LaBranche & Co.

LaBranche & Co., Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a registered broker-dealer. LaBranche & Co. particularly specializes in options, futures, and mostly exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on various worldwide exchanges, and operates as a market-marker in ETFs worldwide, options and futures on many exchanges. LaBranche & Co. was founded in 1924 and is based in New York, New York. The company no longer specializes in equity securities and rights listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and in equity securities on the American Stock Exchange which was sold in February 2010 to BarCap. EUROPEAN WEBSITE : www.labranche.co.uk LaBranche Structured Products Europe (LSPE) is one of the fastest growing and most active ETP/ETF market makers in OTC execution in Europe. We deal in all assets classes and provide liquidity to Institutional clients, pension funds, banks, broker/dealers including equities, commodities, FX and bonds ETPs. Clients can trade OTC risk, NAV, close ( auctions) and working orders over the day. LSPE is a wholly owned sub of LSP & is fully owned by Labranche Holdings. In Europe, LSPE is a member of LSE (UK) and SIX-Exchange (Switzerland). Specialties ETF, FX Market making, exchange traded fund http://www.cowen.com