FINANCE Magazine
FINANCE (in German) is a German-language financial media brand for CFOs, corporate finance professionals and their advisers. The editorial focus is the financial management of companies: raising capital, evaluating acquisitions, managing liquidity and organizing the finance department. The publisher is F.A.Z. BUSINESS MEDIA GmbH (in German), a company in the F.A.Z. Group based in Frankfurt am Main.
FINANCE combines daily journalism with a print magazine and e-paper (in German) that appears six times a year and contains interviews, reporting and longer analyses. Online news follows transactions and changes in companies between those issues. Research products and specialist events extend the brand beyond its editorial publications for readers across German-speaking markets.
Corporate funding and capital markets
FINANCE covers company financing (in German), including bonds, Schuldschein loans, stock-market listings and supply-chain finance. Reports examine how companies secure funding and what changes in credit markets mean for the financial terms they can obtain. Green finance and the financing of business transformation are part of this coverage.
The corporate perspective runs through these subjects. A financing decision affects the company's liquidity, debt structure and room for investment. Corporate treasury explains the cash management and financial-risk responsibilities behind many of those decisions.
M&A, private equity and company valuation
The deals coverage (in German) follows company acquisitions, private equity and private debt. FINANCE also examines due diligence, acquisitions of distressed businesses and the work of transaction advisers. The reporting connects individual deals with the financing and valuation questions that companies face before an agreement is signed.
Acquisitions of software businesses bring technology into the same discussion. FINANCE examines how artificial intelligence changes due diligence and the assessment of software business models. These questions overlap with digital finance in Frankfurt, where finance and technology teams work on changes to products and processes.
Finance departments, reporting and AI
FINANCE reports on controlling, accounting and treasury (in German). Subjects include IFRS, cash flow, planning and the organization of financial data. Interviews and company examples give readers a closer view of how finance teams carry out this work.
The coverage includes AI in planning and assistance systems for finance and controlling. Generative AI in finance explains the technology behind some of these applications. FINANCE also follows restructuring and business transformation (in German), including the financing of companies under pressure.
Print, e-paper and newsletters
The magazine's print and e-paper formats (in German) contain the same issue-based journalism, with digital archive access available in the corresponding subscription. FINANCE+ (in German) includes digital editorial content and e-paper access. Readers can choose the format that fits their work; the valuation products have their own access options.
FINANCE Daily (in German) is a weekday newsletter with editorially selected corporate finance news. The topics include transactions, funding, treasury and banking. Further newsletters cover transformation, research and M&A or private equity. Podcasts and FINANCE TV add conversations with finance professionals to the written reporting.
Research and FINANCE Multiples
FINANCE Research (in German) covers financing, M&A, company valuation and banking through surveys, panels and studies. The products include midmarket buyout data, reports and recurring surveys. These materials address the market conditions behind individual transactions.
FINANCE Multiples (in German) is a separate valuation product with EBIT, EBITDA and revenue multiples. The dashboard allows users to select industries and company sizes, compare datasets and export results. The single-report product has a more limited scope. Multiples provide a reference for comparing a business with its market; the valuation methodology (in German) explains the definitions and calculation approach. A transaction still requires analysis of the particular business and its financial position.
Structured FINANCE and specialist events
Structured FINANCE (in German) is the brand's congress and exhibition for corporate financing in Stuttgart. CFOs, treasurers, investors and bankers discuss financing, capital markets and working capital. Treasury, risk management, digitalization and sustainability are also subjects in the program.
The wider FINANCE event program (in German) includes Green FINANCE, FINANCE Transformation, the Deutsche Investorenkonferenz and the Future FINANCE Festival. These formats have different audiences and subjects, from financing the transition to more sustainable business practices to company transformation and private equity.
Publisher and editorial team in Frankfurt
FINANCE has its publisher and editorial office in Frankfurt am Main. Markus Dentz is editor-in-chief (in German) of FINANCE and DerTreasurer, with reporting interests in corporate financing, restructuring and treasury. Julia Schmitt leads FINANCE Online and also moderates FINANCE TV. The team covers companies and financing markets across Germany and the other German-speaking markets.
The publication is part of the financial media in the Frankfurt financial center. Journalists, company finance teams and their advisers address many of the same decisions from different professional perspectives.
FINANCE Magazine and Finance Loop
Finance Loop connects professionals working on emerging technologies in finance. Corporate treasury, AI in financial processes and digital payments are subjects of that exchange. Finance Loop's events bring practitioners together, while financial journalism helps readers follow developments between meetings.
Finance Loop is a professional network for emerging tech in finance. Professionals can join through membership, and companies can discuss cooperation through contact.