Flow Traders BV
Acronym: Flow Traders
General Information
Identification Code: 045230091761-04
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Entity Form: Limited liability company (BV)
Registration Category: Companies & groups
Registration Date: 4/8/2024
EP Accredited Number: 0
Mission & Interests
Goals: We are a leading global technology-enabled liquidity provider, specialized in Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) with our corporate center in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. We are listed on Euronext Amsterdam.
Our trading desks in Europe, the Americas and Asia provide liquidity across all major exchanges, globally, 24 hours a day.
As a technology company operating in a financial services industry, we use our proprietary technology platform to quote bid and ask prices in thousands of ETP listings, as well as similar financial products. We also provide liquidity to institutional counterparties off-exchange across all regions.
Liquidity provision makes markets more efficient and transparent, promoting better execution quality and lower overall trading costs for market participants.
As a principal trading firm, we trade for our own account and own risk only. We do not have clients, nor do we provide any investment services or ancillary services to others.
Interests Represented: Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Interests:
- Banking and financial services
- Business and industry
- Climate action
- Competition
- Digital economy and society
- Economy, finance and the euro
- Energy
- Environment
- Foreign affairs and security policy
- Fraud prevention
- Institutional affairs
- Single market
- Sport
- Taxation
- Trade
Levels of Interest:
- sub-national
- global
- european
- national
Activities
Main EU Legislative Proposals: While we seek profit by trading in a highly competitive environment, we feel that we must leverage our knowledge and our position as a market participant to safeguard fair, orderly and transparent markets for others. Therefore, we spend considerable resources and efforts to address such outside interests in our regulatory dialogue as it improves market quality for everyone, including more vulnerable participants. We actively contribute to the regulatory dialogue and consultations in order to promote effective and efficient regulation, while keeping an eye on practical implications.
The main EU legislative and policies are:
The review of the Investment Firm Directive and regulation (IFR/D)
The review of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and regulation (MiFID and MiFIR - Including EMIR)
The (review) of the Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCAR)
Any communication or initiatives from the European Commission and Parliament on a European strategy for digitalization and tokenization of assets
Any initiatives or communication from the European Institutions on the usability, admissibility and trading of Exchange Traded Products and Funds (ETps and ETFs)
Any communication or initiatives from the European Commission and Parliament on (micro) market structures of trading of assets, commodities or collateral
Any communication or initiatives from the Eruopean Commission and Parliament on prudential regulation for investment firms
Any communication or initiatives from the European Commission and Parliament on a European strategy for digitalization and tokenization of assets
Any communication and initiatives from the European Commission and Parliament on Shortening the Settlement Cycle to T+1 (including EMIR)
Any communication or initiatives from the European Institutions on the implementation of the Consolidated tape in the EU.
Any communication or activities from the European institutions on the implementation of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD)
Communication Activities: Flow Traders is committed to engage with all our (public) stakeholders through a wide range of activities. Such activities include: (i) organizing or participating in meetings, round tables, workshops, conferences, events; (ii) contributing to/participating in public consultations, hearings or other similar initiatives; (iii) organizing communication and informative campaigns, (iv) participating on/in platforms, networks, grassroots initiatives; (v) preparing/commissioning policy and position papers, opinion polls, surveys, open letters, research work as per the activities covered by transparency register rules.
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A
Head Office
Address: JACOB BONTIUSPLAATS 9
Post Code: 1018 LL
City: AMSTERDAM
Country: NETHERLANDS
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EU Office
Address: JACOB BONTIUSPLAATS 9
Post Code: 1018 LL
City: AMSTERDAM
Country: NETHERLANDS
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Financial Data
New Organisation: false
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Membership Information
Members10 Percent: 4
Members25 Percent: 1
Members50 Percent: 0
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 6
Members F T E: 1.649999976158142
Info Members: Employees in order of involvement:
Head of Public Affairs
Head of Compliance EMA
Board Members (CEO & CRO)
Global head of Tax
Global Head of Legal
Flow Traders is an active member of several trade associations and commit time and resources to these trade associations. The information and analysis Flow Traders receives and uses, coming from these memberships is not included in the FTE equivalence.
Structure
Structure Type: Structure
Organisation Members: FIA European Principal Traders Association (FIA EPTA) represents Europe’s leading Principal Trading Firms (https://www.fia.org/epta).
The Dutch Trade Association of Proprietary Traders (APT) represents proprietary trading firms who trade for their own account and risk are crucial for the proper functioning of the stock exchange, are supervised by the Dutch regulators AFM and DNB (https://www.aptraders.nl).
Holland FinTech is the Fintech Association for the Netherlands. Their mission is to connect people and organizations within the fintech industry, enabling consumers and businesses to benefit from innovation and development (https://www.hollandFintech.com).
The VEUO is a representative organisation of listed companies which looks after the interests of companies listed at Euronext Amsterdam. Their purpose is to contribute to a well-functioning capital market in which listed companies can flourish (https://www.veuo.nl)