Base Metals
Specialised servicing and risk management
We execute and clear a significant proportion of the market activity on the London Metal Exchange (LME), the world's largest non-ferrous metals exchange. We also provide access to the CME’s base metal futures and options contracts on its COMEX exchange and copper on the Shanghai International Energy Exchange (INE).
We provide base metals services for producers, consumers, fabricators and traders, brokers, financial institutions, hedge funds and investors in the commodity futures and options markets.
Our services
- LME, COMEX and INE execution and clearing
- Direct electronic trading solutions
- Ring trading and commentaries
- Real-time access to spreads and spread quotes
- Expert hedging and risk-management assistance
- LME options liquidity and modelling
- Average pricing
- Warrant trading
LME Floor
Our LME membership
We are one of only eight Category 1 (ring-dealing) members of the London Metal Exchange (LME). It's a unique market which, since 1877, has provided producers and consumers of metal with the ability to hedge their risk against rising or falling prices, as well as acting as a physical market of last resort. While most major markets have migrated fully to electronic trading, Category 1 members at the LME have the right to trade by open outcry. This face-to-face interaction helps manage the complexity of the contracts, providing both liquidity and transparency. Our membership also provides access to the inter-office telephone market between LME members, and direct access to the exchange’s electronic trading system.
