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Trade

Risk solutions and market access for producers, consumers, financial institutions and investors

We provide round-the-clock trading, price-making and distribution across commodities and financial markets.

$A6.2 billion

asset finance portfolio1

~9 billion

cubic feet of natural gas volume traded across North America daily2

House of the Year

Derivatives3 4
Oil and Products3 4
Natural Gas/LNG3
Emissions4
Commodity Trade Finance3

Our areas of focus

In a complex global market, we provide comprehensive risk management, lending and financing, and physical execution and logistics services to clients.

We have capabilities across the commodities value chain, connecting producers, consumers, investors and merchants, and working with our clients to manage risk, finance operations and gain strategic insight into their businesses and the markets in which they operate. We also offer commodity-based index products to institutional investors.

Our in-house schedulers, structurers, logistics experts, geologists, meteorologists and mining and petroleum engineers help our clients manage specific risks.

We’re a longstanding provider of foreign exchange, providing spot and FX derivatives on all major currency pairs. In fixed income, we specialise in interest rate hedging, debt securities and debt capital markets. We have deep expertise in ANZ currencies and fixed income, US high-yield and distressed credit and Asian and emerging markets.

We’re a full-service futures broker, specialist in execution, clearing and financing solutions for energy, freight, grains and soft commodities as well as a market-leading position in Australian interest rates.

Our equities business is a focused, Asia-Pacific platform, delivering market access across cash, equity derivatives, research, syndication, corporate access and equity finance. We also provide retail clients with access to the dynamic and growing warrants market in Asia.

We offer 24-hour service and strong deal execution, as well as specialist, proprietary trading platforms. We also offer direct access to exchanges and liquidity venues and have more than 30 years’ commitment to foreign exchange, futures and equities clients. 

Our impact

Operational Briefing 2022: Our capabilities in shipping finance

Learn more about our specialist shipping finance capabilities.

2023 Global Economic and Market Mid-Year Outlook

Over the past couple of years, the global economy has experienced one of the most unusual periods in recorded history. While major central banks have now responded with the largest and fastest increase in policy interest rates seen in decades, monetary policy works in long and variable lags, and, as Ric Deverell,  Macquarie's Chief Economist and Head of Net Zero, explains, the full impact of monetary tightening on the global economy is still yet to be felt.

  1. Commodities and Global Markets as at 31 March 2023.
  2. Fiscal year ending 31 March 2023.
  3. Energy Risk Awards 2022.
  4. Energy Risk Asia Awards 2022.