Business areas

To be successful on the capital markets, investors rely on up-to-the-minute, accurate information. With Investment Management Solutions, we assist our clients around the world in their investment decisions by providing a wide range of intelligent, data-driven products, index families and software and software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions. This includes offerings that facilitate proactive sustainable investment.

Software solutions
With our subsidiary SimCorp we offer a market-leading platform for investment management to financial institutions. It covers the entire operational value chain within investment management, from securities trading, risk management, and portfolio construction to accounting, financial reporting, and client reporting. Axioma’s investment management solutions consist of market-leading portfolio and risk analytics, covering multi-asset enterprise risk management, portfolio construction, performance attribution and regulatory reporting.

Our brands: SimCorp^®, Axioma^® 

ESG data and research
Via our subsidiary ISS STOXX, we deliver solutions for investors including independent governance research and proxy voting, high-quality ESG data, ratings and analytics. Furthermore, we support corporates with our solutions to design and manage their corporate governance, executive compensation, cyber-risk and sustainability programs including regulatory reporting.

Our brands: ISS Governance, ISS ESG, ISS-Corporate

Index
Via our subsidiary ISS STOXX, we provide an innovative range of index products with global coverage, including STOXX® and DAX®.  Indices are licensed to issuers of financial products, owners of capital and asset managers.

Our brands: STOXX^®, DAX^®

Trading and clearing of investment instruments are at the heart of capital market activities. We organise and operate regulated markets for securities, derivatives, commodities, currencies and other asset classes. To reduce default risk for buyers and sellers alike, fulfilment of closed transactions is ensured by our clearing houses. Trough the acquisition of a majority stake in Crypto Finance we laid the foundation for building an independent, transparent, and highly scalable ecosystem for digital assets under European regulation.

Financial derivatives
The Eurex derivatives exchange is one of the world’s largest markets for trading financial derivatives. It offers a wide range of international benchmark products such as interest derivatives and equity derivatives.

Our brands: Eurex^®, Eurex Clearing, Eurex Repo^®

Commodities
EEX Group offers its participants a market platform for energy and commodities products in more than 30 countries around the world. Its product portfolio comprises power, gas, environmental, freight and agricultural contracts.

Our brands: EEX, ECC, EPEX SPOT, EEX Asia, PXE, Nodal Exchange, Nodal Clear, Grexel, KB Tech and Lacima.

Cash equities
We operate the Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse (FWB®, the Frankfurt Stock Exchange). Besides the specialist trading at Frankfurt Stock Exchange, it also operates  its trading platform Xetra^®  – the global reference market for German equities and the number one in Europe for exchange-traded funds (ETF).

We also offer a variety of segments and transparency standards for the admission and listing of securities of large companies and SMEs. Pre-market initiatives round off these services. In this way, we make a significant contribution to financing the real economy and to promoting innovation in Germany and Europe.

Our brands: Börse Frankfurt, Deutsche Börse, Deutsche Börse Cash Market, Deutsche Börse Venture Network^®, FWB^®, Tradegate Exchange, Xetra^®

Foreign exchange
Our subsidiary 360T is a leading global provider of web-based trading technology, which enables our customers to trade over-the-counter (OTC) financial instruments, particularly foreign exchange and short-term money market products, as well as foreign exchange and interest rate derivatives.

Our brands: 360T^®

Market data
Our business unit Market Data + Services provides market participants around the world with proprietary market data from our trading platforms Xetra and Eurex, as well as with data from its cooperation partners such as 360T, KAIKO, Santiago Stock Exchange, Mexican Stock Exchange or TAIFIEX. With high-quality, reliable information we enable our customers to make investment and trading decisions, manage risk, safeguard assets and meet increasing regulatory requirements.

Our brand: Deutsche Börse

Via our post-trade business Clearstream^®, we offer services for the entire fund ecosystem based on asset safety and efficient distribution. The Vestima® fund processing platform provides order execution, settlement and custody services for all fund types, from investment funds to ETFs and hedge funds. Clearstream also offers services to support fund distribution for asset managers and fund distribution companies.

With Kneip, we provide fund data management and reporting solutions for asset managers. In addition, our FundsDLT^® business operates a decentralised platform for end-to-end fund issuance and commercialisation based on distributed ledger technology (DLT).

Our brands: Clearstream^®, FundsDLT^®, Kneip, Vestima^®

Once assets have been settled correctly, they are held in safe custody. Our post-trade business Clearstream^® administers assets throughout the period for which they are held, offering services such as the handling of corporate actions and dividend payments – across all types of securities. 

Clearstream operates the German and Luxembourgish central securities depositories and one of the two international central securities depositories. We also offer comprehensive collateral, lending and liquidity solutions. In addition, we make post-trading future-ready with our innovative platform D7^® to issue, hold and transfer digital financial instruments.

Our brands: Clearstream^®, D7^®, LuxCSD^® 

Market infrastructure exchanges are mainly driven by technology. Consequently, state-of-the-art IT forms the core of all our business areas. Reliability – i.e. the continuous operation of all its systems – is the top priority. Without this, there would be no transparent pricing or safe custody. 

Deutsche Börse Group is actively shaping the digital change in the financial sector with innovative state-of the-art technologies. By doing so, we aim at further strengthening our position as one of the leading technology providers in the financial industry. 

Our brands: Deutsche Börse, 7 Market Technology^®: A7^®, C7^®, D7, F7^®, M7^®, N7^®, T7^®