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Entrepreneurship Summer School

Sounding of the gong for Entrepreneurship Summer School

The gong is sounded for the yearly Entrepreneurship Summer School, organized by Rabobank Amsterdam and the Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE). Prof. dr. Enno Masurel, Scientific Director at Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship and initiator of the Entrepreneurship Summer School, opens trading together with (future) student-entrepreneurs, the team of ACE and Rabobank Amsterdam.

The Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship encourages entrepreneurship by providing a broad education and research program and contributes to the development of entrepreneurship skills and knowledge.

The Entrepreneurship Summer School provides 35 students the opportunity to develop their business idea into a solid business plan in one week. By following workshops and attending the entrepreneurship helpdesk. During the finals, five finalists pitch their idea to a professional jury. The student entrepreneurs can win entrepreneurship consultation from Rabobank Amsterdam and the Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship when starting their business. During the forthcoming final on July 10th, the results of a research that has been conducted under the 256 participants in the Summer school Entrepreneurship over the past 9 years will be announced.

For more information: www.ace-amsterdam.org

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IPO Enertime

Listing of Enertime on Alternext

Gilles David, CEO Enertime, opens the trading day in Paris.

Enertime specializes in the design, manufacturing and implementation of electricity production solutions using the Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) technology. The company designs thermodynamic machines to retrieve and transform process heat, solar, geothermal and biomass energies.

DSI registry investment planners

DSI sounds gong for new registry for investment planners

Chairman Dick Garritsen of the FVP foundation, the federation for investment planners, will sound the gong to start the trading day on the Amsterdam exchange together with the DSI foundation, celebrating the start of the new DSI-certification registry for investment planners.

By starting this registry and cooperating, DSI and the FVP wish to integrate investment and financial planning. The symbiosis of investment planning starting from an all-encompassing financial plan will be given its first registry. This is a new breed of top financial advisers, operating in the interest of the investing client and working with a more integrated vision.

The members of the FVP association will register with DSI. The well-known DSI system offers pre-employment screening, permanent education, integrity testing and disciplinary rules, to which FVP wishes to subscribe. The FVP association counts 60 members. The DSI foundation counts 6100 registrations spread over 14 registers in the financial sector.

For more information: www.dsi.nl

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Deloitte Technology Fast50

Sounding of the gong for Deloitte Technology Fast50

Every year Deloitte searches for the 50 fastest growing tech companies in the Netherlands to include them in the Technology Fast50 list. A mix of successful Fast50 alumni and relatively young successful growers will open the trading day at Euronext by sounding the gong.

This year, Deloitte organizes the Technology Fast50 for the seventeenth time, in collaboration with program partners ABN AMRO, Euronext, Kennedy Van der Laan and Vitruvian. The competition was initiated to recognize the exceptional performance of these companies. The Fast50 companies have the best entrepreneurs of the future, who think fast and play a leading role in their field. The Rising Star is a special price that is destined for emerging innovative companies that are less than five years old. The ranking of the Deloitte Technology Fast50 2016 and the Rising Star 2016 will be announced in October.

For more information: www.fast50.nl

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2016 European Athletics Championships

NN Group sounds gong for 2016 European Athletics Championships

NN Group (ticker symbol: NN), the insurance corporation that celebrates its second anniversary as a listed company on the Amsterdam exchange this month, is proud sponsor of the European Athletics Championships 2016. The ECH are this year’s biggest sporting events in the Netherlands.

NN Group is an international insurance and asset management company, active in more than 18 countries, with a strong presence in a number of European countries and Japan. With around 11,500 employees the group offers retirement services, insurance, investments and banking to more than 15 million customers. NN Group includes Nationale-Nederlanden, NN and NN Investment Partners. NN Group is listed on Euronext Amsterdam.

The European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam (6-10 July) form the most important sports event in the Netherlands in 2016. Recreational and professional sports go hand-in-hand at beautiful venues like the Olympic Stadium and the Museum Square. During the ECH, many activities are organized to stimulate sports, athletic behavior in the Dutch society and a healthy lifestyle.

For more information: www.amsterdam2016.org

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Citi launches Leverage & Short

Citi celebrates the launch its first Leverage & Short on Euronext Paris

For its 25th anniversary, the Exchange Listed Products team of Citi launches its Leverage & Shorts. With 2.4€ bilion traded in 2015, Leverage & Shorts are the most traded type of product on Euronext Paris.

