Equity Trading

After significant investment in our sales trading and trading teams, Berenberg now operates top ten, hi-touch, sales trading desk specialising in UK & European Equities, covering over 700 Institutional trading desks.

We have a team of experienced, motivated, value accretive and well-connected sales traders – including what is now a top three ranked Risk-Arb Sales Trading team, and whilst the majority of the team sit in London, we also have teams in Hamburg, Paris, Boston and New York.

Berenberg is a leading Pan-European broker offering first-class cash-equity execution services to its global institutional customer base that are being provided through different and segregated coverage channels. Trading teams are distributed across London, Hamburg and New York (Berenberg Capital Markets LLC) with highly experienced staff looking after the execution.

Our hightouch trading desks are helping our clients to find block liquidity in fragmented markets and are managing the execution of their trades with low market impact leveraging a large network of liquidity access.

Berenberg’s comprehensive electronic offering includes Global Portfolio Trading, Data-Driven Algorithmic Strategies, and ETF Liquidity Aggregation. In addition to our sophisticated technology suite, clients benefit from our global coverage which provides access to over 50 markets and 90 destination venues.

The bank has direct memberships at Deutsche Boerse, London Stock Exchange, Euronext, CBOE Europe, Turquoise, SIX Swiss Exchange, Nasdaq OMX Nordic, Wiener Boerse, Borsa Italiana amongst other trading venues and keeps continuously extending its access matrix.

In addition to our equity trading, we offer institutional investors our service for listed derivatives (options/futures). Berenberg acts as an independent execution broker that assists trade on the derivatives exchanges around the world.

Thanks to our extensive network and our leading position in equity trading, we can offer investors a comprehensive trading service for listed derivatives. Block trades, especially on Eurex, combined with the underlying (delta-hedge) offer significant added value for institutional investors in executing the derivatives transaction.