Financial Centre Frankfurt

International Financial Centre Frankfurt

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Since a couple of decades Frankfurt has established itself as a major node on the map of international capital flows. Contrary to that, little information about the financial centre Frankfurt is available - let alone academic research. This is a major drawback compared to financial centres like London, New York or Hongkong.

This site tries to provide a platform for information about the financial centre Frankfurt. The brief comments on every link allow for an efficient search for the information you need.

However, this site is very limited in terms of range and depth of information. This partially reflects the scarcity of information available but is mainly due to the still premature state of this effort to collect links. Any comments or suggestions are highly welcome. Please help to improve this site! (See below for author's address).

Many of the following links are, well, linked to the (German) capital market, though not directly to the financial centre Frankfurt. However, they are listed here because of the great proximity of these two fields. Note that some of the websites listed below may contain information in German only.

However, if there are any questions left, please do not hesitate to contact me at the e-mail address below.

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Financial Centre Frankfurt .

www.finanzplatz.de "Finanzplatz e.V." (financial centre group) is a lobby-group for promoting the financial centre Germany (read Frankfurt), financed by the German Stock Exchange. Provides loads of informations, mostly concerning the capital market.

www.bundesbank.de/hv/h/index.php The Frankfurt branch of Deutsche Bundesbank (the German central bank), former "Landeszentralbank Frankfurt". It organises the payment settlement system in Frankfurt and recently started promoting the financial centre Frankfurt, especially with its "Financial Markets Reports".

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Central Banks, Banking Federations and others .

www.ecb.int The European Central Bank, of course covers financial market developments all over Euroland.

www.bundesbank.de Deutsche Bundesbank, the German central bank. Its homepage is getting better and better.

www.bdb.de The "Bundesverband deutscher Banken", the federation of German non-public banks. Informations (including homepage-urls) on most German non-public banks, political statements, etc. List of 100 largest German banks.

www.vab.de/ --- temporarily under construction --- The "Verband der Auslandsbanken", the association of foreign banks in Germany. Excellent annual reports, full of information - but not available online so far.

www.voeb.de/ The "Bundesverband der öffentlichen Banken", the association of public banks in Germany. Not too much information, but o.k.

www.bafin.de/ The "Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht", the federal regulation office for financial institutions. Freshly merged large bureau of several former distinct regulators, homepage is not optimal yet.

www.bundeswertpapierverwaltung.de The "Bundeswertpapierverwaltung", the Federal Securities Administration of Germany, located in Bad Homburg near Frankfurt. Administrates and registers Germany's federal debts. You can also privately buy German bonds and others there. Bureaucratic homepage.

www.deutsche-finanzagentur.de/ The "Federal Republic of Germany - Finance Agency GmbH" was founded in 2000 in Frankfurt with the aim of arranging the Federal Government's debt management in a cost-optimum manner. A market-oriented homepage - learn more about Germany's debts.

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Stock Exchange .

www.deutsche-boerse.com "Deutsche Börse", the German Stock Exchange (a company that runs the Frankfurt Stock Exchange). Comprehensive informationen to its markets, many figures.

www.dai.de "Deutsches Aktieninstitut", the German Institute for Shareholding. Attached to the German Stock Exchange, the institute tries to promote "equity-culture" in Germany. Good reports.

www.fese.be Federation of European Securities Exchanges. If you like to compare European stock exchanges, go there first.

www.boersenaufsicht.de/ Links to the regional Exchange Supervisory Authorities. The authority of the state of Hesse (Frankfurt) is responsible for the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Xetra, Eurex etc. Some informative articles available online.

www.kursmakler-fwb.de/ --- temporarily under construction --- The homepage of the official brokers of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The institution of official brokers were liquidated in July 2002 by the 4th "Finanzmarktfördergesetz", the financial markets promotions act. Will relaunch the site as soon as they know what to do next.

http://finanzportal.wiwi.uni-sb.de/ A financial homepage of the Saarland University, includes many scientific work to stock exchanges and trading. Mostly in German.

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Research .

www.ifk-cfs.de Center for Financial Studies. Attached to the Goethe-University, subsidised by Frankfurt's banks. Many highbrow sessions (some of them open to the public) and working papers. Definitly worth more than a short look.

www.finance.uni-frankfurt.de/ In the last years, Goethe-University got started and now demonstrates its strength in financial market research and teaching in its centre of finance. An overview of the researchers and their research. If you look for some people to talk to, go there.

www.ilf-frankfurt.de The freshly inaugurated Institute for Law and Finance at Goethe-University offers a one year master course (LL.M.) for graduates.

www.hfb.de/ The banking-high school in Frankfurt. Combines practical with theoretical training. Only little research so far.

www.ebs.de The European Business School in Oestrich Winkel. One of the leading German business schools. Located 50km away from Frankfurt, this is probably the no.1 recruitment-spot for Frankfurt's banks and consultancies. Interesting professors.

www.whu.edu/ The "Wissenschaftliche Hochschule für Unternehmensführung", Graduate School of Management. Probably the leading German business school. Located 70km away, near Koblenz. Also close connections to the financial centre Frankfurt.

banksandfinance-links Links to institutions in banking and finance, mostly in Germany, provided by a banking chair of university Leipzig.

www.fb3-fh-frankfurt.de/fb3/ The university of applied sciences in Frankfurt. Not too visible in the financial centre so far, bad website. Is mentioned here to complete the list.

