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Posts on: July 2009

Van der Moolen puzzles again

45 comments / July 16, 2009

Van der Moolen serves as an easy target to make fun of. The listed trading firm has to inform the public on every bad move it makes. Today was another fine example. For unknown reasons the charming Hans Kroon decided not to join the board. A topic for speculation. Then the financial markets watchdog AFMRead more

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Employees wanted at trading firms

37 comments / July 14, 2009

Several Dutch market makers are desperately looking for traders and it-personnel. To achieve this they have joined forces and the Holland Financial Centre will launch a campaign to attract new talent. They will visit universities and… secondary schools. Let’s hope the newspaper FD misquoted the chairman Sjoerd van Keulen, because I honestly wouldn’t know whyRead more

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All Options chief accused of insider trading

4 comments / July 9, 2009

The Dutch business magazine Quote has raised questions whether All Options chief Allard Jakobs has been involved in insider trading. While the magazine isn’t famous for it’s financial expertise, it’s certainly having a focus on juicy stories on the niveau riche. However, there’s something silly with this story. Jakobs has bought 800.000 shares of KasbankRead more

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Mr Bean caught stealing Goldman’s code

5 comments / July 7, 2009

Developing story in the automated trading world. A few days ago the Russian immigrant Sergey Aleynikov(LinkedIn) was arrested on charge of stealing Goldman Sachs’ source code for high frequency automated trading software. This Aleynikov made 400k a year at GS and was responsible for “development of a distributed real-time co-located high-frequency trading platform”. He leftRead more

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