Deutsche Börse Group, as an internationally leading stock exchange organization, reports on its social and community commitment in the third quarter of 2008. The Group is continuing both its financial and active promotion of education and science, culture, and social affairs.

Issuers issuing assets in the Euro area denominated in US Dollars, Pounds Sterling and Japanese Yen may take immediate advantage of Clearstream's New Global Note (NGN) facility to ensure that their securities can be considered as eligible as collateral for Eurosystem credit operations when complying with the ECB's criteria.

The world’s leading derivatives exchange and clearing house Eurex today said, it shares the European Commissioner McCreevy’s call for action to improve market infrastructure in trading and clearing of OTC derivatives, most importantly credit default swaps (CDS).

rosystem Collateral Management Services was extended to French bonds as of yesterday. This means that customers have now access to a wider range of securities to pledge as collateral to the European Central Bank (ECB) allowing them to access liquidity in an efficient and secured way.

Deutsche Börse has agreed on a cooperation with Private Banking Prüfinstanz. For this year’s FUCHSBRIEFE test Tops 2009 – Die besten Vermögensmanager in A / CH / D / FL / L" ("Tops 2009 – The best asset managers in A / CH / D / FL / L“), Deutsche Börse Market Data & Analytics is to supply objective key indicators for the systematic risk measurement of selected investment recommendations made by banks and independent asset managers.

Eurex, the international derivatives exchange, today announced that it will extend its product offering, with new futures and options based on commodity underlyings in Q1 2009. As a first step, it will launch futures and options on gold on 2 February. The US dollar denominated contracts will be based on the benchmark gold fixing of the London Bullion Market, referenced to the largest gold spot market in the world.

Eurex Clearing today presented a central clearing solution for credit derivatives on invitation by the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. The proposal received support from European authorities who also participated in today's meeting. The Deutsche Bundesbank also backs a European central clearing solution for OTC credit derivatives which will enhance the soundness and stability of European financial markets.

Japan Wealth Management Securities, Inc. (JWM), a Japanese fund distributor, has become the first Japanese customer of Clearstream's Central Facility for Funds (CFF), the innovative solution launched last year to streamline the post trade processes in the cross border investment funds industry.

The international derivatives exchange Eurex today announced that it has reached a license agreement with IPD (Investment Property Databank) and intends to launch futures on the total returns of Investment Property Databank (IPD) Property Indices.

In September 2008, the value of assets under custody held on behalf of customers registered a 1.2 percent rise at € 10.8 trillion (compared to € 10.7 trillion in September 2007) despite a decrease in equities’ market value. Securities held under custody in Clearstream’s international business experienced a rise of 10.8 percent from € 4.9 to € 5.4 trillion and domestic German securities held under custody decreased by 6.8 percent from € 5.8 trillion to € 5.4 trillion.

Xetra-Gold’s success story continued in the third quarter, increasing turnover as well as market share. Order book turnover on all German stock exchanges in this security stood at around €65 million in July, increasing to just under €81 million in August and totaling around €142 million in September.

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