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Introduction

The Holland Financial Centre foundation is a joint initiative set up by organisations from throughout the financial sector. They include banks, insurers, trading firms, pension funds, asset managers, audit firms, law firms and the government. For a full list of the organisations that are associated with the foundation, go to the web page Participants.

As a joint venture, the purpose of the Holland Financial Centre is to strengthen the Dutch financial sector.

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The Amsterdam stock exchange is the oldest in the world. In 1602 the Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) was the first company in the world that went public and The..  read more

Did you know?

Did you know that the world’s leading dealmaker of CO2 trades in the Netherlands?

Following the Kyoto goal to reduce the emission of CO2 gas, the European Commission introduced a emission trading scheme (European Trading Scheme) to simplify the trade of CO2 rights. This system makes individual companies responsible for their contribution in reducing CO2 emission. Banks support companies in this goal and mediate in the trade. A Dutch bank is the world leader with a market share of 20%. This results in a lot of available expertise and knowledge in the Netherlands.

This Dutch success was recognized by the UN and therefore the UN has designated the Dutch world leader as the financial service provider for the Millennium Development Goals Carbon Facility of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). By this partnership, UNDP supports developing countries in setting up projects aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.

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Did you know?

Did you know that the Netherlands has a tax treaty with approximately 75 countries?

Tax treaties with the following countries are in force and effective on 1 January 2007:

Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belarus (White Russia), Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Moldavia, Mongolia, Morocco, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Uganda, Pakistan, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, the Russian Federation, Singapore, Slovak Republic, South Africa, the Soviet Union (the treaty applies to the former member states of the Soviet Union with the exception of Azerbaijan and with the exception of those former member states of the Soviet Union to whom a new treaty applies), Spain, Sri Lanka, Surinam, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, the United States of America, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yugoslavia (this treaty applies to Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia and Montenegro), Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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