Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Madrid, Munich, Paris, Warsaw – 09 December 2020 Today, EPI Interim Company, responsible for initiating the implementation of the European Payments Initiative (EPI), is pleased to announce that PKO Bank Polski (“PKO BP”), Poland’s largest bank, and OP Financial Group, the leading Finnish retail bank, are joining EPI […]

In his function as CIO/COO, Christoph Böhm leads the Information Technology area of Deutsche Börse Group.

On Thursday, Qontigo’s global index provider STOXX Ltd. announced changes to the DAX index family.

Deutsche Börse has completed the purchase of a majority position in Quantitative Brokers LLC.

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Deutsche Börse will provide technical services until the completion of customer transition in 2021; the completion of the sale will not affect any other services provided by Deutsche Börse Group.

Deutsche Börse’s cash markets generated a turnover of €186.5 billion in November (previous year: €126.7 billion).

As part of the annual review and in the course of methodological changes, the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) has reduced the German O-SII buffer for Commerzbank AG as an otherwise systemically important institution from 1.5% to 1.25% with immediate effect.

The Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) requirement that the Group has to respect as from 1st January 2021 on a consolidated basis is 9.23% (excluding the Pillar 2 guidance), which includes 1.50% for the G-SIB buffer, 2.50% for the Conservation buffer, 0.70% for the Pillar 2 requirement and including 0.03% of countercyclical buffer.

Eurozone in lockdown: the current quarter as well as the first quarter of 2021 will be marked by lockdowns.