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 them 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.
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From Amsterdam to Sydney, Chicago to Singapore – we work as one team with one mission: to improve the market.
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 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.
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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.
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We trade a constantly evolving set of complex, interrelated financial instruments. Our researchers build models and pricing engines to capture these relationships and ensure consistency across products.
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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.
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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.
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Our expertise
We provide institutional investors around the globe with liquidity in equities, FX, fixed income and commodity products.
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EquitiesSingle Stock Futures
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CommoditiesAgricultural Options
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Fixed IncomeEurodollar Options
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EquitiesDividend Futures
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FXFX Listed and OTC Options
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CommoditiesNatural Gas Options
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EquitiesETF Options
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EquitiesETFs (Global ETFs)
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EquitiesETFs
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Fixed IncomeTreasury Options
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CommoditiesOil Options
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CommoditiesETFs
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CommoditiesPrecious and Base Metals Options
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Fixed IncomeGovernment Futures
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EquitiesIndex Options (ex Japan)
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EquitiesIndex Options
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EquitiesCash Equity
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FXFX Listed Options
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Fixed IncomeGovernment Options (Germany)
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EquitiesIndex Futures
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EquitiesSingle Stock Options
Insights
Our Insights
As a member of industry groups like the Plato Partnership, as well as through our Insights papers, we share our knowledge, expertise and values to help improve the market.
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Market structure Lend, borrow, grow: Improving Brazil’s SBL market
We propose steps to modernize Brazil’s SBL system.
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Market structure Enhancing swaps liquidity through targeted reforms
More abundant and deeper liquidity in cleared swaps markets is achievable with incremental changes and targeted adjustments to rules governing swaps trading.
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Market structure Two types of liquidity: The Mississippi River and market makers in agricultural derivatives
While many farmers may not directly trade futures, these markets play a critical role in influencing cash prices and mitigating price volatility in the broader agricultural economy.
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The Optiver foundation
We created the Optiver Foundation to support meaningful, sustainable change on a global scale.
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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 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.