Real-time market news + reported trades + live bids and offers now in ONE platform
OPIS Trade Link is a collaboration between OPIS and digital marketplace OTC Direct that creates a venue for electronic trading of Renewable Identification Number (RIN) credits under the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) as well as California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) and Oregon Clean Fuels Program (CFP) credits. OTC Direct allows market participants to submit bids, offers and execute deals for all credits needed to show compliance with the RFS, with no transaction fees. OPIS Trade Link reported deals conducted on OTC Direct will be given preeminent weight in formulating the OPIS benchmarked daily assessment range. This ensures the most accurate, transparent compliance credit pricing.
We’ve updated OPIS Trade Link with the trusted daily news and reported trades from the OPIS editorial team – fed directly into the OTC Direct Markets trade platform – making it your most comprehensive and valuable source of biofuels and carbon credit information.
OPIS is the benchmark price reporting agency in the RIN market and its assessments for the two most-widely traded credits – D6 conventional ethanol and D4 biomass-based diesel RINs – are backed by ICE contracts. OPIS Trade Link, operating on the OTC Direct platform, will enhance transparency, price discovery and liquidity in the high-value RIN, LCFS and CFP credit markets in line with the IOSCO (PRA) Principles of Oil Price Reporting guidelines.
Providing a vital link between essential market intelligence and real-time trades executed on the OTC Direct Markets platform, with OPIS Trade Link each day, in near-real-time you will see:
All in conjunction with the bid, offer and deal activity you see on the screen. And what you see on the screen informs the OPIS assessments for the day ensuring the most accurate, transparent compliance credit pricing.
This single platform provides greater visibility into biofuels and carbon credit trading.
Request access and be among the first to leverage the advantage of executing RINs, LCFS and CFP trades on OTC Direct with OPIS Trade Link assessments and exclusive market insight.
RFS obligated parties, renewable fuel producers, and fuel distributors and retailers will see lower trading costs, increased visibility into the credit trading market, and improved daily price assessments from OPIS when they buy and sell compliance credits on the OTC Direct digital marketplace. Request access.
Get all the functionality of the desktop version – plus trade notifications – when you are on the go. Whether in a meeting, out to lunch, walking the dog … wherever you are you will stay up to date with market activity.
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OTC Direct is a digital online marketplace for over-the-counter (OTC) commodities. The technology has been in production for five years in agricultural markets and two years in biofuels markets in partnership with Blackstar Markets.
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