Appeared in 2010 in Germany, Leverage & Shorts experienced a strong success since its launch in France. It nearly reached €2.4 billion of traded premium in the course of 2015, which makes it the most traded exchange listed derivative product on Euronext Paris. For its 25th anniversary, the Exchange Listed Products team of Citi launches its range of Leverage & Shorts. Citi's Leverage & Shorts amplify the variations of the CAC 40 or DAX indices by a daily constant leverage, on the upside and on the downside, through  the replication of Leveraged indices, which are independantly calculated by an external agent, such as Euronext for the CAC 40 Leverage & Short indices.

North Sea Jazz Festival

North Sea Jazz Festival sounds gong with sponsor BNP Paribas

Festival Director Jan Willem Luyken opens trading at the Amsterdam exchange together with sponsor BNP Paribas The Netherlands leading up to the North Sea Jazz Festival. This year the festival starts Friday 8 July.

North Sea Jazz is the largest indoor music spectacle in the world and is known nationally and internationally as the event which in three days leads you through the past, present and future of jazz. Besides this steady basis of jazz many other genres are played like blues, soul, funk, hiphop , world, pop and more. The biggest names will be performing at the festival, while at the same time many visitors will discover new favourites. Last year marked the festival’s fortieth edition, and simultaneously the tenth in Rotterdam.

For more information: www.northseajazz.com

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Robeco SummerNights

Gong ceremony to mark the start of the Robeco SummerNights concert series

The collaboration between Robeco (ticker symbol ROBP) and The Royal Concertgebouw on Robeco SummerNights – the longest-running and most successful partnership in the cultural sector – is about to start again.

As this 28th year also marks the start of a further three-year extension, Edwin Rietkerk, Head of Global Marketing and Retail at Robeco and Simon Reinink, Director of The Concertgebouw, sound the gong at Euronext Amsterdam, to open trading. They will be preceded by jazz singer Fay Claassen singing ‘I’ve Got the World on a String’, as a preview to her forthcoming concert on 12 August.

During Robeco SummerNights, which this year will be held between 1 July and 31 August, audiences can enjoy over 80 concerts in The Concertgebouw in the classical, pop, jazz and world music genres. The music will vary from Kyteman’s jam session during the opening concert to master pianist, Denis Kozhukhin, playing Mozart’s Fifteenth Piano Concerto. The season will also include special theme nights, such as on 12 August when the Main Hall will be transformed into a Jazz Club in honour of the First Lady of Jazz, Rita Reys, and the Tribute to the Beach Boys by various Dutch artists such as Yorick van Norden and The Kik.

For more information: www.robecosummernights.nl

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Partnership JCDecaux & Het Rijksmuseum

JCDecaux The Netherlands and Het Rijksmuseum sound gong for partnership

JCDecaux The Netherlands (ticker symbol: DEC) and Het Rijksmuseum have formed a partnership. René Witzel, CEO JCDecaux The Netherlands, sound the gong on this occasion and opens trading at the Amsterdam exchange.

This partnership is intended to give more visibility to Het Rijksmuseum. René Witzel: ''JCDecaux bears art a warm heart and promotes various cultural projects around the world, because art is close to one of the pillars of the company: high-quality design. We are very proud of our partnership with the ultimate icon in the field of Dutch art.''

JCDecaux is leader in Outdoor advertising and street furniture in the Netherlands and worldwide. In Amsterdam JCDecaux been responsible for the deployment, management and operation of bus shelters carrying advertising since 1987. In Amsterdam alone, the company has about 1,500 bus shelters and another few hundred freestanding billboards. With this partnership Het Rijksmuseum will benefit from the high range of the street furniture and this may bring them even more to the attention of residents and millions of visitors of Amsterdam.

For more information: www.jcdecaux.nl

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30th anniversary Optiver

Optiver sounds gong to celebrate 30th anniversary

Optiver opens trading at the Amsterdam exchange by sounding the gong to celebrate their 30th anniversary. A global electronic market maker, Optiver uses their own capital, at their own risk, to trade on major financial markets around the world.

Their story begins in 1986, with a single trader on the floor of Amsterdam’s options exchange. Today, they are at the forefront of trading and technology, employing more than 950 Optiverians of 40 nationalities across offices on four continents. Their wide range of products includes listed derivatives, cash equities, exchange-traded funds, bonds and foreign exchange.

For more information: www.optiver.com

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De Brauw

De Brauw sounds gong as leading firm of the Netherlands

The International Financial Law Review has chosen De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek as the Leading Firm of the Netherlands. Joost Schutte opens trading at the Amsterdam exchange by sounding the gong.

De Brauw has been honored with this award for advising ABN AMRO on its IPO. It is a great accomplishment for De Brauw's capital markets team, headed by Jan Willem Hoevers and Joost Schutte.

De Brauw, founded in 1871, is a law firm with a global reach, with a robust corporate practice, a centre of excellence in litigation, and an unparalleled team of regulatory experts. In addition to its headquarters in Amsterdam, the firm has offices in Brussels, Frankfurt, London, New York, Shanghai and Singapore, and is part of the Best Friends network – a network of premier European law firms.

For more information: www.debrauw.com

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Shenzhen Stock Exchange

Euronext and Shenzhen Stock Exchange Celebrate Index Cooperation Agreement

Mr. WU, Lijun, Chairman of Shenzhen Stock Exchange, rings the opening bell for the Paris markets, alongside Stéphane Boujnah, CEO of Euronext, and colleagues including: Mr. JIN, Liyang, Vice President of Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Mr. FU, Binghui, Director of ChiNext Market of Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Mr. LIU, Fuzhong, Vice Director of Strategy and International Relations and Mr. WANG, Shenghui, Vice Director of Board Office of Shenzhen Stock Exchange.

Today Euronext and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) signed an Index Cooperation Agreement in Paristo promote each other’s indices in mainland China and the Euronext markets. They celebrated this partnership today with a bell ceremony to open the day’s trading on Euronext.

This agreement will ensure that Chinese investors are able to access indices offered by Euronext and allow European investors to benefit from Shenzhen index products, including the SZSE COMPONENT INDEX,SZSE SME PRICE INDEX,SZSE CHINEXT PRICE INDEX, SZSE 100 PRICE INDEX and SZSE SMALL/MID CAP INNOVATION INDEX.

At the heart of continental Europe, Euronext is a top market place for listed technology companies, offering a variety of biotech, medtech and technology indices which, through this new agreement, will be further promoted in China. These include the EnterNext® Tech 40,  Euronext® Health Care Equipment & Services EW and Next Biotech. Shenzhen shares Euronext’s strength in the technology segment, with a strong issuer base comprising tech, biotech and healthcare listings, as well as solid investor interest in these companies. The partnership will also include the promotion of Euronext’s major indices such as the  CAC 40®  and the innovative Low Carbon 100 Europe®.

The exchanges will help to attract their local investors to each other’s markets by facilitating listings of Exchange Traded Products (ETPs).

For more information on Shenzhen indices promoted by Euronext:
Please visit: https://www.euronext.com/en/data

CIOCITY conference

Gong marks start CIOCITY conference

During the CIOCITY conference in Amsterdam, executive teams of Digital Leader associations from China, Europe, India, Russia, South America and the United States will sign a collaboration agreement – The Global Digital Leader Alliance –  to share peer-to-peer knowledge and best-practices on the Global Digital Transition.

CIOCITY conference of CIONET is an associated event of the Dutch presidency of the European Commission. Unique for the Netherlands is the gathering of over 300 European Chief Information Officers and Digital Leaders to share knowledge. CIOCITY will also host the European CIO of the Year Awards to leading European CIOs.

CIONET was founded in Belgium in 2005. CIONET is a knowledge network for CIOs and Digital Leaders. Today CIONET has over 6200 members in 24 countries including 630 in the Netherlands. Members work cross industry like telecom, finance, logistics, health, government and industry as IT executive with multinationals, governments and the large SME organizations.

For more information: www.cionet.com

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World Championships Rowing

Aegon and Royal Dutch Rowing Association open Amsterdam exchange

Aegon (ticker symbol: AGN) and rowing juniors sound the gong at the Amsterdam exchange and open trading. The young men of the Dutch Junior Eight Rowing Team and their coach, Ronald Florijn, will open the Amsterdam Exchange.

From 20 to 28 August 2016 the World Championships Rowing, the World Junior Championships and the World Championships under 23 years will be held simultaneously on the Willem-Alexander course in Rotterdam, 5 meters below sea-level. With 1830 athletes in 620 boats from 36 countries, and 1000 volunteers, this will be one of the largest sports events in the Netherlands this summer.

Aegon has been the proud sponsor of the Royal Dutch Rowing Association (KNRB) since 2010. Marco Keim, CEO Aegon Netherlands: “Over the past few years, both recreational and professional rowing have been booming as a sports in the Netherlands. Student rowing associations are flooded with applicants. The World Championships are a perfect moment for our talented rowers to show the world what they are capable of. Aegon stands behind the athletes and next to their parents to cheer them on.”

For more information: www.rotterdam2016.com

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NL Next Level

LTO Nederland sounds gong for NL Next Level

The NL Next Level campaign offers a new perspective for the Netherlands. With a broad investment agenda which can ensure that the Netherlands remains ranked at the top of the world. Albert Jan Maat, Chairman of LTO Nederland, sounds the gong and opens trading at the Amsterdam exchange.

NL Next Level is a new ambitious perspective for all Dutch people. A unique program that leads to new entrepreneurs, to new investment, sustainable growth and jobs for all Dutch people. A programme of VNO-NCW, MKB – Nederland and LTO-Netherlands together with branches/sectors. The essence is to focus on investing in the Netherlands's transition to a next level of prosperity, sustainability and opportunities for all.

In the Netherlands LTO is the national organization that represents the interests of farmers and cultivators in politics and in society, on the level of municipalities, provinces, in The Hague with the national government and in Brussels with the EU. LTO Nederland is an umbrella organization of regional and sectorial organizations. Those organizations boast a total network of around 50 thousand agriculture entrepreneurs. In interest representation and lobbying it is not just about specific agricultural topics like pesticides and fertilization, but also about wider, intersectional themes. In the lobby, LTO Nederland tries to connect as much as possible to organizations and institutes that have the same focus on the horizon when it comes to the position and future of their sector.

For more information: www.nl-nextlevel.nl

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AkzoNobel launches Visualizer App

AkzoNobel sounds gong for launch new Visualizer App

AkzoNobel (ticker symbol: AKZO) visits the Amsterdam exchange to open trading. The ceremony coincides with the launch of the latest version of AkzoNobel’s innovative Visualizer decorating app.

The free digital tool allows users to see, share and virtually paint in their chosen colors – before anything is actually applied. Packed with new features, the Visualizer now includes enhanced video capability and intuitive colour picker technology, as well as the ability to share designs on social media. Now available for iOS and Android, the new version of the Visualizer will be rolled out in more than 40 markets this year.

Research shows that 30 percent of consumers struggle to visualize what a colour will look like in their homes, and 39 percent discuss colour schemes with friends and family before making a purchase. “Colour is the number one decision factor when consumers choose paint,” explained AkzoNobel. “Selecting the right colour can be an exciting yet overwhelming challenge. The new features in the Visualizer offer a fun and easy way for people to find the essential colour that makes their living spaces more inspiring.”

AkzoNobel creates everyday essentials to make people’s lives more liveable and inspiring. As a leading global paints and coatings company and a major producer of specialty chemicals, they supply essential ingredients, essential protection and essential colour to industries and consumers worldwide. Headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, they have approximately 45,000 people in around 80 countries, while their portfolio includes well-known brands such as Sikkens, Flexa and Jozo.

For more information: www.akzonobel.com

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20th Anniversary PSI 20 Futures

20 Year Anniversary Futures Contracts on the PSI 20 Index

We celebrate today the 20 year anniversary of the futures contracts on the PSI 20 index. To celebrate this anniversary, the team of BBVA Portugal (Luis Castro and Almeida (managing director), Manuel Ferreira and Daniel Mendes) rang the closing bell.

The first futures contract on the PSI 20 index was launched 20 years ago, on 20 June 1996. By the end of the first month of existence, the volume reached more than 3,000 contracts, a number that contrasts with June 2016 with over than 84,000. In terms of total volume, over these 20 years,  around 6.3 million futures contracts on the PSI 20 index were negotiated.

Since the migration of the Portuguese derivatives market to the Euronext platform, the number of members has more than doubled to 47. For the number of contracts traded in 2016 (until 17 June = 215,000), the Portuguese financial intermediaries account for 36% of the volume, followed by the Spanish with 35%, while the British members account for 24% of that amount.

In addition to futures contracts on the PSI 20 index, the benchmark of the market, there are currently 12 Single Stock Futures and 3 Single Stock Dividend Futures.
Four financial intermediaries act as Liquidity Provider on the PSI 20 Index Future: BBVA (Portugal), Banco Santander, SA (Spain), DRW Investments (UK) and Société Générale (France).

Entrima new resident Beursplein 5

Entrima sounds gong as new resident at Beursplein 5

Entrima moved its office to Beursplein 5 in Amsterdam, on the former trading floor of Euronext. Its educational services for professionals in the energy markets increasingly cover regulation of the financial markets, including market abuse, surveillance and monitoring. This proofs the ongoing integration of the mentioned markets, as well as the everlasting complexisation of the business, relationships and systems.  

Entrima offers educational services in the field of the energy markets. The content focuses on the energy markets, energy products, pricing of these products and the trading of these products, as well as the regulation of the markets.

The training courses are accredited by the energy sector, because Entrima’s Advisory Board, Programme Commission and Exam Commission consist of executives and managers of market participants, including traders and exchanges. Entrima operates a charter for professionals. Certification, after passing an exam, is one of the criteria for registration. Due to the increasing significance of regulation, amongst which is market abuse, this charter was set up. It can be considered a form of self-regulation by the energy sector.

For more information: entrima.org

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