Founded in 2000, the IMAREX Group has grown from being a small Norwegian freight derivatives market, to being a large diversified group acting as intermediary and clearer for physical and derivative commodity transactions worth over USD200 billion per year.
At present the IMAREX Group serves its members and clients through nearly 300 staff in 12 cities around the world working in four main operational sectors of the commodity markets. These are:
- Regulated exchanges and electronic trading platforms
- Derivatives clearing and settlement
- Derivatives and physical commodity brokerage
- Commercial market research and analyses services
IMAREX is involved in the following commodity markets:
- Dry bulk and tanker freight derivatives
- UK, Nordic and European energy derivatives
- European and US emissions derivatives
- Physical UK, European and US natural gas markets
- Crude oil and middle distillates derivatives
- Nordic salmon and seafood derivatives
- London Metals Exchange derivatives
- Weather derivatives
- Physical coal
- Nuclear fuels
Our exchange members include commodity trading houses ship owners, oil refiners, banks and financial investment institutions.