TFS Green United States Green Markets
TFS Green United States Green Markets is the US-focused environmental and green markets broking desk of Tradition and TFS, part of Compagnie Financière Tradition.
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Overview
TFS Green United States Green Markets is the United States-focused environmental and green markets broking operation within Tradition and TFS, the interdealer broking arm of Compagnie Financière Tradition S.A. Tradition describes itself as one of the world's largest interdealer brokers in over-the-counter financial and commodity related products, with more than 2,300 employees and a presence in over 30 countries. TFS Green is the group's specialist environmental markets brand, covering emissions and renewable energy credits alongside related green commodity products. The brand sits within Tradition's Energy & Commodities product family. According to the company's product pages, the environmental products range includes emissions trading in EU allowances (EUA) and secondary CERs, emission options, and TFS Green coverage of CDM, JI and VERs, as well as renewable energy credits. These are brokered alongside coal, electricity and power, natural gas, oil and refined products, precious metals, pulp and paper, soft commodities, weather, petroleum & LPG and LNG. The US green markets desk applies this environmental markets expertise to American clients and US-related environmental instruments. TFS Green United States Green Markets is not a standalone listed company. It operates as part of the Tradition/TFS interdealer broking group, whose parent Compagnie Financière Tradition S.A. is listed on the Swiss stock exchange. The group is represented in over 30 countries and maintains broking desks and contacts across major financial centres including New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Mexico City and Mumbai. The US operation benefits from this global network while focusing on US green markets. Because it is a specialist desk rather than a consumer-facing brand, TFS Green United States Green Markets has a low public profile. Its identity is defined by its parent group's interdealer broking business and by the environmental products it covers. The brand is relevant to institutional clients active in carbon, emissions and renewable energy credit markets who require voice-broked execution, anonymity and access to liquidity in over-the-counter green markets.
History
TFS Green United States Green Markets is a specialist environmental markets broking operation within Tradition and TFS, the interdealer broking arm of Compagnie Financière Tradition S.A. Tradition describes itself as one of the world's largest interdealer brokers in over-the-counter financial and commodity related products, with over 2,300 employees and a global presence in 30 countries. The group's product pages list TFS Green as the brand covering CDM, JI and VERs within its environmental products range, alongside emissions trading in EUA and secondary CERs, emission options and renewable energy credits. The brand's history is inseparable from the growth of environmental and carbon markets and from the expansion of Tradition's energy and commodities broking business. As carbon trading developed into a global over-the-counter market, interdealer brokers such as Tradition and TFS built specialist desks to connect buyers and sellers of emissions allowances, project-based credits and renewable energy credits. TFS Green became the group's environmental markets identity, and the United States Green Markets desk applies that identity to US clients and US-related green instruments. Tradition's broader corporate history includes the combination of Tradition and TFS into one leading interdealer broking player, as described on the company's website. The group is represented in over 30 countries and maintains broking desks and contacts in major financial centres including New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Mexico City and Mumbai. Compagnie Financière Tradition S.A. is listed on the Swiss stock exchange, giving the group a public-market parent while TFS Green United States Green Markets itself operates as an internal specialist desk rather than a separately listed entity. Because TFS Green United States Green Markets is a business-to-business broking desk rather than a consumer brand, detailed public histories, founding dates and standalone financials are not published. Its story is best understood as part of Tradition's environmental products franchise and of the wider development of carbon and green commodity markets.
Products and positioning
Specialist US environmental and green markets interdealer broking desk within Tradition/TFS, providing voice-broked execution, anonymity and access to over-the-counter green markets.
Emissions trading (EUA, secondary CERs)
Broking of European Union allowances and secondary certified emission reductions within Tradition's environmental products range.
Emission options
Options broking on emissions instruments.
TFS Green - CDM, JI, VERs
TFS Green coverage of Clean Development Mechanism, Joint Implementation and Verified Emission Reduction credits.
Renewable energy credits
Broking of renewable energy credits within the energy and commodities product family.
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