BinckBank N.V.
BinckBank N.V. is a full-service online bank for investors and is among the top 5 in Europe. As an online broker, BinckBank offers
its clients fast and low-cost access to all of the world's major financial markets. Moreover, as a bank, BinckBank
offers support to its clients concerning management of their assets by providing online advice and asset management services plus
online savings. In addition to the fast and low-cost execution of orders, professional clients are also offered the administrative
processing of securities and cash transactions either by means of an insourcing variant (BPO) or the licensing of the software concerned.
BinckBank is the largest, independent Dutch online investment bank with a listing on NYSE Euronext Amsterdam. The business has branches
in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Spain and, as of 31 December 2008, had 559 employees.
BinckBank was founded in 2000 and at the end of Q1 2009 was serving more than 300,000 investors and savers.
BinckBank's operations are handled by two business units: Retail and Professional Services.
Optiver
Since having been founded in Amsterdam in 1986, Optiver has grown to become one of the world's leading liquidity providers. Optiver's long-term strategy is focused
on being active on a large number of (traditional and alternative) trading platforms in listed shares, bonds, foreign currency, futures contracts and
derivatives. Optiver subscribes to the objectives of the European Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), striving for markets that are as
transparent and efficient as possible. At present, Optiver has offices in Amsterdam, Chicago, Hong Kong, Sydney and Taipei, thus covering all time zones,
enabling trading 24 hours a day.
Optiver operates in the Netherlands and in the rest of Europe as a liquidity provider and provides bid and offer prices on a variety of stock
and derivatives exchanges. Optiver is active on NYSE Euronext Amsterdam in the area of derivatives trading as a Primary Market Maker and as a
Competitive Market Maker. Additionally, Optiver is one of the largest players in the NYSE Euronext Cash segment (equities) and is active
on all the other European equities and derivatives platforms, such as the London Stock Exchange, Xetra, Eurex, Virt-X and Chi-X.
Trading in the United States is conducted entirely from Chicago. The US office is active on the derivatives exchanges of CBOT,
NYSE Arca, CME, ISE, CBOE and BOX but also trades on US stock exchanges such as NYSE and NASDAQ. Optiver is one of the biggest
players on the Australian options market. With offices in Sydney, Hong Kong and Taipei, the company also trades on the Hong Kong,
Taiwanese, Japanese and Korean financial markets.
Worldwide, Optiver has in excess of 600 employees continually striving to offer the best price to end-investors.