Company

SuperDerivatives’ products cover the entire spectrum of derivatives usage for all professionals. This includes real-time pricing and analytics platforms, risk management systems, portfolio revaluation services, options market data portal and an online trading platform. SuperDerivatives' products are used by the entire derivatives community from both buy and sell side organizations. Its multi-award benchmark pricing platforms are used by almost all the banks around the world that are active in options, as well as by numerous corporations, asset managers, hedge funds, fund administrators, custodians, auditors and central banks.

Encouraged by the enthusiastic adoption of its applications all over the world, the company is as committed as ever to its original mission – to introduce transparency and deliver powerful trading and risk management tools to all existing and potential derivative users. By making its products available to anyone, SuperDerivatives has leveled the playing field in option pricing, portfolio revaluation, trading and risk management. As a result of the added transparency and market-confidence, trading volumes have risen dramatically, thus benefiting both buy-side hedgers and investors and sell-side market making banks.

Since its founding in 2000, SuperDerivatives has revolutionized the world of options by introducing transparency to all types of options - from vanillas through the most exotic options, across all markets and assets including currencies, interest rates, equities, energy and commodities, as well as hybrid and cross-asset structured products. With the SuperDerivatives web-based real-time pricing systems, every market participant can price options as accurately as the most experienced trader in the largest investment banks on Wall Street and the City of London.

SuperDerivatives’ benchmark option pricing model is the only publicly available model used daily by many thousands of practitioners globally for deriving live tradable prices. The model's accuracy in generating prices for all types of derivatives has been empirically proven and validated continuously for several years.

In addition to its renowned real-time pricing & analytics platforms, the company also provides fully-fledged risk management systems with specifically tailored versions for banks, hedge funds and asset managers, and a global on-line electronic trading platform.

In April 2004 SuperDerivatives launched its benchmark portfolio revaluation services that utilize its benchmark pricing model and its independent global market data network. Since then, the SuperDerivatives revaluation services have been used extensively by numerous banks, hedge funds, asset managers, custodians and funds administrators.

With its benchmark pricing model and verified market data, and through close cooperation with regulatory and professional bodies as well as with global accounting firms, SuperDerivatives has enabled accurate and compliant profit and loss reporting and auditing of derivative portfolios by both financial and non-financial corporations. It has allowed reporting entities and auditors alike to comply with the spirit and letter of the stringent accounting, auditing and banking standards such as FAS 133, FAS 157, IAS 39, IFRS 2, IFRS 7, UCITS III, Basel II, MiFID (best execution) and CRD that require Fair Market Value revaluation.

SuperDerivatives has been recognized in the marketplace by repeatedly winning multiple customer-voted awards for its various products. These include winning the Euromoney award for three years in a row for Best Options Platform, winning Best Option Pricing and Risk Management award by FX Week from 2003 through 2006, as well as winning the #1 award for Analytics by Risk Magazine in 2005 and again in 2006. Reaching beyond the derivatives market, in 2005 and in 2006 SuperDerivatives was ranked among the top 40 online financial companies by Institutional Investor magazine.

The company operates and serves its clients diligently in over 60 countries in all continents. As of 2007 it has 400 employees in offices in London, New York, Tokyo, Singapore, Paris, Rome, Mumbai, Seoul and Buenos Aires.