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.
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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FXFX Listed Options
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EquitiesIndex Options
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EquitiesDividend Futures
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EquitiesIndex Options (ex Japan)
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CommoditiesAgricultural Options
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Fixed IncomeGovernment Options (Germany)
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CommoditiesETFs
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EquitiesSingle Stock Options
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CommoditiesOil Options
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CommoditiesNatural Gas Options
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Fixed IncomeEurodollar Options
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FXFX Listed and OTC Options
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EquitiesIndex Futures
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EquitiesCash Equity
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EquitiesETF Options
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Fixed IncomeGovernment Futures
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EquitiesETFs
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CommoditiesPrecious and Base Metals Options
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EquitiesSingle Stock Futures
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Fixed IncomeTreasury Options
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EquitiesETFs (Global ETFs)
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 Diversity is strength in US derivatives markets
As the industry considers proposals to allow DCMs and DCOs to enter into combinations with FCMs, we urge policymakers and market participants to carefully weigh the risks.
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Market structure Improving settlement for Hong Kong’s weekly index options
The settlement price methodology used for weekly index options in Hong Kong limits their effectiveness as a hedge on expiry day. We propose enhancements.
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Market structure How Japan’s settlement price methodology impacts option expiry
We highlight problems with the settlement price methodology for the Large Nikkei 225 Index Options on the Osaka Exchange (OSE) and propose improvements.
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Market structure A uniform approach to corporate actions
Using a recent Petrobras dividend announcement, we argue for a way US markets can better manage corporate actions.
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SeriesMarket structure Modest term, big impact: Corporate actions and the options market
Corporate actions can have major impacts on options prices, yet there’s considerable uncertainty about these events among traders.
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Market structure Brazil weekly options ready for takeoff
With the launch of weekly options on single stocks and ETFs, one of the fastest growing products in global derivatives markets is now available to investors in Brazil.
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Market regulation Why trade execution still matters
Now more than ever, traders need to carefully choose the right execution partners and strategy.
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Market regulation A better way to ‘pilot’ financial regulation
Pilot programs allow regulators to test – in a real-world, yet controlled environment – whether a particular market structure reform is likely to have its intended effect.
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Market structure Buy-side European cash equity trading trends
In late 2023, Optiver partnered with The Trade to identify emerging trends in cash equity trading and market structure.
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Market regulation A little understood cost of trading options in the US
Exchanges use ORF to cover a material portion, but not all, of their supervision and regulation of the US options market.
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We created the Optiver Foundation to support meaningful, sustainable change on a global scale.
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We work across 7 different time zones to help keep financial markets ticking.