InnovationQuarter

Week of Regional Entrepreneurship -  InnovationQuarter

From 20 August to 24 August, the gong ceremony at Beursplein 5 focuses on the activity and entrepreneurship in the various regions in the Netherlands. During the Week of the Regional Entrepreneurship, Euronext highlights the important role of regional development agencies (ROMs). InnovationQuarter, the regional development agency for Zuid-Holland, sounds the gong for the Roadmap Next Economy (RNE). The RNE is the appealing long-term vision for the region of West Holland. The RNE focuses on the digitisation of the economy, energy transition, circular economy, next education and how society should deal with these transitions. Implementation of the vision will make the region of West Holland a strong and sustainable new economy and society, ready for the future.

Ria Oonk, transition manager Roadmap Next Economy, opens the trading day at the Amsterdam exchange with the traditional sounding of the gong. The Strategy Group RNE and the RNE implementation teams are driving system interventions and breakthrough projects that are needed to accelerate and manage the transition. The RNE implementation team at InnovationQuarter connects governments, researchers and entrepreneurs to accelerate the Next Economy. The RNE team can support governments, researchers and entrepreneurs by bringing together various stakeholders and initiatives; sharing knowledge about the transition, business development and facilitating access to finance.

For more information: www.roadmapnexteconomy.com

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Impuls Zeeland

Week of Regional Entrepreneurship -  Impuls Zeeland

From 20 August to 24 August, the gong ceremony at Beursplein 5 focuses on the activity and entrepreneurship in the various regions in the Netherlands. During the Week of the Regional Entrepreneurship, Euronext highlights the important role of regional development agencies (ROMs). NV Economische Impuls Zeeland (Impuls) kicks off the week and opens trading. Managing director Dick ten Voorde sounds the gong.

With this, the Zeeland development company wants to underline the importance of regional development companies for the Dutch economy. The national government also sees this importance and contributes 35 million euros to this. Although there are economic opportunities in Zeeland for the taking, there are also a number of significant tasks. The Structural Reinforcement and Employment Committee presented the opportunities and threats for Zeeland. This advice led to a contribution of 35 million euros from the government for economic structure-strengthening projects. One of these projects is the Zeeland Participation Fund. This means that entrepreneurs can soon call on 6.5 million euros. The fund provides risk capital for growing companies with a substantial impact on the Zeeland economy and employment.

For more information: www.impulszeeland.nl

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KvK international entrepreneurship

KVK sounds gong to inspire international entrepreneurship

The International Entrepreneurship campaign starts symbolically by the sounding of the gong at the Amsterdam exchange. A great opportunity for every entrepreneur who has international ambitions or is in the orientating phase of going international. KvK with their strong global network is ready to advise and inform all entrepreneurs who are interested to start or orientate in doing business abroad. Peter Bargon, director SME at KvK, opens the trading day at the Amsterdam exchange.

All entrepreneurs with international ambitions can register online for a nearby event in multiple locations in the Netherlands. Also, all information regarding international business is online available at our KvK website.  For all entrepreneurs that aspire to conquer the world or are ready to take the first steps in the field of export and import, can get in touch with our KvK advisors who have a strong international ties that are ready to help move forward in realizing that dream.

For more information: www.kvk.nl

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Uitmarkt

Sounding of the gong marks start Uitmarkt

The Uitmarkt’s main partner, ABN AMRO, sounds the gong at the Amsterdam exchange along with representatives of the other supporting partners.

The 41st edition of the Uitmarkt will take place from Friday 24 to Sunday 26 August 2010 around the Oosterdok and at the Marineterrein in Amsterdam. During the Uitmarkt, the rich cultural programme for the coming season will be presented, with performances by leading companies and performers, including Guus Meeuwis, Van der Laan & Woe, Tommy Christiaan, Dutch National Opera & Ballet and the popular musical Sing-a-Long.

The Uitmarkt, the opening of the cultural season, receives funding from a wide network of partners, including main partner ABN AMRO, BankGiro Loterij, Port of Amsterdam, City of Amsterdam, Province of Noord-Holland, SENA Performers and 50 jaar Bijlmer.

For more information: www.uitmarkt.nl

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ASN Beleggingsfondsen

ASN Beleggingsfondsen sounds gong for adding microfinance as an additional asset category to the ASN Duurzame Mixfondsen

On behalf of ASN Beleggingsfondsen (Investment Funds), Claudia Vroom opens the trading day in Amsterdam. Claudia Vroom is Director Fund Services at Triple Jump. Triple Jump is responsible for the day-to-day work and is project advisor to the microfinance portfolio for the ASN-Novib Micro Credit Fund.

