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Marex Spectron 
Type Private Industry Financial Services Founded 2006 Headquarters London, Geneva, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Houston, Frankfurt, Oslo Area served Energy, Metals, Financial Futures, Foreign Exchange, Freight, Environmentals, Softs and Agriculturals, Securities. Key people Jeremy Isaacs - Chairman
Roger Nagioff - CEORevenue £79.0 million (2009) Employees 500+ Website [1] Marex Spectron is a financial broker focused on commodities, financial futures and foreign exchange. Marex Spectron provides voice and electronic trading and clearing services for commodity markets in metals, energy and agricultural products as well as the financial futures and foreign exchange markets.
Its client base includes commodity producers and consumers, Commodity trading advisor, hedge funds, banks and e-locals. Marex Spectron has over five hundred employees, located in offices throughout Europe, North America and Asia. Its trading desks offer commentary on trade flows, fundamentals and technical analysis plus increased liquidity by market making or block trading large or complex orders.
Marex Spectron is a full service broker on the London Metal Exchange, NYSE Liffe (Paris, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Brussels) ICE Futures (Europe and Canada) and Eurex and provides access exchanges in the US and Asia.
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History
Marex Spectron was formed following the integration of Marex Financial and Spectron Group in May 2011.
MAREX Financial Limited was an independent derivatives and Foreign Exchange broker providing trading in commodities, financial futures, options and foreign exchange.[1]
The company was established in 2006 by the Marathon Special Opportunity Master Fund Limited and managed by Marathon Asset Management.
In February 2010, hedge fund JRJ Group took 74% stake in the business and brought in a number of former Lehman Brothers bankers onto its board to expand the business.[2][3]
In March 2011 Marex Group acquired Spectron Group Limited to become Marex Spectron.[4]
Operations
Marex Spectron trades in a number of areas, including Commodity Products (natural gas, metals, electricity, oil and oil products, freight, softs and agricultural products and emissions) and Financial Products (such as foreign exchange, financial futures and options, equities, fixed Income, equity futures and options, equity finance and event driven securities.)
Marex is a member of the Futures and Options Association and is regulated by the Financial Services Authority.
References
- ^ "Private company information -MAREX Financial Limited". Bloomberg Businessweek. http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=5826958. Retrieved April 24, 2011.
- ^ "Stanley Fink joins trading supergroup Marex Financial". The Sunday Times. February 28, 2010. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article7043838.ece.
- ^ "Marex Financial in £94.5m deal for Spectron". FT.com. March 22 2011. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6c90d32c-549f-11e0-979a-00144feab49a.html#axzz1KTkV9BBp.
- ^ . http://www.marexspectron.com/Group/News/tabid/62/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/2/Marex-Group-reaches-agreement-to-acquire-Spectron-Group.aspx.
External links
- Marex Spectron Website
- Whizz-Kidz: Corporate partnerships helping disabled children
- Marex Financial and Marex Carlton to Host Charity Day
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