Reports, Statements, Policies & Guidelines

Deutsche Börse Group’s annual report informs its stakeholders about the course of the financial year and summarizes the way in which the company identifies and implements key areas of action, including those related to our sustainability profile.

For many years, we have been integrating our combined management report and our combined non-financial statement in one report. This enables our most important stakeholders such as clients, employees and shareholders to gain a holistic view of our corporate performance. This includes social and ecological topics as well as economic ones. 

Currently, a highly dynamic environment for company reporting exists due to regulatory developments in the field of non-financial reporting. We will therefore continue to develop our reporting over the next few years.

You can find our latest annual report for the year 2024 here. 

Deutsche Börse Group is committed to its corporate responsibility to uphold human rights and the associated environmental standards and to support fair working conditions in cross-border supply chains. Since 1 January 2023, supply chain transparency has been subject to the German Act on Corporate Due Diligence to Prevent Human Rights Violations in Supply Chains (Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz - LkSG). The law stipulates that companies bear the responsibly to respect human rights in their supply chains und requires them to publish an annual report about their management of human rights-related supply chain risks.

With the LkSG report, Deutsche Börse AG fulfils this legal obligation and explains how the LkSG was implemented in the organization and how the due diligence obligations were complied with and monitored. The report also outlines which human rights and environmental risks or violations of a human rights or environmental obligation have been identified in Deutsche Börse AG’s own business area and among direct suppliers, and which measures have been taken to mitigate and prevent those (potential) risks.

You can find our latest LkSG report here. 

The Global Reporting Initiative is a non-profit organization that promotes a sustainable economy, environment and society. Its guidelines serve as a framework for transparent sustainability reporting for companies, governments and NGOs.

The GRI index shows Deutsche Börse Group’s essential indicators as well as corresponding descriptions. The page numbers refer to contents and key indicators in our latest annual report. You can find our GRI Index 2023 here.

As an independent external auditor, PwC verified our GRI Index with limited assurance. This ensures comparability and a reliable quality standard for our sustainability reporting. You can find the report of the independent auditor for our latest GRI Index here.

The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) is an independent non-profit organization founded in 2011 which sets standards for the voluntary disclosure of essential financial sustainability information by companies to their investors. 77 industry sectors can use SASB's industry-specific sustainability reporting standards since 2018.

Since 2021, Deutsche Börse uses the SASB standard for market infrastructure providers to offer structured information on financial and pre-financial topics. In doing so, we create transparency for our stakeholders in the key sustainability dimensions of economic, ecological and social performance, and acknowledge the growing importance of the SASB standard among our investors.

Our SASB Index is based on the standard for security & commodity exchanges and indicates substantial topics for Deutsche Börse Group with associated reference numbers.

You can find our latest SASB Index here. 

The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) was established by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) of the G20 in December 2015. It was created to draft recommendations for consistent and comparable climate-related corporate reporting. The corresponding recommendations report was published in June 2017. The proposed reporting is designed to support the various capital market players in fulfilling their role in promoting climate action by creating transparency in the way companies handle the risks and opportunities presented by climate change. To take the timeframe of climate change into account, the focus is on the medium to long-term strategic orientation of the reporting companies.

We have been actively supporting the TCFD since November 2017. A first statement was published in 2019. It was significantly supplemented in 2021 by the publication of our TCFD index, which was revised on our website in 2023, as we also published our TCFD progress report for the first time. The aim was to present our status quo at the time in relation to the four core elements of TCFD reporting, namely (1) Governance, (2) Strategy, (3) Risk Management and (4) Metrics & Targets, and thus to provide an outlook for continuous further development.

You can find our TCFD Report 2024 here.

Within the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the United Nations have defined 17 goals for global sustainable development (SDGs). These aim to drive sustainable development on a global level and were put into action on 1 January 2016.

Deutsche Börse Group is committed to supporting the achievement of these goals. For Deutsche Boerse Group, the mobilization of finance for sustainable development is a major area for action. With our strategic focus and operations, we either support, or actively contribute to the achievement of the goals described in this report. We have defined the SDGs for which there is a concrete and material connection to our own operational activities or by the use of our products and services by customers.

You can find our SDG Report 2024 here.

In November 2022, Deutsche Börse AG joined the Net Zero Financial Service Providers Alliance (NZFSPA), committing to support the transition to a net-zero economy. As one of the eight sector-specific initiatives of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), launched in April 2021, the NZFSPA includes service providers like investment advisors, rating agencies, auditors, and exchanges. Members have pledged to set targets for transforming services and products to support the goal of a net-zero global economy.

To achieve these commitments, NZFSPA subgroups have developed industry-specific targets, including guidance tailored to the exchange industry's unique context and the diverse circumstances of individual exchanges.

In 2023, Deutsche Börse AG has published its first report for the NZFSPA following such guidance.

This report is Deutsche Börse AG’s second submission to the NZFSPA under this guidance. It outlines the extent to which Deutsche Börse AG is currently meeting, or actively working towards, the exchange-focused and market-focused targets established by the NZFSPA exchange subgroup. The disclosures herein align with the information, timelines, and target setting guidance for exchanges.

You can find our NZFSPA 2024 Report here.