Petercam Bank selects BinckBank as custodian

Petercam Bank selects BinckBank as custodian
 
Petercam Bank N.V. (Petercam) has chosen BinckBank N.V. (BinckBank) as its
serviceprovider and custodian for all its customers. BinckBank will facilitate
both execution and administration of securities transactions for Petercam's
customers via its online platform. Both companies foresee a solid basis for a
longterm partnership with improvements for Petercam's customers at lower costs.
The implementation is scheduled in the fourth quarter of this year.
 
In this new partnership Petercam is able to entirely focus on its customer needs
and tailor made services in the area of wealth management.
Petercam's customers will experience added value of the partnership with
BinckBank as they get online and realtime access to their investment portfolio,
streaming quotes and other content, e.g. financial news.
 
Bart Tishauser,  Managing Director Petercam
"Petercam always aims for optimalisation of its service and performance for our
customers. As we are extending our wealth management operations -we will open a
branch in Eindhoven- the partnership with BinckBank fits extremely well in this
strategy. Petercam can focus its attention entirely on providing wealth
management services to our customers."
 
Pieter Aartsen, Member of the Management Board of BinckBank
 "Petercam is another well known financial-player in the business of wealth
management that has chosen to provide its customers with our securities
processing which is technically highclass. In our opinion Petercam's choice is
the first building block for of a  long term partnership".
 
Petercam
Petercam Bank N.V. is an independant investment bank belonging to the Petercam
Group, in its own right a leading and independant provider of financial
services. Since Petercam was founded in 1968 it has established offices in
several European countries. Petercam's partnership is made up out of 17
active partners who in turn are responsible not only for laying down the key
strategy of the company but they also play a vital role in the daily management.
Petercam's core activities are private and institutional asset management,
corporate finance and financial markets. The Petercam Group has approximately a
total of 15 billion Euros assets under management, and has 450 employees.
 
In 1999 Petercam started their activities in The Netherlands specialising in
advising both private and business clients as well as professional investors
from their offices in Amsterdam. Further expansion was realised in 2007 when the
Rotterdam office was opened; at the end of this year Petercam is going to extend
its coverage further by opening a third office in Eindhoven. The offices in
Rotterdam and Eindhoven will focus largely on asset management services for
private individuals, small companies and foundations, whilst the Amsterdam
offices will additionally continue to service the professional clients. For the
private investors the account management and asset management is performed with
a high level of efficiency by an expert team of specialists.
 
More information regarding Petercam is available at www.petercam.nl
<http://www.petercam.nl/>
 
BinckBank N.V.
BinckBank N.V. is an online bank for investors and is ranked among the top five
in Europe. As an online broker, we offer our customers fast and low-cost access
to all the main financial markets worldwide. As an asset management bank, we
also provide our customers with support relating to managing their assets via
online asset management and savings services. In addition to fast and low-cost
order executive, we offer professional customers administrative processing of
securities and cash transactions either through an outsourcing variant (BPO) or
through licensing the related software.
 
BinckBank was founded in 2000 and serves more than 390,000 investors and savers
as of the first quarter of 2010. BinckBank's business activities are conducted
through its Retail and Professional Services business units.
 
BinckBank Professional Services provides services to professional customers such
as asset managers, banks and insurers. BinckBank Professional Services supplies
an online product that carries out both the processing of securities and cash
transactions and the complete securities-related administrative process for
these customers so they can focus fully on their core activities. The services
are completely white-label and can be tailor-made to match the customer's
requirements. BinckBank offers these services to professionals in both the
Netherlands and Belgium.
 
For more information about BinckBank Professional Services, please visit:
www.binckprof.nl <http://www.binckprof.nl/>
 
Petercam press office
Bart Tishauser
T  + 31 20 - 5735 501
M  + 31 6 - 53 24 74 13
E  b.tishauser@petercam.nl 
www.petercam.nl <http://www.petercam.nl/>
 
BinckBank press office
Harmen van der Schoor
T + 31 20 - 522 03 78
M + 31 6 - 10 11 73 63
E hvdschoor@binck.nl
www.binck.com <http://www.binck.com/>
 
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Petercam selects Binck as custodian: http://hugin.info/130685/R/1418097/368424.pdf