True Partner sold to Capitalists
Developments in greater China. The combined leftovers of Saen / All Options / IMC in Hong Kong has been sold to a Taiwan powerhouse.
Headed by Ralph van Put, these (mostly) Dutch derivative traders were combined in the firm True Partner. They want to be a true friend of everyone, doing everything. Asset management, software development, low latency gateways, consultancy, legal assistance, education, hedge fund : you name it, True Partner is doing it.
A true take over
Suddenly they found a large Taiwanese financial conglomerate, the brokerage Capital Futures. The firm Capital Futures is a listed company (market cap $120m), and their major shareholder is Capital Securities (market cap $1bln). Nobody said capitalists are creative in naming their firms. True announced last Monday April 27th the merger with Capital Futures. The combined entity will continue under the name Capital True Partner.
Everyone knows mergers don’t exist in the real world. Ralph van Put sold his firm.
A true salesman
The CEO of True Partner is Ralph van Put (his real name). Once upon a time he was an option marker maker in the open outcry era, and he founded trading software firm AtomPro. Was sold to Saen where he got CEO. After Saen lost their shirt on the Volkswagen squeeze, Saen was sold to All Options. When All Options got into trouble, Van Put was heading the Hong Kong office. He managed to buy it from Allard Jakobs for €0.3m.
He cut back on the expenses, ditched his Bentley and accepted a position at the Chinese university of Hong Kong. Last month 51% of the software development unit in Chengdu was sold to Capital, this time the asset management unit was sold. Plan is to introduce more hedge funds for customers in mainland China. Anyway, without knowing the financial details it definitely looks like Ralph has made a great deal again.
Atompro … almost as good as the XTW product developed by AOT. Almost … but not quite.
bentley? did he spend some time in britain that their ‘luxury habbits’ rubbed on him
he should stick with VW like rest of his countrymen
Bentley is actually a VW (since 1998)
ah okay, so bentley costs same as vw, okay okay
That is not what I wrote. I obviously wrote that when a VW crosses the channel it becomes a Bentley. And vice versa. Because “peoples car” sounds proletarian.
ah okay, so if VW buys Ferrari manufacturer tomorrow, you can call my 488 gts as VW, okay okay
Sorry to break it up to you: your gts is actually a Fiat.
gts is some Australian piece of crap; Ferrari^h^h^hFiat names its 488 “gtb”
yes, my gts is in fact a fiat, whatever puts you to sleep at night
and yes this gts has been manufactured right in heart of aussie land, aaww maate
http://thesupercarkids.com/ferrari-started-working-on-488-gts-spider/
That car is even uglier than a Fiat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Grapes