Lobby organisation
Optiver
Company · Finance · HQ: Netherlands · Transparency Register entry
As of 7 November 2026, Optiver appears in 16 declared MEP meetings (12 different MEPs), most often with European People's Party.
In their own words
“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.”
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“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.”
Stated goals from the organisation's own Transparency Register filing.
Who they meet, and when
Which groups they meet
Share of this organisation's 16 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.
Meetings by year
Declared meetings per calendar year, 2021–2026. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (8 in 2026). Hatched: 2026 is a part-year - the record runs to 6 Nov 2026.
Group is each MEP's current political group, not necessarily the one they sat with at the time. Shares are rounded to whole percent.
The MEPs they meet most
The 15 most recent declared meetings
| Date | MEP | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Sep 2026 | Sirpa Pietikäinen | MISP |
| 8 Jul 2026 | Gilles Boyer | ECON - banking competitiveness |
| 8 Jul 2026 | Damian Boeselager | MISP |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Auke Zijlstra | Market Integration and supervision |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Martine Kemp | MiSP |
| 25 Jun 2026 | Billy Kelleher | MISP |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Dirk Gotink | Market integration and financial regulation |
| 26 May 2026 | Lara Wolters | Market infrastructure in the Netherlands |
| 15 Oct 2025 | Sirpa Pietikäinen | EU financial policy |
| 27 Jun 2025 | Dirk Gotink | Capital markets |
| 23 May 2025 | Fernando Navarrete Rojas | SIU |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Auke Zijlstra | European Capital Markets and SIU |
| 26 Sep 2024 | Aura Salla | Introductory meeting, EUs competitiveness |
| 11 Sep 2024 | Stéphanie Yon-Courtin | Capital Markets Union |
| 7 Sep 2022 | Gilles Boyer | CRR3, IFR/IFD regime |
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