Boerse Stuttgart Group

Mark your calendars for Finance Summit 2025 Following the successful premiere of our Finance Summit in Stuttgart in 2023, we’re raising the bar once again: Join us on September 18, 2025, as we co-host the next Finance Summit with Stuttgart Financial, expanding our platform for high-level dialogue across finance, industry, and politics. Boosting European Growth: New Technologies & Capital Markets. This will be the key theme of next year’s event. As Europe grapples with economic stagnation, social tension, and political uncertainty amid geopolitical strife, climate change, and demographic shifts, it’s time to confront these challenges head-on. The Finance Summit 2025 offers a space to chart the path forward. Be there when industry leaders, policymakers, technologists, and investors find answers for the future of Europe – there is great potential in disruptive technologies – from Artificial Intelligence to Blockchain and Cloud Computing. But besides innovation, what is needed for substantial change is vision, relentless effort, and capital to unlock that potential. Save the date and join us on September 18th at Finance Summit 2025, where innovation meets capital.

Start-ups play an important role for innovation. According to the German Startup-Verband, 2.500 new start-ups have been registered in Germany in 2023. However, founders often lack the overview and the network to identify investors and financing opportunities. On the other hand, investors face the challenge of finding relevant start-ups easily. That is why we initially launched our fintech accelerator three years ago as an initiative to strengthen the innovation and start-up ecosystem in the financial services sector. Now, we’re leveling up with the enhanced version: the Finance Accelerator. As a central point of contact for both start-ups and investors, it grows a comprehensive financing network together with strong partners, thus helping more start-ups to obtain financing. As an interface to existing accelerators, the Finance Accelerator also connects the entire start-up ecosystem. Stuttgart Financial

Happy 5-Year Anniversary, LuxX Prime!     Five years ago, the trading segment LuxXPrime was launched as a cooperation of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and Boerse Stuttgart Group. To ensure high levels of liquidity, our internationally active broker EUWAX AG supports smooth, fast and secure securities trading with its financial services as the prime liquidity provider of LuxXPrime.  The main goal: facilitating trades by acting as a possible counterparty for buyers and sellers by quoting two-way prices and ensuring a high presence in the order book. EUWAX AG allows investors to execute their orders on LuxSE at their own convenience. As an additional benefit, all prices quoted on LuxXPrime are firm prices, meaning that the liquidity provider is obliged to execute the order at the published price. This way, cross-border services bring European financial markets closer together.     It was a pleasure to meet Guy Weymeschkirch and Carlo Oly at our Annual Reception last week! Read the interview with Jens Furkert, Head of Fixed Income at EUWAX AG, and find out more about five years of partnering with LuxSE via the first comment below this post.

Financing the Transformation What role does the capital market play in the financing of the transformation in recent times of crises?    The focus of the Wirtschaftsforum der SPD e.V. business reception held at our headquarters in Stuttgart was the discussion of current financial and socio-political transformation challenges of Germany. A strong capital market and the mobilization of retail investors is key. We need a holistic approach to encourage private investment and transform the economy towards greater sustainability.  It is particularly important to position Germany as the location of choice for institutional investors. As the sixth-largest stock exchange group in Europe, we are part of the solution, as the stock exchange activates capital for growth and innovation. Furthermore, the capital markets union and capital market-friendly regulation for companies, e.g., reduction of bureaucracy for stock exchange listings and tax incentives is essential. It was a pleasure to exchange ideas with Tanja Wielgoss, vice president of SPD economic forum, Andreas Stoch, State and Parliamentary Group Chairman of the SPD Baden-Württemberg, Stefanie Münz, Member of the Board of Managing Directors of Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW), Tom Krebs, Ph.D., Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Mannheim and our CEO Dr. Matthias Voelkel and with members and interested guests from business and politics. Photo: Fotografie Lichtblicke

Kickstart for AI with Aleph Alpha and PwC Deutschland   The AI-powered transformation of compliance has just begun: We’re excited that together with Deutsche Bank and VÖB-Service GmbH, we are partnering with creance.ai to evaluate GenAI’s potential for tackling compliance tasks. Dr. Philipp Veit, Head of Group Innovation & Partnerships at Boerse Stuttgart Group, joined the panel discussion this week at the creance.ai Experience Center in Frankfurt.   creance.ai, a PwC Germany and Aleph Alpha Joint Venture, sets up a pilot project with finance industry leaders: We will be using generative artificial intelligence to solve the complex compliance challenges of the new EU regulation DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act). As a highly regulated player, both in our capital markets business and in our crypto and digital business, compliance isn't just a requirement for us – it's the foundation upon which trust and integrity are built.   GenAI has the potential to revolutionize the way we approach our regulatory obligations. Our partnership with creance.ai allows us to combine this innovative technology with our expertise and experience. We aim to transform and strengthen our compliance processes – and to fortify our commitment to transparency, security, and performance.

