Demands for market transparency and new accounting standards are challenging participants in the derivatives markets. An independent intermediary in typically highly specialized markets, GFI can assist the buy and sell-sides by providing them with hard-to-find, independent and comprehensive real-time and historical data.
The presence of brokerage operations in such specialized markets means that GFI is an important information hub of complex derivative products, and therefore ideally positioned to provide the capital markets with data which reflects actual market conditions and sentiments.
Data Sets GFI is continuously making new data sets available to its customers. Current data sets include:
Why GFI Market Data?
Market anonymity and neutrality - as a wholesale broker, GFI arranges transactions and does not take speculative positions in the market. This makes our data truly independent.
Market depth - GFI collects and disseminates the market's view through snapshots of prices that are gathered throughout the day and around the clock.
Implied volatility - GFI's market data helps to mitigate value at risk through the use of market implied volatility.
Data quality - Prices are analyzed using both experienced data analysts and statistical cleansing algorithms, ensuring data is of the highest quality.
Internationally recognized - GFI's award-winning brokerage desks and the global capabilities of our operations enable us to build on our already comprehensive market data.