Optiver

What does it really take to build #liquidity in today’s markets? Check out this piece from Optiver partner Andy Meyer where he shares what he learned after a decade of building an #equities and #ETF business in Europe. linkedin.com/pulse/how-buil…

Infrastructure-as-Code is straightforward in the cloud. Applying it to racks, cables, and physical servers requires a different approach. In her @pyladies talk, Leanne Fok shares how declarative #IaC works in latency-critical bare metal systems. bit.ly/4dx9sXX

Optiver is at @nvidia GTC this week in San Jose. As #trading becomes more data-driven, advances in computing and #AI are increasingly relevant to how we build and run our systems. If you’re at GTC, we’d be glad to connect.

At Optiver, #AI and machine learning are becoming central to how we analyze markets, manage risk and develop trading strategies. This week, Optiver CTO Lance Braunstein joins industry leaders at @McKinsey NYC Tech Day.

Much of our CI platform runs on fixed hardware. That changes how we approach scale, visibility, and capacity, especially when auto-scaling isn’t an option. Full breakdown here: bit.ly/4cvtYrB

For those attending on the 25th, our CEO Jan Boomaars will join the panel “Market Structure & Liquidity: Navigating the Next Evolution” to discuss the future of liquidity provision and how market makers like Optiver are evolving. We look forward to seeing you in Frankfurt.

We're looking forward to @EurexGroup Derivatives Forum this week, an opportunity to engage with counterparties and discuss the trends reshaping #markets and #liquidity.

“We’re excited to lead the investment round in Optimal and to form a strategic partnership that we believe will bring much-needed competition and innovation to the U.S. retail options market,” said Jake Taylor, head of U.S. SSO at Optiver. optimalmarkettech.com

The U.S. options market has grown rapidly, but execution models haven’t kept pace. As both an investor and a Primary Market Maker (PMM), we’re proud to support a performance-based model where multiple PMMs compete for order flow based on measurable execution quality.

Today marks the launch of Optimal Market Technologies, a new U.S. #options platform designed to promote transparency, choice and high-quality execution.

A proud moment for Optiver as we rang the opening bell at @Cboe to celebrate 40 years of market making. Chicago's exchanges have been central to our story since we entered the U.S. more than two decades ago. We look forward to many more years of building and improving markets.

Performance issues in interactive data platforms are rarely local. This blog explores how small design decisions compound as speed and scale collide. Read more: bit.ly/4tA0f75 #SystemsEngineering #DataPlatforms

The rise reflects demand from the energy transition, a weaker US dollar, trade tensions, and growing geopolitical risk. “Commodities have become central to macro positioning again,” said Alex Fisher, Head of Commodities and FX at Optiver.

Global #commodity #options volumes are rising. Market participants are increasingly turning to options to manage rising uncertainty and structural shifts in energy and resource markets. Activity has been particularly strong this year in metals such as #gold, #silver, and #copper

Building real-time trading dashboards on petabyte-scale data forces hard trade offs. This post breaks down how we used @databricks Apps, Dash and Spark Structured Streaming to cut latency and scale live market insights as Spark continues to evolve. bit.ly/4c1K388

At scale, systematic trading research becomes an engineering problem. Rob Hahn breaks down how we design our research platform for large-scale ML experiments and the orchestration choices that keep results reproducible and turnaround times predictable. bit.ly/4agjcUr

He’ll discuss growing #dispersion and reflect on key 2025 trends including long volatility trades, price-insensitive flows, and shorter-dated supply. Learn more here: eqderivatives.com/event/europe-e…

Optiver will be in Barcelona next week, bringing a trader's-eye view of the cross-asset #volatility landscape. Hugo Bernaldo de Quirós will share how the #AI revolution is accelerating the pace at which markets move, and what that means for volatility.

Learn more here: globenewswire.com/news-release/2…

“Efforts to improve standardization, transparency, and operational efficiency are critical to supporting liquidity, scaling participation, and enabling the next phase of growth across private market ecosystems,” said Liam Smith, Chief Strategy Officer at Optiver.

We’re supporting Nasdaq Private Market in its Series C round, as it helps enable the next phase of growth in the private market ecosystem. We look forward to partnering with NPM to help advance the structure of private markets.