Who are our Members?

Our members are institutions only, represented by one voting delegate and other non-voting delegates, active in or concerned with futures and options trading.

The Association offers the following types of membership:

Type "B" Members

This category includes:

commission houses, clearing brokers, banks and financial institutions with clearing membership and, more generally, any company which is or represents a commission house and holds a membership at a recognized futures and options exchange,
brokers, i.e. persons or bodies with no direct access to an exchange for their trading and/or their clearing operations, but whose activity is to trade on behalf of their clients, and whose ethics and/or reputation are comparable to those of a commission house linked to an exchange,
banks and financial institutions,
insurance companies,
pension funds,
commodity and derivatives traders, and, more generally,
any company or institution which, on its own account, conducts forward or spot transactions on an official or secondary market (including commodity markets and all types of derivatives markets) in order to hedge their business risks.