In February 2022, Optiver announced its investment in Sharegain, a leading FinTech offering an innovative new solution for borrowing and lending securities.
Sharegain CEO Boaz Yaari dropped by our Amsterdam headquarters recently to talk about partnership, the ins-and-outs of securities lending and more. Watch the full video below, and click here to learn more about Optiver’s Principal Strategic Investments team.
Optiver is a global market maker with offices in Amsterdam, London, Chicago, Austin, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taipei. Founded in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. Through our Principal Strategic Investments (PSI) arm, we form long-term strategic relationships with leading companies linked to our core mission of improving markets, with the aim of imparting our knowledge and philosophy to the companies we invest in.
Optiver and Northpool today announced that Optiver has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Northpool, a European energy trading firm headquartered in Leiden, the Netherlands.
Optiver is partnering with Explaining Markets, an AI competition based on research by University of Chicago Booth School of Business professors Bradford Levy and Ralph S.J. Koijen.
Optiver, a leading global market maker, announced a strong set of financial results for the year 2025, as the company marked its 40th anniversary.
Optiver is partnering with IIT Bombay to launch the IIT Bombay-Optiver AI Innovation Lab — a dedicated research facility that will support cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research in artificial intelligence.
Based in Washington, D.C., the Psaros Center is a leading academic initiative focused on advancing research, convening policymakers and financial industry leaders, and raising the quality of solutions-oriented discussion that impacts financial markets policy and practice.
Optiver’s new Sydney office at 275 Kent Street, is a purpose-built workplace designed to accelerate innovation, attract top talent, and strengthen the firm’s role as a leading market maker and liquidity provider in the Asia Pacific region.
