Deutsche Börse Group along with project developers Groß & Partner, and Lang & Cie had its groundbreaking today for the announced construction of the Group's new main office building in Mergenthalerallee in Eschborn. Guests at the formal ceremony included the Executive Board of Deutsche Börse AG, Minister President of the state of Hesse Roland Koch and mayor of the city of Eschborn Wilhelm Speckhardt.

Scoach: The magazine “Structured Products”, which specializes in derivatives, has awarded the Frankfurt certificates exchange Scoach the title “Exchange of the Year” for the second year in a row. The magazine lauded in particular the changeover of the exchange’s trading activities to the technology offered by the fully electronic and pan-European trading system Xetra.

Today, Deutsche Börse and the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) signed a cooperation agreement at the German Equity Forum in Frankfurt aimed at closer collaboration in the field of stock exchange listings.

The international derivatives exchange Eurex traded a total of 226.6 million contracts in October (excluding ISE volume), a year-on-year increase of 55 percent (October 2007: 145.9 million contracts).

In October 2008, the number of trades executed on Xetra reached 30.2 million transactions – up 89 percent compared to October 2007 with 16.0 million trades. Order book turnover on Xetra recorded €255.1 billion, up by 25 percent (October 2007: €203.9 billion).

eutsche Börse AG achieved its second strongest quarter ever in terms of sales revenue and EBITA in Q3/2008. Sales revenue rose by 10 percent to €616.1 million (Q3/2007: €561.9 million), reflecting both stable revenue performance in the third quarter in the Group’s two largest business areas, Eurex and Clearstream, and the consolidation of the International Securities Exchange (ISE).

Deutsche Börse is further expanding its XTF segment for exchange-traded index funds (ETFs) on the pan-European Xetra trading platform and has admitted a new ETF issued by Lyxor International Asset Management, a subsidiary of Société Générale, to trading.

The European Energy Exchange AG (EEX) and Eurex achieved the highest monthly volume to date in October 2008 in their jointly-operated market for CO2 emission rights. EUA futures traded 16,666,000 t CO2, 17 times higher compared with October 2007 (977,000 t CO2). October volumes grew by 90 percent compared with the previous record month August 2008.

The international derivatives exchange Eurex today announced that it will extend its OTC Wholesale Facility. Together with the launch of Eurex Release 11, scheduled for 10 November 2008, customers will now be able to reference equity index swaps in the existing functionality Exchange for Swaps (EFS). This will allow trades which combine all available Eurex index futures with related OTC equity index swaps.

Scoach, the Frankfurt exchange for structured products, and the European Derivatives Group (EDG) are implementing the concept they developed together for the analysis of certificate performance. New certificate indices mean that for the first time, there are transparent yardsticks for the most important products.

Paul Graham, Emily Jacir, Tod Papageorge and Taryn Simon have been selected for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2009. The price is presented by The Photographers' Gallery, London, the opening venue for the exhibition. The winner will be announced on Wednesday 25 March 2009.

The Executive Board of Deutsche Börse AG in consultation with the Working Committee for Equity Indices today decided to make additions to the Guide to Equity Indices effective as per 3 November 2008.