Pacific Financial Derivatives Ltd (PFD Markets), a New Zealand-registered company under registration number 973842, is 100% owned and controlled by a Japanese investor with extensive experience in managing large derivative institutions in Japan. This investor has brought and implemented advanced Japanese trading technology. Initially authorized in 1999 by the former Securities Commission as an Authorized Introducing Broker with the NZ Futures & Options Exchange, PFD was also an NZX Futures & Options Participant Firm until NZX ceased oversight of F&O participants in September 2011. In 2011, the Financial Markets Authority accredited the company as an Authorized Futures Dealer.
