Deutsche Börse Group
Deutsche Börse Group is a market infrastructure company that operates trading venues and provides services for the processing of financial transactions. The group includes the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and Xetra, the derivatives market Eurex and the securities-services business Clearstream, alongside market data, index and investment-management software activities.
Issuers and market participants need systems for bringing securities to market, trading them and completing the resulting transactions. Deutsche Börse Group provides different parts of that process through its trading, clearing and post-trade businesses. Banks, asset managers and other institutions also use its data and software to manage investments and related operations.
What the group is made of
Deutsche Börse has four business segments, plus 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 Vestima, the fund platform from Clearstream, which handles orders, settlement and custody for funds. Securities Services is the custody, collateral, lending and liquidity business of Clearstream, 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 roots of exchange trading in Frankfurt go 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. The management board and Exchange Council of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange are described on its 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 custody services at 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?
Deutsche Börse Group owns, 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. Deutsche Börse AG 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?
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 institutional clients, 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 supporting the institutional use 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.