Deutsche Börse Group
Deutsche Börse Group runs the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Xetra, Eurex and Clearstream, and through ISS STOXX it calculates the DAX. It describes itself as an international exchange organization and market infrastructure provider. The company is headquartered in Frankfurt and has a large office building, The Cube, in Eschborn just outside the city.
What the group is made of
On its business areas page Deutsche Börse lists four segments plus its IT. Investment Management Solutions holds the software firms SimCorp and Axioma and ISS STOXX, which supplies ESG data, governance research and the STOXX and DAX indices. Trading & Clearing holds Eurex for financial derivatives, EEX Group for commodities, the Frankfurt Stock Exchange for cash equities, 360T and Crypto Finance for foreign exchange and digital assets, and the market data business.
Fund Services is Clearstream's fund platform Vestima, which handles orders, settlement and custody for funds. Securities Services is Clearstream's custody, collateral, lending and liquidity business, together with the D7 platform for digital securities.
From a Frankfurt exchange to a listed group
Deutsche Börse AG was founded in 1992, and its shares are part of the DAX. The Wikipedia article traces the roots of exchange trading in Frankfurt back to the city's medieval trade fairs. Two mergers failed on competition grounds: with NYSE Euronext, blocked by the European Commission in 2012, and with the London Stock Exchange Group, blocked in 2017. In 2023 the group bought the Danish investment software firm SimCorp for 3.9 billion euros.
The Frankfurt Stock Exchange itself is an entity under public law, which Deutsche Börse AG operates. Its management board and Exchange Council are described on the exchange's supervisory bodies page, and the page on trading in Frankfurt explains Xetra, Börse Frankfurt and the trading hours.
Digital assets inside the group
The same group now runs crypto trading, crypto custody and tokenized securities. Crypto Finance holds BaFin licenses for crypto trading and custody, 360T operates the crypto venue 3DX for institutions, Clearstream offers bitcoin and ether custody and the D7 DLT platform, and Eurex lists bitcoin and ether futures and options. The page on Deutsche Börse in crypto and digital assets describes each unit, and Eurex and Clearstream have pages of their own.
Upcoming capital markets events in Frankfurt
Where Deutsche Börse people meet the market
The Crypto Assets Conference in Frankfurt is hosted by Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and Deutsche Börse Group together on the Frankfurt School campus. Finance Loop was a partner of CAC 2026 and a sponsor of CAC 2025. The Digital Euro Conference has listed Deutsche Börse among its sponsors, and the TUM Blockchain Conference 2026 in Munich has a speaker from Crypto Finance.
Traders, quants and the technology teams behind exchange trading meet at Finance Loop events in Frankfurt; capital markets in Frankfurt describes that side of the city.
What does Deutsche Börse Group own?
Among others: Eurex and Eurex Clearing, the Frankfurt Stock Exchange with Xetra, Clearstream, EEX Group, 360T, Crypto Finance, ISS STOXX with the DAX and STOXX indices, and the software firms SimCorp and Axioma.
Where is Deutsche Börse headquartered?
Deutsche Börse AG is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main. It also has an office building called The Cube in Eschborn, on the edge of Frankfurt.
Is Deutsche Börse the same as the Frankfurt Stock Exchange?
No. The Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse) is an entity under public law with its own management board and Exchange Council. Deutsche Börse AG is the listed company that operates it, along with many other markets and services.
Does Deutsche Börse run a crypto exchange?
For institutions, yes: 360T runs the 3DX venue, with Crypto Finance settling and holding the assets. Private investors reach crypto through Deutsche Börse by buying crypto exchange-traded notes on Xetra through their bank or broker.
Deutsche Börse Group and Finance Loop
Finance Loop was a partner of CAC 2026 and a sponsor of CAC 2025, the Crypto Assets Conference that Frankfurt School and Deutsche Börse Group host in Frankfurt. Finance Loop follows the group's work on exchange trading, tokenized securities and crypto custody in its Investment & Digital Assets track.
Finance Loop is a professional network and has the goal of driving the adoption of emerging technologies in finance, such as AI, digital payments, cloud and blockchain solutions. Finance Loop helps its members build skills and personal networks in these fields: Investment & Digital Assets, Payments & Digital Money, Digital Infrastructure & Sovereignty, and Risk & Compliance.