Marex Spectron launched the first online marketplace for coal in 1999. Today it offers a hybrid electronic and phone brokering service for global coal swaps markets from its offices in London, Singapore and Washington State.
MarexSpectron was the first broker to offer Chinese swaps coverage in 2011 and has been a pioneer of dark spreads and coal options– brokering more than 100 million tonnes of swaptions in 2010.