It offers brokerage services for various credit derivative products, including single-entity credit default swaps, emerging market credit default swaps, credit indices, options on single-entity credit default swaps, options on credit indices, and credit index tranches.
The company also offers brokerage services for various nonderivative credit instruments, such as investment grade corporate bonds, high yield corporate bonds, emerging market Eurobonds, bank capital preferred shares, asset-backed bonds, and floating rate notes.
GFI Group offers brokerage services in various financial instruments, including foreign exchange options, exotic options, and interest rate swaps.
Exotic options include nonstandard options on foreign currencies, forward contracts, and nondeliverable forward contracts.
The company provides brokerage services for equity products, including the U.
S. equity, international equity, equity derivatives, GDR, and ADR stocks.
Its brokerage services for commodity products include electricity, wet freight derivatives, precious metals, coal, natural gas, weather derivatives, and pulp and paper.
The company also offers hybrid brokerage services by combining telephonic and electronic trade execution services.
GFI Group also provides market data and analytics products for building pricing models, developing trading strategies, and to manage, price, and revalue derivative portfolios.
It provides its services to institutional clients, including commercial and investment banks, insurance companies, and hedge funds primarily in New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Sydney.
GFI Group was founded by Michael Gooch in 1987.
The company is headquartered in New York City.
GFI Group, Inc.
operates as a majority owned subsidiary of Jersey Partners, Inc.