In 2017, ASN Investment Funds introduced five new ASN Duurzame Mixfondsen (Sustainable Mix Funds). From the beginning of August 2018, ASN Beleggingsfondsen has added microfinancing as an additional asset category to the ASN Duurzame Mixfondsen. For the investor, this means a better balanced mix fund and more sustainable impact. The ASN Beleggingsfondsen offered through, among others, ASN Bank. The funds are listed on the stock exchange and are therefore also available through other banks and financial service providers.

For more information: www.asnbank.nl

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TIE Kinetix

TIE Kinetix launches marketing transformation program

TIE Kinetix, leading provider of Partner Automation solutions, has released an exclusive digital marketing transformation program for channel organizations to help their channel partners adopt digital marketing. The program is developed and delivered in partnership with Google.

The program helps resellers from brands/manufacturers to adopt digital marketing. Today, almost 70% of the buyer’s journey takes place online. Most brands and vendors have shifted substantial parts of their media budgets to online advertising and increased investments in their websites, digital content, social media, and marketing automation. However, more than 80% of channel partners are not yet visible online and haven’t embraced the shift to digital marketing. This shift is important for local presence, local services, and the best margins.

In 2017, TIE Kinetix and Google combined their 15+ years of digital advertising and through-channel marketing automation experience. The start was marked with the development of unique and groundbreaking technology, specifically for channel organizations, named “Google Ads for the Channel”. This technology is an integral part of TIE Kinetix’s FLOW Partner Automation platform.

The number of participants, that are able to join the Digital Marketing Transformation for the Channel program, is limited. The software platform from TIE Kinetix, FLOW Partner Automation platform, is used to facilitate the program from a technical perspective. TIE Kinetix’s FLOW Partner Automation platform is the result of 30 years of experience in making businesses and their partners successful by automating business processes and exchanging information

For more information:
www.tiekinetix.com
https://TIEKinetix.com/en/digital-marketing-transformation-program-channel

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BinckBank Tour

BinckBank celebrates start of BinckBank Tour-race through The Netherlands and Belgium

Steven Clausing, Member of the Board and Chief Operating Officer BinckBank (ticker symbol: BINCK) opens the trading day at the Amsterdam exchange to celebrate the start of the BinckBank Tour, the biggest professional cycling event in Belgium and The Netherlands.

BinckBank is the name-sponsor of the cycling race, since 2016. The bank wants to increase its brand awareness. Also they believe that investors are known to be fans of cycling and following cycling events. Last year Tom Dumoulin won the first edition and this year will again see the world’s best professional cyclists participating.

BinckBank is the biggest independent Dutch online bank for small investors and offers a range of financial products to retail customers in five European countries. BinckBank is since 2005 listed on Euronext Amsterdam

For more information: www.binck.nl/binckbanktour

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Grachtenfestival

Sounding of the gong marks start Grachtenfestival

Violinist Ernst Spyckerelle opens the trading day at the exchange in Amsterdam and marks the start of the Grachtenfestival. From 10 – 19 August the capital city is fizzing with classical music, jazz and world music, performed by a topnotch variety of international and young musicians.

During the 21st edition the Grachtenfestival boasts the theme ‘Closer to the music’, as the festival commemorates the 400th year of his passing. One of his most renowned works is being rewritten as an opera.

This year the Grachtenfestival will present very talented young musicians on wonderful venues. Performing musicians will leave trodden paths and unlock new worlds for the audience. Thrilling sound on ruddy locations, intimate concerts on historical premises. Each performance is outstanding and a pride to the Grachtenfestival. Young musicians from all over the world surprise their audience with their own musical story against a backdrop of the wonderful city of Amsterdam. The entire programme consists of over 250 concerts on more than 90 venues.

For more information: www.grachtenfestival.com

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Da Vinci Derivatives

Da Vinci Derivatives opens the trading day 

Da Vinci Derivatives, located at Beursplein 5, sounds the gong and opens the trading day. They open the trading day to celebrate the addition of another five employees to their growing company. These junior traders will help them to expand their business further and bring more liquidity to the markets.

Da Vinci identifies and trades opportunities in financial derivatives based on in-house developed strategies with a short to medium term horizon focused on volatility. This can mean that multiple products are traded against each other based on correlations but also that long (short) positions in under- or overpriced volatilities are taken across asset classes. By arbitraging and market making these differences Da Vinci helps markets to become more efficient providing benefits to end investors. The instruments traded include, but are not limited to, options and futures on single stock, index and fixed income but also options and futures on volatility indices and dividends. Da Vinci trades solely with its own money creating natural risk awareness and does not have any customers.

