Princess Maxima Center

Princess Maxima Center visits Beursplein 5

The first pole of the Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology in Utrecht was beaten. To celebrate this they sounds the gong at Beursplein 5.

More than 400 attendees saw how a group of children together with Minister Schippers put the first pole at the right place at the site. Striking this first pole is a very important moment for promoters, the parents of children with cancer united in the Association of Parents, Children and Cancer (in Dutch: VOKK) and pediatric oncologists united in the Foundation Children's Oncology Netherlands (in Dutch: SKION). They see, after years of preparation, their wish fulfilled: concentration of pediatric oncology in the Netherlands.

The new building will be ready at the end of 2017, after which the Princess Maxima Center opens its doors for all children with cancer in the Netherlands beginning 2018. A first section was started in 2014 within the walls of the Wilhelmina Children's Hospital (in Dutch: WKz). In this hospital children with solid tumors from all over the Netherlands are already being treated and children with all forms of cancer from the region of Utrecht. Also the research department has already started in Utrecht.

For more information: www.prinsesmaximacentrum.nl

Bert Douwes Award winnaar

Bert Douwes Award winnaar bezoekt Beursplein 5

Justin Blekemolen, winnaar van de Bert Douwes Award 2015, luidt de gong en sluit daarmee de handelsdag op Beursplein 5. Justin won deze scriptieprijs van de Hogeschool van Amsterdam met een paper over het verschil tussen beleggingsadviezen op basis van technische dan wel fundamentele analyse.

De Hogeschool van Amsterdam biedt studenten uit het hele land via de Minor Beleggen de mogelijkheid zich gedurende een halfjaar te verdiepen in alle aspecten die met de financiële markten en beleggen samenhangen. Ter afsluiting schrijft elke deelnemende student een scriptie over een actueel financieel onderwerp. De beste scriptie wordt beloond met de Award. De prijs is vernoemd naar de in 2007 overleden Bert Douwes, docent aan de Hogeschool van Amsterdam en grondlegger van de Minor.

De Bert Douwes Award wordt mede mogelijk gemaakt door Euronext Amsterdam en Stichting Capital Amsterdam.

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KPN and Fairphone open trading

The Euronext Amsterdam listed KPN (ticker symbol: KPN) opens trading with Fairphone. Tessa Wernink, Co-founder and CCO Fairphone, sounds the gong.

KPN started the presale of the new Fairphone and is the first provider in the Netherlands that provides this durable device to consumers. The Fairphone is a fair and sustainable smartphone. That is, in the entire process and realization, social and environmental conditions have been taken into account.

Sustainability is an important part of the strategy of KPN. Therefore, KPN supports the initiators of the development of the Fairphone since 2011. The first Fairphone saw the light in 2013and KPN started selling it in early 2014.

For more information: www.kpn.com

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Hockey champions Pinoké

Hockey champions Pinoké sounds gong with sponsor ABN AMRO

Trading is opened by Boys C1 of hockey club Pinoké with sponsor ABN AMRO. Last weekend they became Dutch champion of indoor hockey and to celebrate this they sound the gong at the Amsterdam exchange.

The Euronext Amsterdam listed ABN AMRO (ticker symbol: ABN) is sponsoring the entire Pinoké youth teams, as well as the team led by trainer/coach Xander Berlijn and manager Erik-Jan Möhringer.

The Amsterdam Pinoké hockey club, founded in 1929, with about 2,300 members is one of the largest hockey association in the country.  It is the ambition of the club to keep a stable performance in the national league with as many self-educated youth. The outstanding hockey training and professional set voluntary organization ensure that ambition, conviviality and respect go hand in hand.

For more information: www.pinoke.nl

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SaxoSelect

Saxo Bank launches SaxoSelect in partnership with BlackRock

Saxo Bank launches the first large-scale, truly digital, investment solution for retail investors in partnership with BlackRock. Kirst Kuipers, Head of iShares Netherlands, sounds the gong.

The new SaxoSelect is a fully digital and automated portfolio management service that enables clients of Saxo Bank to invest in pre-selected strategies in a real-time, fully transparent environment directly on their Saxo platform. It is the first large-scale digital investment solution for retail investors built with iShares® ETFs by BlackRock.

The Saxo Bank Group is an online multi-asset trading and investment specialist, offering a complete set of trading and investment technologies, tools and strategies.

BlackRock is a global leader in investment management, risk management and advisory services for institutional and retail clients.

iShares is a global leader in exchange-traded funds (ETFs), with more than a decade of expertise and commitment to individual and institutional investors of all sizes.

For more information:www.saxobank.com

Market Wizards and BMD² Capital

Market Wizards and BMD² Capital celebrate new partnership

Trading firm BMD² Capital BV has decided to form a strategic alliance with Market Wizards. By means of this new joint venture, Market Wizards strengthens its position as a partner for professional traders. The alliance will bring BMD² a significant quality boost in facility management and better growth opportunities for the future.

