Profile of BinckBank

BinckBank is a full-service online bank for investors, ranked in the top five in Europe. As an online broker, we offer our clients fast, low-cost access to all the important financial markets around the world. As an online bank for investors, we help our clients look after their capital with our online advice and asset management services and online savings. We offer our professional clients fast, low-cost order execution and administrative processing of securities and cash transactions, in the form of insourcing (BPO) or licensing of the appropriate software.

BinckBank is the largest independent Dutch online bank for investors which is listed on NYSE Euronext Amsterdam. BinckBank has offices in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Spain and employed 559 people as at year-end 2008 (year-end 2007: 481).

BinckBank was founded in 2000 and had 293,236 brokerage and savers as at year-end 2008, of whom 267,668 in the Netherlands, 22,486 in Belgium and 3,082 in France. BinckBank's activities are divided between the Retail and Professional Services business units.