Strengthening Europe’s Capital Market Foundation: Deutsche Börse Group’s Commitment for 2026

Release date: Dec 31, 2025

Leveraging the potential of European capital markets to finance innovation, strengthen economic growth, and support sustainable long-term retirement provision is a key priority of Deutsche Börse Group.

Stephan Leithner, CEO of Deutsche Börse Group

Stephan Leithner commented on this as follows:

"One key New Year’s resolution and commitment from us at Deutsche Börse Group is to continue our quest for building a stronger capital market foundation for Europe!”

In a year-end interview with Börsen-Zeitung, Stephan Leithner stressed developments and actions required for one central priority: leveraging the potential of capital markets for Europe – to fund innovation, strengthen economic growth, and enable sustainable long term retirement provision. The online version of the interview touches on many of our proposals.

At Deutsche Börse Group, we contribute as engineers of the capital markets with our reliable, innovative infrastructure across key asset classes and for critical steps that can benefit from infrastructure scale and standardization. Our recently published strategy „Leading the Transformation“ sets a clear path for the years to come, leveraging the power of partnerships with our clients as well as public and private stakeholders across the industry. With 16,000 colleagues globally, of which 10,000 colleagues all over Europe, we are a strong engine for moving European capital markets forward in 2026.