Established in 1999, Market Wizards is a Dutch proprietary trading firm engaging in day trading, market making, high-frequency trading and electronic execution. The firm operates two sophisticated dealing rooms in the Netherlands, Amsterdam and Den Bosch.

BMD² Capital is an independent trading company specializing in proprietary trading and risk in equities and derivatives. Main activities of the company consist of professional trading and arbitrage in equities and derivatives.

For more information: www.marketwizards.com

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Drumming Day 2016

This year’s Drumming Day is opened by Jaap van Manen. Accompanied by a number of young drummers he will sound the gong. After the opening ceremony he will address the participants at this year’s Drumming Day Seminar, which is dedicated to Corporate Governance.

Drumming Day is a centuries old tradition commemorating the bravery of an orphaned boy who saved Amsterdam's stock exchange from the Spanish during the Eighty Years' War. The city expressed its gratitude by allowing orphans to bang their drums in the exchange building one day every year. This centuries old tradition continues to this day.

With the subsequent seminar key note speakers ‘’drum up’’ interest to topics that are, or may become, relevant to the Dutch (economic) society. This year the seminar is dedicated to the revision of the Corporate Governance Code. The Monitoring Committee, led by Jaap van Manen, will set out the consultation paper with proposals for revision of the Code. Furthermore Ben Noteboom, member of the Supervisory Board of Ahold, Wolters Kluwer and Aegon and Jennifer Law, Vice President, Corporate Governance and Responsible Investment at BlackRock will give their views on these proposals. Subsequently, there is room for debate with the invitees.

For more information: www.aex.nl

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75th anniversary Het Parool

Het Parool celebrates 75th anniversary by sounding gong

On February 10, 2016, Het Parool celebrates its 75th anniversary by launching a fully restyled newspaper, a new website, a new app and a new logo. Ronald Ockhuysen, Editor in Chief, sounds the gong.

Het Parool is an Amsterdam-based newspaper that was first published as a resistance paper on 10 February 1941.

For more information: www.parool.nl

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ING Start-up of the Year

ING Start-up of the Year 2015 Bannerwise visits Beursplein 5

The  public has elected Bannerwise ING Start-up of the Year 2015. To celebrate this they open trading at the Amsterdam exchange.

Bannerwise provides an online tool with which entrepreneurs and marketing professionals can make their own banners. The software automatically adjusts the banners for different formats, mobile devices, and advertising platforms, allowing advertisers to increase reach and sales with less investments.

ING has organized this election for the third time. The winners of the previous editions were Huren.nl in 2013 and Athom in 2014.

For more information: www.bannerwise.nl

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Chinese New Year

Sounding of the gong to celebrate Chinese New Year

February 8 2016 marks the beginning of the Chinese New Year - The year of the Monkey. The chairman of the Chinese Business Association Amsterdam, Tony Fung, sounds the gong for this occasion.

It is a good, and long standing tradition that the Chinese Entrepreneurs Society of Amsterdam organises the celebrations in China Town Amsterdam. This year a colourful Lion-dance and spectacular fireworks will be part of the celebrations. The lion will accompany the opening of trading accompanied by a drum and percussion to bless the new year.

For more information:www.chineseondernemers.nl

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NU.nl Startup Award: Land Life Company

NU.nl Startup Award winner Land Life Company opens trading

During the Big Improvement Day the winner of the NU.nl Startup Award 2016 has been appointed. This year’s winner, Land Life Company, opens trading. Rebekah Braswell, Director Land Life Company, sounds the gong together with her colleagues and NU.nl employees.

The Amsterdam-based startup Land Life Company develops technology to contribute to the restoration of the 2 billion hectares of degraded land on the planet. Their Cocoon planting technology is a proven biodegradable, low-cost and water-efficient solution for planting trees in arid soils and revitalizing ecosystems and communities worldwide. 

Big Improvement Day (BID)  was established in 2008 from the need to expose and bring further positive developments in the Netherlands. Since then, the top of the Dutch government and business come together each year on the third Tuesday in January at the most positive day.

Every year NU.nl and BID search for standouts in their industry. This year, the NU.nl Startup Award will be presented to a new company (max. 3 years old) with an impact that is relevant and has the potential to break through internationally.

For more information: www.landlifecompany.com

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Lucas Bols listing anniversary

Lucas Bols celebrates one year listing anniversary by sounding gong

Lucas Bols (BOLS) celebrates its first year of listing at Euronext Amsterdam by sounding the gong. Huub van Doorne, CEO Lucas Bols, marks this occasion by sounding the gong to open trading.

