The first cleared salmon option traded at Fish Pool

- This is a historic moment for financial salmon, says CEO in Fish Pool ASA, Søren Martens in a release from the company. - We only recently opened the market for options but expect an increased interest for trading when introducing a Market Maker in the near future. The Market Maker will continuously place a spread for Call and Put options" he continues. It is possible to trade options, both bilateral and cleared at Fish Pool. Participants in the cleared market are trading anonymously. For the first cleared option, the two parties have accepted to come forward and tell who they are and why they traded this option: The option was written by Johan Andreassen in Villa Group Invest AS.

The buyer of the option was the Norwegian investment bank Pareto who acted on behalf of a client.