IG Securities, the Japanese arm of IG Group, has expanded access to its vanilla options product, allowing corporate account holders to trade the instruments that were previously available only to retail investors.

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According to Thursday's announcement, corporate clients can now trade vanilla options across major asset classes, including stock indices, commodities, and volatility indices.

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IG Securities latest service supports both buying and selling of call and put options. Clients can choose from three expiry options, daily, weekly, and monthly, depending on their trading strategies.

In February, IG Securities rolled out the vanilla options for retail traders, offering daily, weekly, and monthly expiries with no trading fees across FX, stock index, and commodities. It is also preparing to extend the product to individual stocks, ETFs, and CFDs.

In this case, vanilla options refers to simple, standard options contracts that give the holder the right, but not the obligation, to buy (a call) or sell (a put) an underlying asset at a fixed price (the strike) on or before a set expiry date.

Their payoff is straightforward and depends only on the price of the underlying at expiry, without any extra conditions, path‑dependence, barriers, or complex payoff formulas available in “exotic” options.

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The latest expansion allows corporate accounts to employ a wider range of trading and hedging techniques, aligning with growing institutional interest in derivatives trading in Japan.

Future Expansion Plans

According to IG, the broker is also preparing to introduce vanilla options for individual stocks and listed investment product CFDs such as ETFs.

The latest move sits within a gradual shift among FX/CFD brokers in Japan from pure leveraged CFD and spot FX toward more exchange-style derivatives and options-style risk tools. Vanilla options already exist at a few competitors, such as AvaTrade’s AvaOptions, but they are still a niche compared with mainstream FX and index CFDs.

Ava Trade Japan K.K. offers AvaOptions, which provides vanilla FX options to Japanese clients under FSA regulation . Saxo runs an FX vanilla options book for Japanese and Asia-based clients, with European-style vanilla options across major FX pairs and maturities from 1 day to 12 months.