Deutsche Börse Receives Approval for Office in China

Release date: Sep 29, 2008

On Friday, September 26 Deutsche Börse received approval by the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) for establishing a representative office in Beijing. Jianhong Wu is assigned to be Chief Representative Officer, the office is to start operations still in this year.


„With our representative office in Beijing we want to further strengthen and expand our relationships within the Chinese market, which is one of the most important emerging markets to us. We are looking forward, together with our partners, to contribute to the further development of the Chinese financial market. As Deutsche Börse we want to bring in our expertise as a service provider for securities trading“, said Andreas Preuß, Deputy CEO of Deutsche Börse AG and among other things responsible for the Asia activities of the company.

Deutsche Börse has established close relationships with a number of key institutions on the Chinese market. For example, since 2004 the company cooperates with the Shanghai Stock Exchange and since 2008 with the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Thus for, twelve companies already choose the Frankfurt Stock Exchange for their primary listing.


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Deutsche Börse, a German blue chip company and the largest exchange organization worldwide, is a leading service provider to the global securities industry with products and services for issuers, investors, intermediaries and data vendors. The Group covers the entire securities process chain from trading via clearing to settlement and custody. Deutsche Börse Group is also a provider of IT solutions and an insourcing partner for the global securities industry as well as a leading provider of market data and analytics.

Within the Group, Deutsche Börse AG functions as the operating company for the various markets and as the holding company for Deutsche Börse Systems AG, the Group's IT arm as well as Clearstream International S.A., the settlement and custody operation. Furthermore, Deutsche Börse AG holds a 50% stake in Eurex Zürich AG, who owns the American Options Exchange ISE. The Group’s major markets are the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the world’s leading derivatives exchange Eurex.

Deutsche Börse Group has offices in key financial centers around the globe.