Since being introduced to retail investors in UK in 1998, CFDs have witnessed a fast international proliferation. Originally, these over-the-counter financial instruments were developed to avoid ‚stamp duty‘ (tax). Subsequently, the global market success has been based on a variety of competitive product advantages, in particular sophisticated trading platforms. Moreover, CFDs are easy to understand and transparent derivatives which enable cost efficient and yet tailored trading strategies for a broad range of underlyings (shares, indices, foreign currencies, commodities, interest rates, etc.)

In a current market study, we find that even mature markets offer attractive growth potential for incumbents and new entrants. In addition, further countries provide promising conditions for the introduction of CFD trading. According to industry experts, the global transaction volume of CFD trades is expected to top 3 trillion Euro (notional value) in 2012. In the past 5 years the transaction volume increased by an average annual growth rate of 20 %. Please find an excerpt of the study results in the download section on the right side.

As a management consultancy with a strong focus on implementation projects, METIS assists clients in all phases of launching a CFD market offering – starting from strategy development to functional specification, monitoring of application development/integration, process design to a successful ‘go live’. Our modular service offering can be tailored to the individual situation and needs of your financial institution: