FrankfurtRhineMain – home to capital financial competency
Excellent financial and insurance expertise converges in FrankfurtRhineMain. Frankfurt am Main has an excellent reputation as one of the world's leading financial centers. As home to the European Central Bank (ECB), it is the City of the Euro. Currency policy decisions affecting 300 million people are made here. The city on the Main river is also home to: the German Federal Bank (Deutsche Bundesbank), the Asian Development Bank, the Chinese Central Bank and the World Bank group. Frankfurt am Main ranks fourth in terms of global financial centers - behind London, New York and Tokyo.
Deutsche Börse AG is one of the world's most modern electronic stock exchanges. It is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, as is the Securities Supervisory Office of the Federal Financial Services Supervisory Authority (BaFin), which is responsible for monitoring the security of financial transactions. Frankfurt's stock exchange is the world's third largest after New York and London. The EUREX futures market has even taken over from Chicago as the biggest futures and options exchange.
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