Posts Tagged ‘AFS’
Breaking : merger AFS and IWB
6 Sep 2012Wholesale brokers AFS and IWB agreed to merge their operations. The firm will continue under the flag of AFS. The brokers from IWB will join their former competitors in the exchange building. No idea on the details on the deal, but expect to read it in the papers tomorrow. Back in the good old days [...]
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- Tags: AFS, IWB
You’ve got to give them credit for this – the public relations department at Euronext is doing a great job. Confronted with a problem (empty trading floor), solving the problem (new tenants) and presenting the affair as great news ; “traders returning in numbers to Beursplein 5“. Royal princes Maxima will sound the opening bell [...]
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- Tags: AFS, Euronext, Leopark, MijnBroker, Nyenburgh
New brokers and traders at Beursplein 5 (update)
27 Jun 2011Outsiders usually have difficulty distinguishing a broker from a market maker, and this time it’s no different. Strange thing is even Euronext is confused. Every firm is a trading firm. Wouldn’t surprise me if some people at Euronext have the title “trader” on their business cards themselves. Anyway, the trading floor at the exchange building was [...]
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- Tags: AFS, Criterion, Euronext, Goldman Sachs, Leopark, Nyenburgh
Phanos forced to sell AFS
27 Jan 2011Real estate firm Phanos is definitely experiencing difficulties in the struggle for survival. It didn’t pay interest on their bonds. Generally speaking not a very positive signal. That’s bad luck for FC Utrecht and their players. Anyway, apart from sponsoring a football club and doing some real estate business – there’s a relevant angle on [...]
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Market maker LaBranche calls it quits
14 Jan 2011It has been for a while now since the tick size in Euronext’s options have been lowered to 1 cent in the options with lower premiums. This “premium based tick size” is into effect since June 2009 and expanded per April ’10. The profit margins have been under unprecedented pressure. On the other side of the [...]
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- Tags: AFS, IMC, LaBranche
- London Gregoire: Meijer shouldn't shave until TOM overtakes Euronext in the dutch options [...]
- TOM to expand in Europe - amsterdamtrader: [...] Euronext sues TOM on AEX Options [...] [...]
- Aad: Same shit over here. And really, we have al the specs to be fast enough. [...]
- ghostrider: truely tragic. condolences. [...]
- vikr: Hats off to RoCo. [...]
- VdM: Allmost on the same day another well known person from the trading community in Amsterdam passed awa [...]
- NRC: Advertisements in newspaper NRC: https://dl.dropbox.com/s/uwbjka8dgg26exh/20130406_NH_selectie_2_12. [...]
- anonymous: Agreed [...]
- anonymous: let's go to IMC since they pay good bonuses there [...]
- anonymous: Tibra is not doing well, and when the CFO, who knows everything about their finances, leaves this i [...]
