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
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
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
Binck and Optiver announced the introduction of their joint venture a week ago. Actually, both companies didn’t want to burn their fingers on this apparently legal deal to corner the market.They decided to hire a professional in selling the impossible message. Enter the public relations firm Carl Byoir & Associates. When you need an externalRead more
In the Netherlands there’s just one financial newspaper, “Het Financieele Dagblad“, FD for short. They have one specialist on financial derivatives, mister Conijn. Reading through the pages of the FD last week I discovered a juicy story. Something about a lawsuit between All Options and Euronext. Actually, it was the very same story published aRead more
