Eurex
| Type | Derivatives exchange |
|---|---|
| Location | Eschborn, near Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| Founded | 1998 |
| Owner | Deutsche Börse AG |
| Key people | Members of the Board: Robbert Booij (CEO), Melanie Dannheimer, Quinten Koekenbier, Jonas Ullmann |
| No. of listings | About 2,200 Futures and options in equity, equity index, interest rate, volatility, dividend, FX, ETFs |
| Volume | 1.5 bn contracts ADV 5.9 mn contracts |
| Website | www |
Eurex Exchange is a German derivatives exchange which primarily offers trading in European based derivatives. The products traded on this exchange vary from German and Swiss debt instruments to European stocks and various stock indexes. All transactions executed on Eurex Exchange are cleared through Eurex Clearing, which functions as a central counterparty (CCP) for multi-asset class clearing of the above-mentioned exchange-traded product range as well as over-the-counter traded products.
As of 2015, in the Futures Industry Association’s annual survey, Eurex Exchange was ranked as the world's third-largest derivatives exchange by contract volume. The Exchange is headquartered in Eschborn, Germany, near Frankfurt am Main, and it is operated by Eurex Frankfurt AG and Eurex Zürich AG, which are public companies wholly owned by the German stock exchange operator Deutsche Börse AG.