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logo
legal form Besloten Vennootschap (BV)
founding 1986
Seat Amsterdam , Netherlands
management Johann Kaemingk
( Chairman )
Number of employees approx. 600 (2010)
sales 263 million euros (2009)
Branch Market maker
Website www.optiver.com

Optiver is an Amsterdam- based company with offices in Chicago and Sydney . The company specializes in market making , high frequency trading and proprietary trading with derivatives such as options , specialized. It is entirely privately owned.

Companies

Optiver was founded in 1986 by today's Chairman Johann Kaemingk in Amsterdam. After sales of shares to investors, the business area was expanded to Frankfurt am Main , Paris and London in 1990 . In the further course of the expansion, the still existing office in Sydney was opened in 1996 and the previously issued shares were bought back by the end of 1998. By 2003, the New York City branch , which opened in 1999 , was completely relocated to Chicago. In 2009 the company made a profit of 6.3 million euros. In 2014 the company made a profit of 267.7 million euros.

criticism

In 2008 the company was reported by the Nymex Securities and Exchange Commission for manipulating the price of oil.

Individual evidence

  1. Optiver Facts & Figures ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.optiver.com
  2. http://www.amsterdamtrader.com/2010/07/optivers-profits-in-free-fall.html
  3. a b http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/business/global/04optiver.html?pagewanted=all
  4. Optiver History ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.optiver.com
  5. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/deae9a60-bc34-11df-8c02-00144feab49a.html#axzz1p5gt7Q8g
  6. Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.optiver.com