Barclays Capital is a market leader in the global derivatives marketplace, providing fully-integrated solutions across all the major equity-linked segments to deliver innovative equity, structured and fund-linked derivative solutions to clients. Our innovative products enable clients to achieve a variety of investment objectives, including management of risk exposure, income generation, access to emerging or developing markets, indexation and benchmarking, and diversification. The business is coordinated with industry-leading cash traders.

With five regional structuring hubs, our derivatives franchise is recognised as a market leader in structured equity derivative products by Risk, MTN-i, Structured Products and Derivatives Week, among others.

Derivatives encompass a wide array of versatile investment products which range from simple investment, risk management and hedging products, to structured investment products that are designed to provide specific pay-outs. We offer flow products for institutional investors and hedge funds, structured products for retail distributors and private banks, asset/liability management solutions for financial institutions and equity derivative products for corporate investors.

Barclays Capital is an industry leader in equity and hybrid derivatives offering a wide range of products to meet the changing needs of our clients and optimise income generation, hedging and indexation. We have over 270 structurers and traders globally, focusing solely on equity derivatives. Our structuring capability includes a multitude of pure equity underlyings as well as combining equity exposure with other asset classes.

We provide distinctive market commentary, analysis and trade ideas which are all targeted specifically to the derivatives market. Clients receive access to intraday commentary that provides market color on volatility, product briefs that explain new or popular products, current implied volatility data that identifies the largest volatility movers, historical implied volatility data to gauge relative value, and option volume tools to assess liquidity and detect irregular trading patterns. Our research is distinguished by its focus on trade idea generation and strategies based on fundamental views but monetised through derivatives.

Barclays Capital is ranked #1 in Equity Derivatives Research in Institutional Investor’s 2008 All-America Research Team survey. Our client-driven model leverages Barclays Capital multi-disciplinary research across sectors and assets to come up with actionable trade ideas.