Derivative markets traded at IMAREX
As the world's only regulated market place for maritime derivatives, IMAREX is a cornerstone of of the maritime futures and options industry globally.
As an exchange IMAREX improves the trading efficiency for principals in the freight derivatives market by offering three KEY services to clients and market participants.
Our three main services offered are:
- Transaction Services - Enabling dealers and traders to execute freight derivatives transactions
- Clearing Services - Straight through clearing of trades via the IMAREX screen
- Information Services - Market Pricing, Forward Curves and Data distribution
IMAREX offers fully electronic trading on screen, or Exchange Broker executed deals on behalf of members.
Clearing services are provided by NOS (The Norwegian Futures and Options Clearing House) for all maritime freight futures. Clearing services are available to members of Imarex only, either directly or via authorised third parties.
IMAREX Information Services provides distribution of information for price discovery and deal analysis support.
We also supply daily freight forward curves to third party vendors such as Bloomberg, Reuters and others.
The need for efficient solutions in the freight futures market is becoming more important than ever before due to increasing number of trades and trading participants.
IMAREX is the central marketplace where principals and OTC brokers can be guaranteed equal access, neutrality, transparency and anonymity as well as promoting clearing to reduce credit risk and improve liquidity.