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.
Optiver ambassador
Anish Giri: Tata Steel Chess
Optiver ambassador and four-time Dutch champion Anish Giri is currently going head-to-head against 13 grandmasters in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament, one of the most prestigious events in the international chess world.
Anish has shown incredible performance throughout the tournament with historic wins against both the current world champion Magnus Carlsen and world number two Ding Liren. After Friday’s game against the tournament lead Abdusattorov, Anish has maintained a second place ranking in the masters standings.
As the tournament comes to a close, Optiver is wishing Anish the best of luck as he prepares for the final two games of the tournament.
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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CommoditiesNatural Gas Options
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EquitiesSingle Stock Options
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Fixed IncomeTreasury Options
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FXFX Listed and OTC Options
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CommoditiesOil Options
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EquitiesETF Options
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Fixed IncomeGovernment Options (Germany)
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EquitiesIndex Futures
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Fixed IncomeEurodollar Options
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FXFX Listed Options
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Fixed IncomeGovernment Futures
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EquitiesETFs
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EquitiesIndex Options
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EquitiesETFs (Global ETFs)
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EquitiesCash Equity
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EquitiesDividend Futures
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CommoditiesETFs
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CommoditiesAgricultural Options
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CommoditiesPrecious and Base Metals Options
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EquitiesSingle Stock Futures
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EquitiesIndex Options (ex Japan)
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News Optiver appoints Sandrine Teran as Chief Financial Officer
Optiver is pleased to announce the appointment of Sandrine Teran as Chief Financial Officer, effective January 1.
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Life at Optiver, News Optiver Austin recognized as a 2023 Best Place to Work by Built In
Optiver Austin, the firm’s second US office location, was recently recognized as a 2023 Best Place to Work by Built In.
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Market structure Strengthening the capital rules at Taiwan Futures Exchange
We weigh up TAIFEX’s capital rules and suggest fixes to make them more effective.
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Market views Central banks dominated 2022: year in review
Check out our year-in-review timeline, featuring key moments and reflections from our traders.
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Market views Volatility views: November CPI print carries potential for elevated volatility
Following last month’s surprise inflation miss, S&P 500 options prices imply significant volatility should November CPI come in higher or lower than expected.
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News Optiver wins market maker of the year at FOW International Awards
Optiver was honoured at the 2022 FOW International Awards with the Market-Maker of the Year prize.
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News Optiver brings on-screen liquidity to TOPIX options at the Osaka Exchange
Optiver, a leading global market maker, is excited to announce that it is quoting prices on-screen for TOPIX options listed on Japan’s Osaka Exchange (OSE).
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Market views Optiver’s Sumit Kendurkar on European markets
Optiver senior trader Sumit Kendurkar joined Jill Malandrino on Nasdaq’s TradeTalks to discuss stocks, bonds, hedging and more.
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Market views Volatility views: Traders are sanguine about US midterms. Too sanguine?
While upcoming US midterm elections have generated plenty of headlines, to date there has been relatively little in the way of market volatility in relation to the event. That could change should Democrats tighten their control of Congress.
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Market views ‘It’s not over yet’: traders weigh up this year’s volatility
Caution was in the air at October’s Eurex Derivatives conference in Amsterdam, sponsored by Optiver.
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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.