For more information: www.davinciderivatives.com

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Zomercompetitie 2018

Sounding of the gong for Zomercompetitie 2018

The Zomercompetitie (Summer Competition) is a football and hockey tournament for companies in the Amsterdam area. The competition is being held for the 12th time this summer. In honor of their first successful year of working together with VODW, Maton Sonnemans partner at VODW, sounds the gong.

The Zomercompetitie started in 2007 and since a couple of years we are the number 1 supplier of corporate football and hockey in The Netherlands. With activities in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht and on 5 different locations, de Zomercompetitie every year continues to grow towards national coverage. In addition to the sport aspect, the Summer Competition provides a networking platform where both participating companies and sponsors can meet young professionals. Ten percent of the profit will go to charity, the Hockey Dreams Foundation.

For more information: www.zomercompetitie.com

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Pluk de Nacht festival

Sounding of the gong for Pluk de Nacht festival 

After a well-attended edition in Utrecht (1-5 August), open-air festival Pluk de Nacht will once again be hosting eleven summer days at the Stenen Hoofd in Amsterdam from Wednesday 15 to 25 August. The team behind Pluk de Nacht opens the trading day.

Pluk de Nacht has been around for fifteen years, this year. During this anniversary edition, people can enjoy a program full of art, snacks and drinks from 15:00 onwards every day. In the evening they show (inter)national feature films, documentaries and animations on the big screen that were not seen in Dutch cinemas.

During the day there is a city beach and on Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoons there is a special programming. For example, Pluk is paying tribute to the cassette tape with 'A Mix Tape Afternoon', young VJs and DJs surprise you during 'All Ears and Eyes', and the festival invites four-legged friends and their friends to 'A Dog Day Afternoon'. The Sunday afternoon is also dominated by the young festival-goer with film and activities for children from 2 to 12 years: Pluk Mini. Pluk de Nacht is freely accessible. However, if you want to be assured of a good spot, you can reserve a beach chair on the website for a small donation.

For more information: www.plukdenacht.nl

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KLM Social team

KLM Social team sounds gong for launch Dutch version Google Assistant

KLM (ticker symbol: AF) is one of the first Dutch companies who recently launched its latest service on the Google Assistant. Customers can now easily find KLM flights by using their voice only. In order to pay extra attention to this service, they visit the Amsterdam exchange to open the trading day.

Now, you can easily find KLM flights on the Google Assistant just by using your voice. The service is available in English and Dutch. KLM is one of the first companies in the world to offer a service on this voice-activated platform in more than one language. KLM’s smart assistant BB, short for Blue Bot, helps you find a suitable KLM-flight. Once your desired flight has been found, BB will send you a link which takes you straight to KLM.com where you can book the flight directly.

Since 2009, KLM has gained a reputation as pioneer in the field of social media services and campaigns. KLM has over 25M fans and followers on various social media platforms. Through these channels, KLM receives over 180,000 mentions every week, 35,000 of which are questions or remarks. These are personally answered by more than 300 service agents, who form the world’s largest and dedicated social media team.

For more information: www.klm.com

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Zwitserleven Beleggen by ACTIAM sounds the gong

Zwitserleven Beleggen, a trade name of ACTIAM, opens the trading day at the Amsterdam exchange of Euronext. With the traditional sounding of the gong by Chris Zegers, the company wants to underline the successful introduction of Zwitserleven Beleggen.

Zwitserleven Beleggen seized the moment to celebrate attracting over 500 new clients since its launch in July. Zwitserleven Beleggen offers private investors an easy option to invest online in sustainable funds, boasting an excellent performance track record and low costs.

ACTIAM, part of VIVAT, is a responsible asset manager for more than one million Dutch people, with managed assets of 54.1 billion Euros (December 2017). ACTIAM offers a complete range of investment funds and solutions. From index investing to investing with impact. ACTIAM places strict requirements on its investments and uses a strict and careful selection, without making concessions to the financial return.

For more information: www.zwitserleven.nl/beleggen

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Net4kids

Net4kids celebrates its 15th anniversary by sounding the gong at Beursplein 5 

Anke van den Boog, managing director and co-founder of Net4kids, sounds the gong at Beursplein 5 and with the opening of this trading day celebrates the fact that for fifteen years Net4kids endeavors to give the underprivileged children of this world the chances they deserve.

