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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CommoditiesPrecious and Base Metals Options
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CommoditiesNatural Gas Options
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EquitiesSingle Stock Futures
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CommoditiesETFs
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EquitiesETFs
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Fixed IncomeGovernment Futures
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EquitiesETFs (Global ETFs)
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Fixed IncomeGovernment Options (Germany)
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CommoditiesOil Options
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EquitiesIndex Options
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EquitiesSingle Stock Options
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EquitiesETF Options
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EquitiesCash Equity
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FXFX Listed Options
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EquitiesDividend Futures
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EquitiesIndex Options (ex Japan)
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Fixed IncomeEurodollar Options
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FXFX Listed and OTC Options
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Fixed IncomeTreasury Options
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EquitiesIndex Futures
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CommoditiesAgricultural 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. Read our expert perspectives on the latest developments in trading, market structure and technology.
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Market regulation Blazing a new Consolidated Audit Trail
Restructuring the CAT in a way that is sustainable, cost efficient and practical.
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Market regulation Latest CFD bans threaten listed products
Recent CFD regulations in Germany and Spain are conflating contracts-for-difference with instruments like futures and options.
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SeriesMarket structure Mass cancellations and purge ports
Mass cancellation messages, especially when used in combination with purge ports, are one of the simplest and most effective forms of liquidity protection.
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Market structure Market-maker protections
Market-maker protections (MMPs) are one of the most frequently used forms of liquidity protection in the options market.
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SeriesMarket structure Protecting liquidity in options markets
In a series of articles, we’re exploring liquidity protection – the measures offered by exchanges to ensure that market makers are able to quote without taking excessive risk.
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Market structure A plan for tackling closing auction outages
Closing auction outages are rare, but they do happen. While recent regulatory efforts have been aimed at outages during normal trading hours, more needs to be done to protect the closing auction.
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SeriesMarket structure Equity options: Who uses them and why?
This is the second in a series of articles exploring single-stock options in key Asia Pacific (APAC) markets. Following an outline of the present situation for equity options in each of these markets, we offer our recommendations for how to grow them. In this article, we discuss the uses and popularity of SSOs.
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Market structure T+1: The case for one-day settlement in Europe
We encourage Europe to follow the US’s lead and move to T+1 settlement, but we caution that there are numerous complexities to iron out.
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Market regulation A new playbook for Europe’s capital markets
We propose a new playbook for turning Europe’s capital markets into a healthier place.
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SeriesMarket structure How to bring APAC’s equity options markets to life
In this series of articles, we’re exploring single-stock options markets in key regions of APAC. After describing the state of play for equity options in each of these markets, we offer our recommendations for how to grow them.
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Our global offices trade around the clock
We work across 7 different time zones to help keep financial markets ticking.