Sell-Side Technology Awards 2025: Best sell-side OTC trading initiative—Marex Solutions

Overview

Agile is a full-service platform built in-house by Marex Solutions, a manufacturer and distributor of bespoke derivative products, designed for two use-cases:

• Hedging solutions, where Agile manages the commodity and currency hedging portfolios of corporates, offering seamless execution, real-time transparency and full control throughout the hedging lifecycle
• Financial products, where Agile enables investors to structure, price, and execute custom financial instruments

Agile is designed to address the challenges of complexity and opacity in both markets.

Click here for a testimonial from Marex client Gilles Corbel, founding partner at FinanzLab.

The solution  

Agile eliminates the complexity in the risk management for hedging portfolios and enables investors to customize the underlying, payoff, and currency of structured products themselves by providing full transparency, real-time execution, and automation. The Agile interface and automated lifecycle management streamline operations, while risk controls ensure efficiency, accuracy, and flexibility in volatile markets. Agile’s integration of advanced tools allows clients to make informed decisions confidently.

Secret sauce  

Agile integrates both hedging and investment solutions offering a high level of customization, transparency and automation, allowing users to tailor solutions to their specific risk profiles. The platform supports real-time pricing, custom structuring and automated risk controls across multiple asset classes. Its underlying technology, broad asset coverage and extensive automation are what help differentiate it from other similar front-office offerings on the market.

Recent milestones

• Entered Asian markets with newly available energy derivatives
• Added crypto structured products and gained significant traction across Asia-Pacific
• Implemented technology upgrades to enhance platform performance, improving scalability and user experience

Future objectives

Marex Solutions plans to:

• Expand Agile’s asset coverage by adding new FX, emissions, and structured digital assets to meet evolving client needs
• Enhance automation capabilities to reduce operational complexity and streamline execution
• Strengthen institutional adoption of Agile through partnerships

Why they won

London-based Marex Solutions wins its first ever award across WatersTechnology’s awards portfolio by emerging on top in the best sell-side OTC trading initiative category in this year’s Sell-Side Technology Awards, although hawk-eyed readers will note that Marex, part of the same business, won the best market data provider (broker) category in this year’s Inside Market Data and Inside Reference Data Awards. Marex Solutions’ win is thanks to its outstanding Agile platform, designed to simplify and support firms’ risk management practices around hedging portfolios, enabling them to customize the underlying, pay-off, and currency of structured products, while simultaneously providing transparency and real-time execution.

Given the quality of Marex Solutions’ entry and the extent to which Agile is clearly addressing real-world challenges for its users, who would bet against the firm making it two wins on the bounce in this niche but always closely contested category?