Keytrade Bank
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Keytrade Bank, the Belgian’s first online investment site, is a financial services company, based in Belgium and Luxembourg.
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| Type | Public |
| Founded | 1998 |
| Headquarters | Brussels, Belgium |
| Key people | Thierry Ternier, Patrick Boulin, Paul van Diepen, Marie-Ange Marx |
| Industry | Financial services |
| Products | Trading, Banking |
| Net income | € 7,8 Millions (2005) |
| Website | http://www.keytradebank.com |
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[edit] History
Keytrade Bank is the leader in online trading in Belgium. It was founded in 1998 by the creators of “Skynet”, an Internet provider. The idea is to provide an easy and fast access to the most important financial markets.
When founded, the company’s name was “VMS-Keytrade”. In 2002, VMS-Keytrade became Keytrade Bank and acquired its banking status by merging with“RealBank”.
Since January 2007, Keytrade Bank is fully part of the Crédit Agricole Group, one of Europe's largest banking groups, which reinforces its financial bases and confirms its expertise as the leader in online trading in Belgium.
[edit] In the world
Keytrade Bank has its registered office in Brussels and has a subsidiary company in Luxembourg.
[edit] Trade
Keytrade Bank offers all private individuals the possibility to invest directly via Internet on the most important world markets:
- Euronext Brussels - Paris - Amsterdam
- London Stock Exchange
- Milan (Borsa Italiana)
- Frankfurt (Xetra)
- Switzerland (SWX et Virt-x)
- Madrid (Bolsa de Madrid)
- USA (Nyse, Nasdaq, Amex, OTC-BB)
Keytrade Bank also provides to its clients banking facilities related to the current account, savings account and term account.
[edit] Products
Keytrade Bank presents a broad range of products for private investors. The company delivers a total package of financial products for private investors.
[edit] Trading
- Investment products: stocks, options, warrants, turbo’s, mutual funds, trackers, bonds, and structured products.
- Keytrade Pro: professional day-trading and swing-trading platform for FOREX, FUTURES and CFD’s. These markets used to be accessible only for professional investors. The client has tools to carry out analyses and to gain insight into the market trends.
[edit] Banking
Keytrade Bank attributes to its clients:
- a current account: available 24 hours out of 24 anywhere in the world, without management fees; bank transfers, banker's orders and standing orders for free; Bancontact / Mister Cash / Maestro / Proton cards for free and credit cards VISA and American Express,
- a savings account with an high interest rate,
- a term account : period of the term between 1 week and 1 year and with the possibility to break up the term or to extend the time.
The prices suggested by Keytrade Bank are among the lowest prices of the market and this in full transparency
- a fixed and crystal clear price per transaction for the online markets
- online statements for free
- no opening charges or management fees
- no custodian fees or deposit fees on your online assets
[edit] Tools and services
Keytrade Bank also offers tools and services to support the client in his decision-makings. Here are some examples:
- ADVICE: a module that proposes online investment advice, based on the client's trading portfolio,
- different order types: Keytrade Bank offers you a choice out of a multitude of order types (market, open, limit, stop, stop limit),
- real time quotes and streamer: the client gets real time quotes for the available stock exchanges and the access to the streamer which enables real time follow-up of price trends,
- virtual portfolio: the virtual portfolio registers values the client wishes to follow,
- analysis tools such as “technical analysis and the “fundamental diagnostic module” which automatically analyses the financial health of the listed companies,
- idea center: it leads the client in the search of interesting shares.
The client also has access to various services:
- the access to financial news and charts,
- Newsletters for free
- the confirmation of executed transactions by e-mail and/or on your mobile phone,
- the assistance of an Helpdesk every working day from 9 a.m. till 10 p.m.,
- the deepening of the knowledge of the financial language via a lexicon,
- the access to market rules to get acquainted with the specificities of each stock exchange.
