CSC Commodities

CSC Commodities operates as a global commodity derivatives specialist, founded in 2013 by Bastien Declercq and Alan Newman. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom, with additional offices in New York, Amsterdam, Dubai, and Singapore. In January 2019, Marex Spectron, a global commodities broker now known as Marex Group, acquired CSC Commodities from BGC European Holdings to enhance its energy market-making capabilities.

The company provides liquidity and market-leading pricing for a wide range of products. Its core business involves making markets and trading in oil-related derivatives, spanning crude oil, fuel oil, distillates, and light ends. CSC Commodities also has expertise in freight, natural gas, agricultural markets, and a significant presence in environmental products, including emissions, renewables, biofuels, and biogas. The business model centers on providing tailor-made derivatives, allowing clients such as producers, refiners, and end-users to select precise product specifications to meet their hedging needs. Trading strategies focus on arbitrage, flow dislocations, fundamentals, and momentum trading.

As a division of Marex, CSC Commodities offers its clients direct access to a dedicated trading team and facilitates trading either bilaterally or cleared through major global exchanges like ICE, CME, EEX, and SGX. The firm trades on its own account and serves a broad client base dealing in commodity derivatives.

Keywords: commodity derivatives, energy trading, environmental commodities, oil derivatives, market making, freight derivatives, biofuels trading, emissions trading, renewable energy markets, hedging solutions, commodity brokerage, agricultural derivatives, biogas markets, crude oil trading, refined products, natural gas trading, arbitrage, liquidity provider, distillates, freight trading