In April 2008, the value of assets under custody on behalf of customers rose to € 10.7 trillion, a 4 percent rise from April 2007 (€ 10.2 trillion). Securities held under custody in Clearstream’s international business experienced a rise of 6 percent from € 4.6 to € 4.9 trillion and domestic German securities held under custody rose by 3 percent from € 5.6 trillion to € 5.8 trillion.

The international derivatives exchange Eurex will be launching derivatives on the MSCI Russia Index denominated in US dollars as of 23 June 2008. This step extends the existing products on Russian underlyings which were introduced in April 2007. Further, Eurex will add another equity option on OJSC Rosneft as of the same date.

Eurex, the international derivatives exchange, gained an 22 percent increase in turnover volume compared year-on-year to 185 million contracts (April 2007: 151 million contracts). The daily average turnover stood at 8.4 million contracts (April 2007: 8 million contracts). Open interest saw a rise of 13 percent to 141 million contracts per the end of March 2008.

Scoach, the European exchange for certificates and warrants, has been offering trading in around 300,000 products on a new version of the fully electronic trading platform, Xetra, since Monday. This means that, with immediate effect, over 260 banks and brokerage firms – 100 of which are based abroad – have direct access to the world's broadest range of structured products. In the past, these products were traded on the trading floor of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

Deutsche Börse opened the General and Entry Standard Conference, for the fourth time in Frankfurt. A total of more than 700 participants are expected to attend the event, which has established itself as Germany’s largest and most successful small and mid-cap conference. With the event, Deutsche Börse brings around 90 companies on the Entry and General Standards together with investors and analysts, serving as a platform for exchanging opinions.

In April the number of trades executed on Xetra was up by 34.7 percent reaching more than 16 million transactions – compared to April 2007 with 12 million trades. Orderbook turnover on Xetra slightly decreased by 1.5 percent year-on-year to €166.5 billion (April 2007: €169.1 billion). On Xetra and the Frankfurt floor €163 billion were turned over in German equities and €8.1 billion in foreign shares.

Deutsche Börse is still European market leader in trading exchange traded funds (ETFs) in the first quarter of 2008. The XTF segment achieved a turnover volume of €31.9 billion in the first three months of 2008 and thus recorded the largest trading volume of all European ETF marketplaces, followed by NYSE Euronext, Borsa Italiana and the London Stock Exchange.

50 young, innovative companies attended the German Equity Forum in Mainz, to orientate themselves in the market for private equity capital and to make new contacts with possible providers of capital. The Equity Forum is the most successful capital markets event in Europe and is geared towards venture capital investors, financing advisors and Business Angels.

Deutsche Börse and the St. Petersburg Currency Exchange (SPCEX) signed a cooperation agreement in St. Petersburg. Under this agreement, the two partners will work together more closely on listing projects. This move is testament to the further expansion of Deutsche Börse's activities in the North-West of Russia with the aim of bolstering existing business relations and exploiting new opportunities.

The international derivatives exchange Eurex will further extend its product offering by introducing 13 new equity options on Belgian, Dutch, French and Spanish underlyings. The new options will be launched on 19 May.

Deutsche Börse Group has published its actual Corporate Responsibility Report. With the report, the company provides an overview of the broad range of CR initiatives the exchange operator is involved in on its home market Germany as well as on the european capital market. The initiatives are divided into the areas of corporate affairs, education and science, art and culture, and social affairs.

In March the value of assets under custody on behalf of customers rose to € 10.5 trillion, a 4 percent rise from March 2007 (€ 10.1 trillion). Securities held under custody in Clearstream's international business experienced a rise of 6 percent from €4.6 to €4.9 trillion and domestic German securities held under custody rose by 2 percent from €5.5 trillion to €5.6 trillion.