Optiver

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with more than 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Dirk Gotink (Member of the European Parliament) and

27 Jun 2025 · Capital markets

Meeting with Ugo Bassi (Director Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union)

5 May 2025 · Prudential regime for investment firms

Meeting with Cristina Dias (Cabinet of Commissioner Maria Luís Albuquerque), Nuno Vaz (Cabinet of Commissioner Maria Luís Albuquerque)

10 Apr 2025 · Short meeting at the margins of the Eurofi High-Level Seminar in Warsaw

Meeting with Auke Zijlstra (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Mar 2025 · European Capital Markets and SIU

Response to Savings and Investments Union

7 Mar 2025

Meeting with Philippe Thill (Cabinet of Commissioner Maria Luís Albuquerque)

19 Feb 2025 · Exchange with Optiver on Regulation (EU) 2019/2033 (IFR)

Meeting with John Berrigan (Director-General Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union)

27 Nov 2024 · Single and capital market integration

Meeting with Aura Salla (Member of the European Parliament)

26 Sept 2024 · Introductory meeting, EUs competitiveness

Meeting with Stéphanie Yon-Courtin (Member of the European Parliament) and

11 Sept 2024 · Capital Markets Union

Meeting with Florian Denis (Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness)

22 Feb 2024 · next decade’s challenges and opportunities for EU financial markets : functioning of the market structure, digitalisation of capital markets

Meeting with John Berrigan (Director-General Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union) and

30 Jan 2024 · IFR-IFD, Europe’s capital markets

Meeting with John Berrigan (Director-General Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union)

17 Jan 2024 · Upcoming event on CMU

Meeting with John Berrigan (Director-General Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union)

6 Oct 2023 · CMU

Meeting with Mairead McGuinness (Commissioner) and

21 Sept 2022 · Energy Derivatives market

Meeting with Tommy De Temmerman (Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness)

17 Mar 2022 · Investment firms classification & commodities

Meeting with Danuta Maria Hübner (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

1 Mar 2022 · MiFIR Review

Meeting with John Berrigan (Director-General Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union) and Fleishman-Hillard

8 Oct 2021 · CMU

Meeting with Florian Denis (Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness), Tommy De Temmerman (Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness)

22 Mar 2021 · CMU/MifID/Inv Firms Regime