Leading the Transformation to Deepen European Market Integration and Competitiveness

A strong and competitive Europe is the foundation for shared prosperity, and capital markets play a key role. With the strategy “Leading the Transformation,” Deutsche Börse Group is building bridges between traditional markets and rapidly growing markets for digital and private assets, as well as crypto.

Stephan Leithner commented on this as follows:

“Let’s put Europe in the spotlight!

Tomorrow’s Europe Day is an important reminder of Jacques Delors’ goal: “A Europe built on competition that stimulates, cooperation that strengthens, and solidarity that unites.”

A strong and competitive Europe is the foundation for our shared prosperity, and capital markets play a key role.
At Deutsche Börse Group, this is our daily mission. Our  engineers of the capital markets build the infrastructure for efficient, innovative, and reliable European markets.

From ensuring stability with our trading & clearing platforms during recent unprecedented turbulences to creating a leading European fund ecosystem with our intended acquisition of Allfunds, we are providing the foundation for Europe's future growth.

With our “Leading the Transformation” strategy, and together with many long-standing and new parters, we are building bridges: between traditional markets and new, rapidly growing markets for digital and private assets, as well as crypto. As the leading provider of European market infrastructure with a unique, integrated business model along the entire value chain, we are leading the markets into the future.

But we cannot build this future alone. Europe must now act decisively to fulfill Jacques Delors’ vision of a “borderless single market”.

The propositions in the currently debated EU’s Market Integration and Supervision Package (MISP) are important first steps to deepen market integration and unlock scale effects by facilitating smoother cross-border activity. But Europe needs to go even further!

One crucial element should be increased transparency on the markets to strengthen efficiency, liquidity, and competitiveness. Europe must move from just 30% of trading on transparent venues towards the 50% benchmark set by the U.S. These transparent venues contribute to financing growth, for example through IPOs. To strengthen liquidity and fund European growth, we finally need a level playing field for all types of trading venues!

Let’s put Europe in the spotlight – together!!”