX Listed Options
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Market structure A VIX for APAC: Building a regional volatility benchmark
Despite the growing popularity of Asia-Pacific markets, investors in the region lack a volatility benchmark on par with the Cboe Volatility Index or the Euro Stoxx 50 Volatility Index. We believe the Nikkei Stock Average Volatility Index (NKVI) is the most promising candidate to become a leading gauge for APAC. However, to date, methodological shortcomings […]
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Market structure Optiver joins Aquis Exchange as liquidity provider For European stocks
Optiver is pleased to announce that it has become a Member of Aquis Exchange, a leading venue for trading pan-European equities.
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Market views Optiver is a key counterparty for SocGen Luxembourg’s automated equities solution
When Societe Generale Luxembourg, the country’s oldest foreign banking institution, sought to improve its execution process in cash equities, it turned to Optiver.
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Market regulation CSDR: promising signs from the new settlement discipline regime
Cash penalties introduced under the Settlement Discipline Regime (SDR) are working, early data and anecdotal evidence show. With market participants already incentivized to get their post-trade in order, mandatory buy-ins could introduce fresh risks into the process.
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Principal Strategic Investments Optiver joins Pyth to stream prices to the blockchain
Optiver is pleased to announce we’re joining the Pyth network, the decentralized oracle solution providing real-time financial market data directly onto the blockchain.
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Market structure Options market maker protections: a best-in-class approach
When it comes to mass quoting, some market maker protections work better than others. We feel that a small core provide sufficient protection and lend themselves to sound administration in practice.
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Principal Strategic Investments Optiver PSI invests in innovative securities lending platform Sharegain
Optiver Principal Strategic Investments (PSI) is pleased to participate in the Series B funding round for Sharegain, an innovative new solution for brokers and asset managers to borrow and lend securities.
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SeriesEvents Global volatility webinar: the taper tightrope
Doubts around the Fed’s ability to tame rising prices, as well as the path for tapering asset purchases, was the main topic of discussion at Optiver’s Global Volatility Webinar on February 9.
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Market structure Three ways to keep Europe’s retail investors investing
An unprecedented boom in retail investing is sweeping Europe, powered by the growth of zero-commission brokers. While a hugely promising trend, it’s important to keep smaller investors engaged by ensuring good outcomes. This means better execution, sufficient access to competitive, multilateral exchange-traded products and greater financial education.
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Principal Strategic Investments Optiver PSI invests in leading RFQ platform for crypto options
Optiver Principal Strategic Investments (PSI) is pleased to announce its participation in the Series A funding round for Paradigm, a leading trading platform for crypto options and futures.
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Join our journey
Whether you’re a potential collaborator, institutional trader or talented graduate, we’re always looking for people to join us on our mission and make us better.
Join our teams who work in: trading, technology, risk & control, data science and business operations.
We provide liquidity to 600+ institutional counterparties, trading a variety of products on 75+ exchanges globally.
Working with entrepreneurs and founders shaping the future of financial markets is key to our mission to improve the market.
Our global offices trade around the clock
We work across 7 different time zones to help keep financial markets ticking.