AFS Energy

AFS Energy is the energy and environmental markets division of AFS Group, a European financial service provider and multi-channel, multi-asset intermediary in wholesale financial markets and renewable energy products. AFS Group is headquartered in Amsterdam, with an additional office in New York, and employs over 180 people. The group was founded in 2000 through the merger of its predecessors, whose collective histories date back more than 175 years. AFS Energy, as a division, provides transaction advice, voice and hybrid broking solutions, Direct Market Access (DMA), and platform services for a wide variety of asset classes, with a particular focus on energy and environmental products. The group serves over 3,000 active counterparties, including asset managers, banks, corporates, family offices, hedge funds, pension funds, insurers, market makers, municipalities, utilities, and more than 10 ministries of finance. AFS is one of the few management and employee owned independent financial intermediaries, and it is fully licensed and regulated by authorities such as the AFM and DNB in the Netherlands, BAFIN in Germany, and FINMA in Switzerland. The AFS Energy division is part of AFS Group's broader offering, which also includes Interest, Execution & Custody, Commodities, USA, and Regulatory services. The group's website lists Energy Platform Solutions as a key division, reflecting its focus on connecting clients to energy and environmental markets. AFS Energy's activities are aligned with the group's mission of being a leading financial and environmental intermediary, providing investing, compliance, and sustainability services and access to all relevant financial and environmental markets.

AFS Energy is a division of AFS Group, whose history dates back more than 175 years through its predecessors. The origins of AFS Group can be traced to 1851, when three financial entrepreneurs set up Troost, Herckenrath & Ten Kate, a firm that specialised in Dutch guilder loans on the money and capital markets for almost 140 years. In 1990, Troost, Herckenrath & Ten Kate was acquired by Amsterdam Option Traders (AOT), an international trading firm set up in 1980 that went public in 1985. In 1984, Schamhart Independent Floor Broker Services opened to facilitate non-members' entrance to the European Option Exchange (EOE), founded in 1978 in Amsterdam. Schamhart was one of the first brokers active on the floor. In 1994, Schamhart set up a separate entity under the name AFS as an independent interdealer broker in equity and bonds. AFS Group was founded in 2000 through the merger of its predecessors. Today, AFS Group is a European financial service provider and a multi-channel, multi-asset intermediary in wholesale financial markets and renewable energy products. It is headquartered in Amsterdam with an office in New York and over 180 employees. The group serves over 3,000 active counterparties and is one of the few management and employee owned independent financial intermediaries. AFS Energy, as a division, focuses on energy and environmental markets, offering transaction advice, broking solutions, Direct Market Access, and platform services. The group is regulated by authorities including the AFM and DNB in the Netherlands, BAFIN in Germany, and FINMA in Switzerland.

• 2000

  AFS Group founded through the merger of its predecessors.

• 1994

  Schamhart set up a separate entity under the name AFS as an independent interdealer broker.

• 1990

  Troost, Herckenrath & Ten Kate acquired by AOT.

• 1985

  AOT went public.

• 1984

  Schamhart Independent Floor Broker Services opened.

• 1980

  Amsterdam Option Traders (AOT) set up.

• 1978

  European Option Exchange (EOE) founded in Amsterdam.

• 1851

  Troost, Herckenrath & Ten Kate founded, specialising in Dutch guilder loans.

Leading financial and environmental intermediary, connecting clients to energy and environmental markets.

• Energy Platform Solutions

  Platform services for energy and environmental markets.

• Transaction advice

  Advisory services for energy and environmental transactions.

• Voice/hybrid broking

  Broking solutions for energy and environmental products.

• Direct Market Access (DMA)

  Electronic access to energy and environmental markets.

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