Selling options on euro people…

You won't see these options being traded on the floor at Liffe, but Shahram Nikpour at Bossard Consultants thinks that options on information technology firms are already hot property.

You won’t see these options being traded on the floor at Liffe, but Shahram Nikpour at Bossard Consultants thinks that options on information technology firms are already hot property.

Why? Because of Emu.

The idea behind such options is that certain American and German banks are hoping to bypass the inevitable shortage of IT and software consultants’ time by locking them into contracts now, which they can call on when needed ­ if the euro gets off the ground.

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