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  • More than 350 Europe based employees in Trading, IT & Business Operations
  • Handles over 3000 phone calls daily in the Wholesale trading market
  • Largest number of PMM’s (Primary Market Maker) on Euronext Amsterdam
  • Optiver named as Expat Employer of the Year!
  • Expat counter: Optiver represents over 32 nationalities

News & Press

  • 2010-04-06 TOM now also open for third parties

  • TOM B.V., The Order Machine, has received a license from Dutch regulator AFM for operating a Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF) in cash equities.
    By obtaining this license other market participants in addition to the founders of TOM, BinckBank and Optiver, will be able to connect to the trading platform of TOM.
    CEO Willem Meijer: ?Obtaining the MTF-license from the AFM is an important milestone for TOM. Banks, brokers and liquidity providers can now join our platform. They will obtain access to excellent liquidity at significantly lower transaction costs."
    TOM expects to act as MTF in derivatives before the end of this year.

  • 2010-03-24 Optiver - Expat Employer of the Year.

  • We are very proud and feel honoured to announce that yesterday Optiver was announced as the winner of the Expat Employer of the Year.
    The award, created to recognise the efforts and successes of the international and expat community in the Netherlands, was handed over to Optiver at Business University Nyenrode. Optiver carried off the award 'for their people-oriented approach to their expat and international employees'.
    The evidence submitted during nominations and the amount of support shown by the public proved Optiver to be "an outstanding employer" and one that even the jury felt drawn to work for!ed to have received this award. Optiver employs over 32 nationalities, representing approximately half of the company.

    Read more on the Expat awards 2010 via Expatica, Dutch News, Wereld Omroep or Nyenrode.

  • 2009-06-24 BinckBank and Optiver launch TOM

    The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) has given TOM - The Order Machine, a 50/50 joint venture between BinckBank and Optiver, a broker licence. TOM is a combination of a Best Execution Service, focusing on the best execution for equities and a venue, able to fac

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  • 2008-01-10 Banks, trading firms take minority stake in Chi-X

    A group of 13 banks and trading firms has taken a minority equity stake in Instinet's MiFID-compliant alternative trading facility, Chi-X Europe. Instinet said in April - when Chi-X Europe was launched - that it was seeking equity partners. In today's statement the firm, which is owned by Japanese b

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