Saxo Bank Launches Contract Options

Hellerup, Denmark (ots/PRNewswire) -

Saxo Bank, the online trading and investment specialist, expands
its derivatives offeringby introducing Contract Options.

Contract Options is a trading product that includes listed
options on stock indices, commodities, interest rates, currencies and
bonds. The products are available on the Bank's trading platforms;
SaxoTrader, SaxoWebTrader and MobileTrader.

New features available through the platforms when trading
Contract Options include:

- A new Options Chain which offers an overview of option prices across
strikes and maturities, giving easy access to trading
- Online exercise of Options through the position list
- Margin-netting across option legs which improve the margin required when
trading option strategies on an instrument
- Cross-product margin utilisation which allows the use ofcash stocks as margin
collateral for Contract Option trading
- Support for Limit, Stop and Market orders

Patrice Henault, Product Manager at Saxo Bank, comments: "More
and more of our risk-aware clients use Contract Options to diversify
their portfolios, which is why we have added this new tool. Although
an Option is considered an investment product that is highly complex
and bears high risk, we believe investors should be offered all
instrumentsavailable to get the most out of the markets. With
Contract Options we have added another powerful tool to our vast
existingoffering of investment products.

"Saxo Bank's analysts believe that precious metals like gold will
continue to benefit from continued risk aversion in 2012.They also
see good potential for higher prices, especially among commodities
with constrained supply. Allowing investors to access the global
optionsmarkets including gold, oil and other commodities, currencies,
interest rates, bonds and major stock indicesis of high importance to
investors in the current climate, and this new addition to our
platforms will deliver significant value to investors."

About Saxo Bank

Saxo Bank is a leading online trading and investment specialist.
A fully licensed and regulated European bank, Saxo Bank enables
private investors and institutional clients to do Forex Trading
[http://www.saxobank.com/trading-products/forex ] and trade, CFDs,
ETFs, Stocks, Futures
[http://www.saxobank.com/trading-products/futures ], Options and
other derivatives via three specialised and fully integrated trading
platforms; the browser-based SaxoWebTrader, the downloadable
SaxoTrader and theSaxoMobileTrader application available in over 20
languages. Saxo Bank also offers professional portfolio and fund
management through Saxo Asset Management who accommodates high-net
worth private clients and institutional investors and provides
banking services and advice to retail clients through Saxo
Privatbank.The Saxo Bank Group is headquartered in Copenhagen with
offices throughout Europe, Asia, Middle East, Latin America and
Australia.

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Contact:
Media enquiries: Kasper Elbjørn, Head of Group Public Relations,
+45-3065-4300, press@saxobank.com