“By no means an easy task, but we are tremendously proud that we have been able to give so many children the chance to develop themselves in a safe and caring environment.” Van den Boog founded Net4kids fifteen years ago together with her husband Loek van den Boog, because they wanted to be directly involved with the help for these children and obtain full transparency on the deployment and results of her investment. They also discovered that the impact they could achieve would be much larger by focusing on the corporate world.

Net4kids is the child aid organisation of choice for companies that want to make  difference. From the belief that children all over the world are the next generation and determine our future, it offers the chances these children need to develop themselves. It does this through connecting companies in the Netherlands to concrete initiatives in Africa and Asia that match their business. Net4kids combines a business approach with true emotional involvement leading to a transparent and concrete implementation of the CSR strategy of companies where this is an important part of their vision.
 

For more information: www.net4kids.org

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DNB Visitor Centre

DNB Visitor Centre celebrates cooperation with AEX Experience

Ton Lansdaal, coordinator of the DNB Visitor Centre, will sound the gong to open trading. The occasion will mark four years of successful cooperation between the DNB Visitor Centre and the AEX Experience.

This success is based on both centres offering visitors experiences that complement each other very well. Groups often take the opportunity to combine a visit to both sites. The Money Walks app, which launches shortly, will take users on a guided tour of Amsterdam's financial highlights, and will connect both locations. 

De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) seeks to safeguard financial stability and thus contributes to sustainable prosperity in both the European part and the Caribbean part of the Netherlands. To this end, it operates as an independent central bank, supervisor and resolution authority with European partners. The DNB Visitor Centre offers everybody aged 16 and over an interactive display about DNB's tasks and activities and their impact on people's daily lives.

For more information: www.dnb.nl

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Amsterdam Institute of Finance

Amsterdam Institute of Finance opens trading

Amsterdam Institute of Finance (AIF) visits Beursplein 5 with the participants of the Master of Science in Risk Management for Executives program. A Master’s program aimed at professionals in Risk Management. This program is spread over several modules and is held in New York, Amsterdam and Abu Dhabi over the course of one year. The program is offered in collaboration with NYU Stern School of Business.

AIF is a foundation specialized in providing high-level financial training for finance and other professionals. Located in Amsterdam, AIF was established in 1990 as an initiative of the Dutch financial community. Since then, AIF has built a strong presence worldwide for its open enrollment programs as well as its custom made in-company training.

For more information: www.aif.nl

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KAS BANK

Innovative Blockchain propositions of KAS BANK

The Amsterdam exchange is opened by the KAS Lab. KAS Lab is a meeting place and testing ground where innovative ideas are thought out. Internal and external innovators work together to turn an innovative idea into an innovative solution.

With two innovative propositions, KAS BANK (ticker symbol: KA) demonstrates that blockchain technology enables to make complex processes in the financial industry more efficient. The bank is convinced that this will increase confidence and make the financial sector more effective, faster and transparent. KAS Lab, KAS BANK's innovation hub, has successfully tested a blockchain product for voting (Voteroom) at annual shareholder meetings (AGM’s). In addition, KAS Lab is preparing the market launch of the second blockchain initiative, Tokenised Asset Offering for unlisted funds (TOKAS).

For more information: www.kaslab.nl

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Pride Amsterdam 2018

Sounding of the gong for Pride Amsterdam 2018

The Amsterdam Gay Pride Foundation, together with their ambassadors and a delegation from Deloitte, opens the trading day and marks the start of Pride Amsterdam 2018. This year’s theme is: 'Heroes'.

Pride Amsterdam is a nine-day 'festival with content'. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people stand along the canals to enjoy the traditional boat parade. However, the organization of the Pride this year is 'bleak' when looking at all kinds of developments in the world. "Our festival is a platform where everything comes together", says director Lucien Spee of the Amsterdam Gay Pride foundation.

This year, the organization of Pride Amsterdam wants to pay special attention to human rights in the world with the traditional boat parade. The 'Meer dan gewenst' foundation received the first 'Support Card 2018' from Rabobank. Sport also plays a central role this year. It has been exactly 20 years since the Gay Games in Amsterdam took place under the motto "Friendship through Culture and Sports". For Deloitte important: We are all heroes and winning by being our true authentic self. Deloitters in cooperation with Deloitte FIT ambassadors give a look back at 20 years of Gay Olympics and the sporting heroes of today with their boat during the boat parade.

For more information: www.pride.amsterdam

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