We are setting the course for a digital European capital market: As part of Europäische Zentralbank’s tests, we have tested the settlement of exchange transactions with blockchain-based securities against central bank money for the first time. Our comprehensive tests included a large number of transactions with five tokenized securities – including bonds, funds and a share. We were able to show that the settlement process can be mapped automatically, step by step and directly between the trading participants – efficiently, securely and without counterparty risk. The settlement time was reduced from two days to just a few minutes – this underpins the benefits of tokenization for market participants. We see blockchain technology as a game changer for the digitalization of the European capital market. With the successful ECB blockchain tests, we have made significant progress in the EU. In Switzerland, our exchange for tokenized securities BX Digital is even set to launch in 2024. Thank you to our partners Commerzbank AG, Deutsche Bank, DZ BANK AG, LBBW, Bankhaus Metzler, V-Bank AG and Deutsche Bundesbank. Together, we will shape the digital market infrastructure of the future.

Talking AI at Boerse Stuttgart Group's Annual Reception We had the pleasure of welcoming over 250 exclusive guests, including over 50 C-Levels from the financial sphere and representatives of supervisory authorities and politics, for a truly inspiring event. Our Annual Reception was all about artificiaI intelligence: In his opening speech Jürgen Steffan pointed out some examples of successful AI use cases at the financial center Stuttgart. Our CEO, Dr. Matthias Voelkel, captivated the audience with insights on the importance of AI, blockchain and cloud technology, showcasing how Boerse Stuttgart Group is at the forefront of crucial innovations. On top of that, we welcomed Jonas Andrulis, CEO of Aleph Alpha, as keynote speaker, taking a deep dive into the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us to make this evening a success! We look forward to many more engaging discussions as we continue to pioneer the future of finance and technology. #AI #Innovation #AnnualReception

With over 400 international colleagues from our seven European hubs, we celebrated our Boerse Stuttgart Group Party last week. What a great event for celebrating our Group-wide success and transformation and connecting with colleagues from our seven European hubs ("The Magnificent Seven"): Stuttgart, Berlin, Frankfurt, Ljubljana, Milan, Stockholm and Zurich.   While we definitely enjoyed the team spirit and the great memories we made, we are also very keen on doing something good for those who are less privileged than us.   This is where STELP e. V. comes in. As part of the STELP Together Days taking place on international Children’s Day, we integrated an open poker table into our Group Party. All buy-ins went directly to a fund that supports housing, food and education of children in Ukraine who lost their parents during the war. Inspired by STELP’s varying claims, ‘Make your party count’, is what we aimed to do.   Thanks to the entire STELP team headed by Serkan Eren for always bringing creative new ways of doing good to the table. We are proud to be one of your supporters and we will keep showing up. Thanks to everyone who tried their luck at the open poker table and going all in for children in need.

What are the key challenges that companies face when they’re looking to grow in a fast-paced world?   From September 11th-15th, senior executives from world leading companies met in Evian, France at this year’s G-20Y Association Summit to enhance a strategic global vision for their companies and for global economies. G-20Y Association is a non-governmental, non-profit organization bringing together top executives from world leading companies and entrepreneurs.   In various interactive sessions, the delegates analyzed business ecosystems in complex business environments and discussed how leadership agility can be fostered. Strategic management of ecosystems using AI, rethinking monetary and financial policies and making organizations more resilient for the future was also on the agenda. Our Head of Leveraged & Investment Products Markus Jung was on site and enjoyed the inspiring atmosphere and the valuable insights. 

The discussion about suitable concepts for private pension provision is becoming increasingly important in Germany. What role do structured securities play in this and what can we do to develop a more profound securities culture? What can politics, supervision, consumer protection and the issuers of financial instruments contribute? To discuss these questions, part of our team was on site at this year’s BSW Forum. ‘Only together, we achieve our goals and dare to have more securities culture!’ – with these words Christian Vollmuth, Managing Director of the BSW – Bundesverband für strukturierte Wertpapiere, kicked off the event. We are happy to contribute to BSW’s work, as structured securities trading has been the core of our capital markets business since the introduction of the Euwax segment 25 years ago. With exciting panel discussions and keynotes from Dr. Jörg Kukies, State Secretary in the Federal Chancellery, and Joschka Fischer, former Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, BSW Forum was once again a great opportunity to meet the structured securities industry. Together, we’re contributing to the understanding of investors’ needs and the actions to take.