Facts & News Amsterdam
  • More than 350 Europe based employees in Trading, IT & Business Operations
  • Handles over 3000 phone calls daily in the Wholesale trading market
  • Largest number of PMM’s (Primary Market Maker) on Euronext Amsterdam
  • Optiver named as Expat Employer of the Year!
  • Expat counter: Optiver represents over 32 nationalities

What makes us different

Optiver has a substantial competitive advantage over the markets in electronic screen based trading. The long and continued devotion of effort and resources towards IT in collaboration with trading mean high frequency strategies can be employed with greater efficiency than our rivals now and in the future. It enables arbitrage activities to take place around the market making and the development of efficient cross product strategies.

All financial firms are a mixture of some ideas that they hope they can protect over time and at the heart, people that will keep them in front with their work and ideas. Being profitable and successful over time depends on getting and growing people with a cultural fit, talent and enthusiasm.