Deutsche Börse Group maintains a regular exchange of knowledge and interests with all relevant stakeholders to fulfil its role as a neutral platform for dialogue, firmly anchored in the middle of the capital market. Deutsche Börse Group’s involvement in this field has an impact on the entire value chain of our business operations. 

For more information, please see dialogue.

As a market infrastructure provider for international capital markets, Deutsche Börse Group sees its central responsibility in ensuring transparency and integrity within the framework of the market structures it provides, thereby promoting their stability and economic success. Its efforts are led by the interests and needs of the various market participants.

Among the core economic functions of a stock exchange is the maintenance of economic prosperity and the fostering of an environment for growth. As a global market infrastructure provider, Deutsche Börse Group operates markets that serve companies of all sizes to raise equity and debt capital, with the aim of growing, creating and securing jobs, and contributing to higher value added.

Deutsche Börse Group’s stakeholders express high expectations when it comes to enforcing transparency and standardisation on the international capital markets. The aspect of data security has emerged as a transparency topic that also requires consideration to counter stakeholders’ reservations. The commitment of Deutsche Börse Group in this area for action affects the entire corporate value chain. 

For more information, please see key figures on corporate management.

The company’s successful business activities are ensured through profitable growth, a robust market position and long-term value added, with the ability to innovate as an important accompanying factor. Deutsche Börse Group’s involvement in this area for action affects the entire corporate value chain. 

For more information, please see value added.

The commitment and performance of our employees are the most important foundations for the success of Deutsche Börse Group. It is the company’s goal to ensure that employees with these qualities continue to seek out – and remain with – Deutsche Börse Group. The company is therefore working to inspire, promote and retain the best talents for the long term by implementing a responsible and sustainable human resources policy, which comprises important factors such as employee satisfaction, job security, remuneration, diversity and equal opportunities as well as occupational health and safety.

Deutsche Börse Group’s involvement in this area for action has an impact on the entire corporate value chain. 

For more information, please see key figures on workforce, employee benefits and Good Corporate Citizenship.

For Deutsche Börse Group, corporate governance means responsible corporate management and control geared towards sustainable value added. Robust corporate governance structures, adequate risk management and compliance systems and consistent disclosure of tax and regulatory strategies ensure responsible corporate governance.

Deutsche Börse Group’s involvement in this area for action has an impact on the entire corporate value chain. 

For more information, please see key figures on corporate management and procurement management.

As an international market infrastructure provider, Deutsche Börse Group organises capital markets characterised by integrity, transparency and security. A responsible member of society, the company endeavours to use its competencies, successfully applied in its core business, to tackle social challenges. In keeping with its stated goal of good corporate citizenship, it is committed to dealing with socially relevant issues with a view to the needs of the various company locations.

Internal stakeholders focus on the existence of informative marketing structures. Deutsche Börse Group’s commitment in this area for action primarily affects customer concerns and internal Group processes.

For more information, please see Deutsche Börse Group – company profile.

Deutsche Börse Group’s products and services provide investors, issuers and other market participants with a marketplace, infrastructure and support to conduct financial transactions or offer financial instruments. In recent years, a comprehensive portfolio of sustainable products and services has emerged. Above all, Deutsche Börse offers a broad range of sustainability indices which can be used by investors as a basis for their sustainable investment decisions. Deutsche Börse Group’s involvement in this area for action primarily affects customer concerns, internal Group processes and, last but not least, the sustainable infrastructure of the markets organised by the company.

For more information, please see sustainable products and services and www.stoxx.com.

In addition to initiating an increasingly careful use of resources, a growing awareness for climate change and its general consequences on the one hand and the effects of core business activities on the other has moved greenhouse gas emissions to the centre of our environmental commitment – on a political and legal level as well as on the part of the company. At Deutsche Börse Group, the environment is an integral part of our sustainability activities. To this effect, one of the measures introduced by Deutsche Börse Group was the development and publishing of a climate strategy based on the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). Environmental issues are also gaining increasing importance in the design process of individual products and services. Deutsche Börse Group’s involvement in this area for action primarily affects the ecological balance of our various locations.

For more information, please see environmental management.