Deutsche Börse Group will be moving into a new office building at Mergenthalerallee 61-71 in the Eschborn-Süd business park in the summer of 2010. The final preparations for construction of the new building are underway.

Deutsche Börse is further expanding its segment for exchange-traded index funds on the pan-European Xetra trading platform and has admitted a new ETF issued by iShares to trading.

In July 2008, the value of assets under custody on behalf of customers registered a 1 percent rise at € 10.8 trillion (compared to € 10.6 trillion from July 2007). Securities held under custody in Clearstream's international business experienced a rise of 6 percent from € 4.8 to € 5.2 trillion and domestic German securities held under custody decreased by 2 percent from € 5.7 trillion to € 5.6 trillion.

Certificate trading on Scoach via the technology of the fully electronic and pan-European trading system Xetra has been underway for 100 days now. Transferring the structured products to the Xetra platform reduced the order execution time to a fraction of previous execution times.

Deutsche Börse is further expanding its segment for exchange-traded index funds on the pan-European Xetra trading platform and has admitted three new ETFs issued by Société Générale Asset Management Index (SGAM Index) to trading.

Deutsche Börse AG achieved new record second-quarter results in Q2/2008. Sales revenue rose by 8 percent to €585.5 million (Q2/2007: €542.5 million), reflecting both stable revenue performance in the second quarter in the Group’s two largest business areas, Eurex and Clearstream, and the consolidation of the International Securities Exchange (ISE).

Trading volume at the international derivatives exchange Eurex reached 179.5 million contracts, a rise of 11 percent year on year (July 2007: 162.4 million). The average daily trading volume was 7.8 million compared with 7.4 million the same month a year ago. Driver of growth was especially the segment equity index derivatives.

In July 2008, the number of trades executed on Xetra reached more than 19 million transactions – up 21 percent compared to July 2007 with 16.1 million trades. Order book turnover on Xetra recorded €193.2 billion (July 2007: €222.3 billion), down by 13 percent. On Xetra and the Frankfurt floor €188.7 billion were turned over in German equities and €9.2 billion in foreign shares.

Deutsche Börse Group, the largest exchange organization worldwide, provides information about its social commitment in the second quarter and an overview of activities and future projects in the areas of corporate affairs, education and science, culture, and social affairs.

Eurex Clearing evaluates different formats to introduce a central counterparty (CCP) solution for products which are today handled bilaterally over the counter (OTC). It aims to complement current US initiatives with a European solution. The European OTC CCP platform could utilize existing Eurex Clearing functionality as well as new functionality for trade and risk management.

The Exchange Council of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange resolved a new version of the Exchange Regulations, which includes relaxing the trading hours and would allow trading to start earlier. At the same time, the Exchange Council and the Management Board of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange support keeping the start of trading unchanged with the opening auction at 9:00 a.m.

Eurex Repo and Clearstream's Global Securities Financing services reported a successful first half of 2008. Euro GC Pooling in particular recorded extensive growth due to its link with Clearstream's international liquidity pools. This integrated offer from Deutsche Borse Group simplifies and bundles collateralized liquidity management of securities financing in Europe, which is in considerable demand particularly with difficult and rapidly changing market conditions.