London 31 July 2025 – Marex, a diversified global financial services platform, and GFO-X, the UK’s first FCA-regulated and centrally cleared digital asset derivatives trading venue, are pleased to announce their strategic partnership to meet growing institutional demand for secure, regulated access to digital asset derivatives.
As part of this partnership, Marex has committed to joining GFO-X as a Participant and will also join LCH SA’s DigitalAssetClear service as a Clearing Member, subject to the completion of LCH onboarding processes. Marex is targeting a go-live date in mid-September 2025.
Through this integration, Marex clients will gain access to Bitcoin index futures and options traded on GFO-X and centrally cleared via LCH DigitalAssetClear, ensuring robust risk management, collateral optimisation, and counterparty protection aligned with global financial standards.
Marex’s strategic partnership with GFO-X, focused on both existing and future opportunities in the digital asset derivatives space, reflects the growing institutional demand for a secure and regulated digital asset infrastructure.
“We are delighted to welcome Marex to the GFO-X ecosystem. Their deep expertise in derivatives and strong global client base make them a tremendous partner in our mission to deliver institutional-grade digital asset market access. Marex’s commitment reflects the rapidly growing demand and we look forward to working closely with them to scale the regulated, centrally cleared crypto derivatives market.”
Arnab Sen
CEO and Co-Founder, GFO-X
“We are excited to be partnering with GFO-X on this new venture. This partnership will allow us to meet the increasing demand for digital asset derivatives, allowing us to best meet our clients’ needs.”
Thomas Texier
Global Head of Clearing, Marex
The partnership reflects a shared vision for a secure and scalable market structure that supports the stable long-term development of institutional digital asset derivatives.
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About Marex
Marex Group plc (NASDAQ: MRX) is a diversified global financial services platform providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients across energy, commodities and financial markets. The Group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four services: Clearing, Agency and Execution, Market Making and Hedging and Investment Solutions. It has a leading franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, with access to 60 exchanges. The Group provides access to the world’s major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers. With more than 40 offices worldwide, the Group has over 2,400 employees across Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. For more information visit www.marex.com.
About GFO-X
GFO-X is the UK’s first regulated and centrally cleared trading venue dedicated to digital asset derivatives.
GFO-X provides comprehensive risk management with clearing provided by the London Stock Exchange Group’s (LSEG) LCH SA DigitalAssetClear.
Combining proprietary high-performance technology with industry-leading partnerships and infrastructure, GFO-X delivers the requirements necessary to grow the institutional digital asset derivatives market.
Backed by M&G Investments and authorised by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in 2022, GFO-X’s regulation-first approach has enabled it to partner with some of the largest financial institutions in the world.
GFO-X believes that the digital asset futures and options markets will grow exponentially over the coming years as the asset class matures and more sophisticated investors begin to participate in greater size. By solving market constraints such as counterparty risks and technology challenges, GFO-X was established to deliver a robust market structure and innovative products to propel the next leg of growth of the digital asset ecosystem.