Huub van Doorne: "Our mission is to create great cocktail experiences worldwide. The passion with which Lucas Bols cocktail operates on the international market is also seen and appreciated by the financial markets. The listing offers us an additional platform to position ourselves even better. The share of Lucas Bols, with a broad shareholder base of both private and institutional investors, can look back on a successful first year. "

Lucas Bols is the world's oldest distilled brand and one of the oldest active Dutch companies. Over the past 440 years, Lucas Bols became the expert in the art of distilling, mixing and blending liquors, jenever, gin and vodka. The Lucas Bols portfolio consists of over 20 premium and super premium brands that are used as a base for cocktails at cocktail bars all over the world. Lucas Bols's products are sold in more than 110 countries worldwide.

For more information: www.lucasbols.com

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20th Anniversary VBDO

Sounding of gong marks 20th anniversary VBDO

Piet Sprengers, founder VBDO, sounds the gong on the occasion of the 20^th anniversary of VBDO. He opens trading together with Euronext Amsterdam listed companies.

The Dutch Association of Investors for Sustainable Development (VBDO) has worked on creating a sustainable capital market that considers not only financial criteria, but also non-financial, social and environmental criteria for the last two decades. VBDO’s vision is to increase sustainability awareness among companies and investors.

Representatives of Dutch listed companies Unilever, Heineken and PostNL, as well as the Board and Advisory board of VBDO, are in attendance of the ceremony of sounding the opening gong.

For more information: www.vbdo.nl

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Get in the Ring

Get in the Ring winners visit Beursplein 5

The winners of Get in the Ring visit Beursplein 5 and open trading. Jurgen Nieuwenhuijsen, Get in the Ring Global Team, Management Team at Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship, sounds the gong.

In November 2015 the Dutch finals of startup competition Get in the Ring took place. The startups Blue Battery, laevo and Nettcity were appointed Dutch winners in the Netherlands by the jurors. On February 11 the winning startups from the Netherlands, England, France, Monaco, Norway and Germany come together in London for the Regional Finals of Get in the Ring Western Europe.

Get in the Ring is an event that has grown in just three years from a local event into a global competition that is taking place in more than 80 countries with 2,000 participating startups. The goal is to provide a platform for startups to get in touch with people around the world who can help them with further knowledge, networking, funding and time.

For more information: www.getinthering.co

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Amsterdam City Index

Amsterdam City Index opens trading

Trading at the Amsterdam exchange is opened by the Amsterdam City Index. This index has existed since 2005 and is regarded as the barometer of the business in downtown Amsterdam.

Amsterdam City is the initiator and producer of the Amsterdam City Index and Economic Lesson that took place on the 28th of January. Amsterdam City is a committed association of a large number of business associations, large and small companies, institutions and cultural organizations in Amsterdam. Their primary goal is an economically healthy city, our focus is on improving the economic climate in the centre of Amsterdam.

The Amsterdam City Index started in 2005 with 100. The new City Index calculates with 2011 as the start year, or: 2011 = 100. And compared to 2011, the City Index has grown 11 points to the new Index Number 111.

For more information:www.amsterdamcityindex.nl

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Dutch Payment & Exchange Company (NBWM)

NBWM sounds gong for currency options

Trading is opened by the Dutch Payment & Exchange Company (NBWM). Laurens Maartens, Head of Trading, sounds the gong.

The Dutch Payment & Exchange company has launched currency options. With this they can cover against unwanted currency movements and use it as an investment instrument. The head office of NBWM is situated at Beursplein 5.

For more information: www.nbwm.nl

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‘The New Flexible Retirement’ report

Sounding of the gong for launch retirement report Aegon

Alex Wynaendts, CEO of Aegon, sounds the gong and opens trading at the Amsterdam exchange to launch the report ‘The New Flexible Retirement’ by the Aegon Center for Longevity and Retirement.

The report explores worker’s retirement-related expectations and provides insights into the extent to which employers and governments are facilitating their transition to retirement. This report calls for a new approach that makes future retirement more affordable, sustainable and achievable for all people and provides several recommendations to governments, employers and employees.

The Aegon Center for Longevity and Retirement (ACLR), founded in 2015, is a collaboration of experts assembled by Aegon with representation from Europe, the Americas, and Asia. ACLR’s mission is to conduct research, educate the public, and inform a global dialogue on trends issues, and opportunities surrounding longevity, population aging, and retirement security.

For more information: www.aegon.com

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UBS Asset Management

UBS celebrates ETFs listing at Euronext Amsterdam

UBS Asset Management has announced the listing of ETF’s at Euronext Amsterdam. The occasion is marked by Marcel Danen, Head of UBS ETFs Netherlands, who opens the trading day by sounding the gong.

Index-tracking investment solutions have been a core competence of UBS Asset Management for over 35 years. As a fund house in Europe, UBS launched its first ETF in Europe in 2001 and is currently both one of Europe´s foremost providers as well as a dominant force in currency hedged ETFs in the region. The range comprises more than 200 ETFs and offers investors a transparent and flexible opportunity to diversify their investments across key markets and all asset classes, including equities, bonds, real estate, commodities and alternative investments.

For more information: www.ubs.com/etf

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