Optiver Boosts Stock Option Competition for Citadel, Susquehanna

Dutch trading powerhouse Optiver is hiring 40 traders in New York as it expands its presence in the world’s biggest equity options market.

The move is part of the firm’s push into lucrative US single-stock options market making, an area where it has long lagged behind competitors like Citadel Securities and Susquehanna International Group.

The market for options tied to individual stocks is bigger than the markets for indexes and exchange-traded funds combined, giving Optiver the potential to significantly increase its business. Overall, the options market has more than tripled in the past seven years as retail trading boomed ...