Eurex Exchange

Eurex Exchange

Type	Derivatives exchange
Location	Eschborn, near Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Founded	1998; 26 years ago (1998)
Owner	Deutsche Börse AG
Key people	Members of the Board: Michael Peters (CEO), Wolfgang Eholzer, Randolf Roth, Jonas Ullmann
No. of listings	About 2,200 Futures and options in equity, equity index, interest rate, volatility, dividend, FX, ETFs
Volume	1.5 bn contracts ADV 5.9 mn contracts
Website	www.eurex.com

Eurex Exchange is a German derivatives exchange which primarily offers trading in European based derivatives. The products traded on this exchange vary from German and Swiss debt instruments to European stocks and various stock indexes. All transactions executed on Eurex Exchange are cleared through Eurex Clearing, which functions as a central counterparty (CCP) for multi-asset class clearing of the above-mentioned exchange-traded product range^[1] as well as over-the-counter traded products.^[2]

As of 2015^[update], in the Futures Industry Association’s annual survey, Eurex Exchange was ranked as the world's third-largest derivatives exchange by contract volume.^[3][4] The Exchange is headquartered in Eschborn, Germany, near Frankfurt am Main, and it is operated by Eurex Frankfurt AG and Eurex Zürich AG, which are public companies wholly owned by the German stock exchange operator Deutsche Börse AG.^[5]