Akuna Capital is a proprietary trading firm specializing in derivatives market-making and arbitrage opportunities. The company leverages technology and quantitative research to provide liquidity in financial markets.

Akuna Capital

Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on cutting-edge technology, data driven decisions and automation. Our core competency is providing liquidity as an options market-maker – meaning we provide competitive quotes that we are willing to both buy and sell. To do this successfully we design and implement our own low latency technologies, trading strategies and mathematical models.

Our Founding Partners first conceptualized Akuna in their hometown of Sydney. They opened the firm’s first office in 2011 in the heart of the derivatives industry and the options capital of the world – Chicago. Today, Akuna is proud to operate from additional offices in Sydney, Shanghai, and London.

We are the leading options market-maker to successfully enter the industry in recent years with sustainable growth. By providing more liquidity to the markets through rapid innovation, we have the advantage of youth in remaining nimble and agile in an ever-changing competitive landscape.

Akuna has no clients or external investors, we trade only with the company’s capital. We have dozens of employee-shareholders and this number continues to grow.

We are really proud of what we have accomplished since inception, but even more excited for all that lies ahead of us. We are still building, accessing new markets, trading new products, and creating new strategies, giving you the opportunity to be involved in shaping the future of Akuna. Indeed, the great majority of Akuna’s growth profile is ahead of us.

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Akuna encourages employees to participate in company-sponsored social clubs and have the opportunity to get involved, pick up a new hobby, or connect with colleagues outside of the office. The Akuna Chess Club recently gathered together to compete in a virtual Chess Simul where they welcomed all players and spectators to both challenge and learn from Grand Master Steven Zierk! #akunaclubspotlight

The ladies of Akuna had a wonderful evening celebrating International Women’s Day! With guidance from Boxed Expressions-Team Building Culinary Experiences, they created unique charcuterie boards that looked beautiful and tasted even better. Thank you to the women of Akuna for all that you do!

Check out two campus events we participated in during the month of February! We always enjoy partaking in new events and connecting with students along the way!

We had a great afternoon inviting Quant Illinois from UIUC to our Chicago office for a guided tour and panel session where members from our Tech and Trading departments were able to talk about their experience at Akuna and answer additional questions from the students!

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