Cutting-edge risk management solutions for sophisticated partners

About us

a portal to global markets

electrum is the trading division of OCIM Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of OCIM Finance SA. Our highly experienced team designs and implements tailor-made hedging solutions on global capital markets, from strategic metals and currencies to interest rates and equities. We provide the group’s various entities with dynamic strategies and around the clock execution enabling our partners to focus on their core business while we handle their market exposure. Capitalizing on our in-house expertise, we optimise and de-risk their market transactions so they operate with serenity.

Our conviction

We strongly believe that flexible risk solutions can deliver enhanced and sustainable returns for companies, particularly in period of heightened volatility.

At Electrum, we turn
variance into opportunities.

Our approach

Our trading strategies are based on FOUR pilars

  1. Cutting-edge data driven technology
  2. SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO GLOBAL MARKETS
  3. FundaMental expeRtise on the undeRlying MaRkets
  4. Efficient execution on OTC and oRganised MaRkets

Proprietary Strategies

Our elite team of quants and traders identify, evaluate, and constantly implement short-dated trading opportunities. We currently run strategies in precious metals and foreign exchange to construct a diversified portfolio of systematic and discretionary positions.

Relative value

Our statistical tools allow us to quickly scan asset classes for opportunities by modelling trends and identifying pricing deviations.

Quantitative models

Through machine learning, we process large sets of financial data and decompose pricing based on variational mode.

Behavioural trading

We analyse and measure specific trend, momentum and exhaustion patterns thanks to effective programming.

Thematic

We run scenario analysis and assign probabilities to macro events. We identify skew and take directional discretionary positions.

Risks & Controls

Our team develops and executes systematic and semi-systematic strategies that fit our risk and return characteristics. All trades are entered and exited in strict obedience to our Risk & Investment Policy under the supervision of our Chief Financial Officer and the authority of our Chief Executive Officer.

Portfolio Risk

Our policy defines boundaries of risk tolerance, net open positions, maximum tenor, drawdown, and potential future exposure of our trading books. We periodically stress test our portfolio against historical and specifically designed adverse scenario so that we remain in control of both our portfolio intrinsic risk and counterparty default risk.

Valuation

Our trading books are marked daily by an independent valuation team.

Collateral

We trade on a fully collateralized basis with about ten market counterparties across geographies.

Liquidity

Beyond our minimum liquidity requirements at entity level, we have access to an immediate cash pooling at parent level and the group liquidity position is monitored daily.

Our team

Étienne Bossu
Chief Trading Officer
MAXIME DENTROUX
Chief Operating Officer