Cross Options, founded in 1979 was among the first market making companies trading in open outcry in the early days of the then very young, since 1978 European Options Exchange (EOE), located at the former exchange building “Beurs van Berlage” in Amsterdam. The EOE merged with the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, later with the Brussels and Paris exchanges to form Euronext. Euronext grew adding LIFFE, the London derivatives exchange and the Lisbon exchanges and merged with NYSE in 2007.
Cross Options through these additions was able to extend the trading facilities for markets other than only the Amsterdam derivatives market. Apart from NYSE Euronext, Cross Options also trades on the German Eurex market.