Who We Are

We specialize in providing cost-efficient clearing, execution and prime brokerage services to a diverse international client base of market maker and brokerage firms, banks, institutional investors, hedge funds and proprietary trading desks.

KBC Clearing covers the major European stock and derivatives exchanges. Additionally, through a select network of associated clearing firms we offer our institutional clients an efficient global service.

Our centralized clearing infrastructure and sophisticated proprietary systems allow us to offer a flexible, fully integrated clearing and execution service in exchange traded options, futures, stocks and bonds from a single platform.

KBC Clearing benefits from the solid balance sheet of its parent, KBC, the Belgian financial services group.

History

KBC Clearing was founded in 1994 as Labouchere Clearing on the initiative of Bank Labouchere and the Dutch market maker firms AOT, Cross Options and Delta Holding Amsterdam. In 2000 Bank Labouchere sold its stake to KBC, the Belgian financial services group, after which the firm was renamed KBC Clearing. Following a buyout of the other shareholders in 2004 KBC acquired full ownership of the firm.

Today KBC Clearing is one of the leading providers of clearing and execution services on Euronext Amsterdam, with a growing market share on Euronext Paris, Brussels and London and Eurex.

About Our Parent KBC

KBC ranks among the 20 largest financial services companies in the European Union. KBC currently employs some 50 000 people and serves approximately 15 million customers.

In addition to its successful bancassurance model, its solid retail and private wealth management franchises and its services to small and medium sized entreprises, KBC is a prominent niche player in the global derivatives markets.

KBC Group was created in 2005 as a result of the merger of the KBC Bank and Insurance Holding Company and its parent company, Almanij. The KBC Bank & Insurance Holding Company itself was established in 1998 following the merger of three Belgian financial institutions.

KBC has established a second home market in five growth countries in Central and Eastern Europe, which joined the European Union in 2004: Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia. Today KBC is a leading player in each of these respective countries.

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