Company Background
Founded in 1985, Tradition Financial Services (TFS) is a market leader in the brokerage of financial and non-financial products. With offices worldwide, the Company covers currency options, equity derivatives, freight, precious metals, energy and environmental markets. TFS brokers a full spectrum of OTC energy and energy-related physical and derivative products (including electricity, natural gas, crude oil and refined products, coal, renewable certificates, emissions, allowances and credits and weather derivatives) and exchange-traded futures and options.
TFS is a subsidiary of Compagnie Financière Tradition, one of the world's three largest brokers in financial and commodity-related products and number one in continental Europe. Headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, CFT has a presence in 24 countries worldwide. With over 2,200 employees, CFT services 7,000 clients, which include global banks, financial institutions, and local authorities, major industrial and commercial corporations.
Compagnie Financière Tradition reaffirms its position as a world leader with consolidated turnover reaching EUR €687.4 Million in 2006. CFT's shares have been listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange(CFT) since 1973 and on the third compartment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 1999.
Both TFS and CFT are subsidiaries of VIEL & Cie (www.viel.com) which is based in Paris, France, and is continental Europe's top financial brokerage firm. We are transaction intermediaries and therefore are not credit rated.