Company Overview
About TFS
Founded in 1985, Tradition Financial Services (TFS) is a market leader in the inter-dealer brokering of OTC physical and derivative products. With offices in the world's major financial centers, the Company covers global foreign exchange, commodity, equity, freight, precious metals, property and pulp & paper markets. Additionally, the TFS Energy division brokers energy and derivative products. TFS's extensive client base includes banks and financial institutions, energy companies and utilities, insurance companies, paper producers and printers, shipping and chartering firms, newspaper and media groups, and leading consumer products companies.
About TFS Energy
TFS Energy brokers a full spectrum of energy and energy-related markets with OTC businesses operational globally in electricity, natural gas, crude oil and refined products, coal, environmental products, and weather derivatives. Its full-service desks in Stamford, New York, Houston, London, Frankfurt, Sydney, Singapore and Johannesburg provide futures and OTC specialist trade execution, research and market analysis to hundreds of investment banks, commercial banks, energy producers, utilities, trading companies and consumers. Today, it employs over 125 voice brokers, and has dedicated NYMEX floor clerks in natural gas and crude oil.
TFS Energy was established in 1989 to specialize in derivatives across the whole energy spectrum. In August of 2000, TFS's U.S. subsidiary TFS, Inc. merged with the former energy group of Sakura Dellsher Inc. (SDI Energy) to form TFS Energy, LLC, which further enhanced its coverage of U.S.-based energy markets.
About Compagnie Financière Tradition (CFT)
TFS is part of Compagnie Financière Tradition (CFT), one of the world’s top three brokers in OTC financial (money markets, bond markets, interest rate, currency and credit derivatives, equity derivatives, exchange-traded products) and non-financial products (energy, precious metals, pulp and paper, etc.), and number one in continental Europe. Headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, CFT has a presence in 21 countries worldwide. With over 2,200 employees, CFT services its 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 786.1 million euro in 2003. 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.
Tradition’s
2006 Annual Report in PDF format
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