Description

Compagnie Financière Tradition SA acts as a global interdealer broker, facilitating transactions across a wide range of financial and non-financial products. The firm offers extensive capital market solutions, encompassing basis swaps, various credit and currency derivatives, interest rate options and swaps, inflation products, as well as specialized Latin American derivatives and Turkish fixed income and money market instruments. Its comprehensive energy and commodities division covers everything from oil, natural gas, electricity, and coal to precious metals, environmental products, and agricultural soft commodities. Within the equities sector, CFT supports trading in cash and preferred shares, complex equity derivatives, ETFs, single-stock options, and specialized delta-one and dividend swaps. For fixed income, the company deals in a broad array of bonds (corporate, government, covered), floating-rate notes, futures, options, mortgages, and repurchase agreements. Their foreign exchange services span emerging markets, spot and forward FX, FX listed futures and options, and exotic derivatives. Additionally, CFT provides money market products such as arbitrage opportunities, cash fund management, commercial paper, deposits, and forward rate agreements. Beyond these core brokerage activities, the company also delivers market data, structured products, private equity, and various secondary market solutions for assets like hedge funds and real estate. Established in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1959, Compagnie Financière Tradition SA operates as a subsidiary of Financière Vermeer NV.