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Other Associations .

www.frankfurterfinanzforum.de/ A kind of "first monday" meetings every month to discuss issues on the financial centre Frankfurt. Homepage is not too pleasing, but some useful adresses of people one could talk to.

www.bvi.de/ The "Bundesverband der Investmentgesellschaften", the federation of German investment trusts. Loads of information on funds etc.

www.dirk.org/ The German investor relations circle. O.k. information.

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City and Region .

www.frankfurt-forum.de/ "Wirtschaftsförderung der Stadt Frankfurt", the economic development agency of Frankfurt. Facts and figures on Frankfurt.

www.region-frankfurt-rheinmain.de/ The economic development agency of the region Rhein-main. Facts and figures.

www.frankfurt.de/ The city of Frankfurt. Including theaters, etc.

www.boomtown-frankfurt.com Displays Frankfurt's skyline and the history of the skyscrapers. (In German only.)

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Miscellaneous .

Michael H. Grote My own homepage. Sorry, but I am one of the most interested persons in financial centre development that I know. If you like to learn more about me and my work (downloadable papers on the financial centre Frankfurt), try this ...

Vivien Lo ... and, of course, the homepage of my colleague, Vivien Lo, expert in financial centres and mergers and acquisitions. We are closely working together. Links to her many working papers on the financial centre Frankfurt.

Mergers&Acquisitions Links to data and sites concerning the German M&A-market, provided by Vivien Lo (comments in German only).

www.vernetzung.de A special research unit (until the end of 2000) about networking, was concerned with the region and its competitiveness. Some interesting working papers.

Frankfurt-London Well-known researcher Jonathan Beaverstock from Loughborough university compares expatriats and their specific functions in several financial centres. Together with Prof. Peter Taylor and German colleagues Prof. Meusburger and Michael Hoyler (from Heidelberg) they now focus on Frankfurt and London. Exciting research!

www.king-kamehameha.de/ The club where young investment bankers meet. And young researchers too, sometimes.

Please mail any suggestions for further links, critique or questions to Michael H. Grote (grote@stud.uni-frankfurt.de). Thank you!

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Financial Centre Frankfurt	.
www.finanzplatz.de	"Finanzplatz e.V." (financial centre group) is a lobby-group for promoting the financial centre Germany (read Frankfurt), financed by the German Stock Exchange. Provides loads of informations, mostly concerning the capital market.
www.bundesbank.de/hv/h/index.php	The Frankfurt branch of Deutsche Bundesbank (the German central bank), former "Landeszentralbank Frankfurt". It organises the payment settlement system in Frankfurt and recently started promoting the financial centre Frankfurt, especially with its "Financial Markets Reports".
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Central Banks, Banking Federations and others	.
www.ecb.int	The European Central Bank, of course covers financial market developments all over Euroland.
www.bundesbank.de	Deutsche Bundesbank, the German central bank. Its homepage is getting better and better.
www.bdb.de	The "Bundesverband deutscher Banken", the federation of German non-public banks. Informations (including homepage-urls) on most German non-public banks, political statements, etc. List of 100 largest German banks.
www.vab.de/	--- temporarily under construction --- The "Verband der Auslandsbanken", the association of foreign banks in Germany. Excellent annual reports, full of information - but not available online so far.
www.voeb.de/	The "Bundesverband der öffentlichen Banken", the association of public banks in Germany. Not too much information, but o.k.
www.bafin.de/	The "Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht", the federal regulation office for financial institutions. Freshly merged large bureau of several former distinct regulators, homepage is not optimal yet.
www.bundeswertpapierverwaltung.de	The "Bundeswertpapierverwaltung", the Federal Securities Administration of Germany, located in Bad Homburg near Frankfurt. Administrates and registers Germany's federal debts. You can also privately buy German bonds and others there. Bureaucratic homepage.
www.deutsche-finanzagentur.de/	The "Federal Republic of Germany - Finance Agency GmbH" was founded in 2000 in Frankfurt with the aim of arranging the Federal Government's debt management in a cost-optimum manner. A market-oriented homepage - learn more about Germany's debts.
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Stock Exchange	.
www.deutsche-boerse.com	"Deutsche Börse", the German Stock Exchange (a company that runs the Frankfurt Stock Exchange). Comprehensive informationen to its markets, many figures.
www.dai.de	"Deutsches Aktieninstitut", the German Institute for Shareholding. Attached to the German Stock Exchange, the institute tries to promote "equity-culture" in Germany. Good reports.
www.fese.be	Federation of European Securities Exchanges. If you like to compare European stock exchanges, go there first.
www.boersenaufsicht.de/	Links to the regional Exchange Supervisory Authorities. The authority of the state of Hesse (Frankfurt) is responsible for the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Xetra, Eurex etc. Some informative articles available online.
www.kursmakler-fwb.de/	--- temporarily under construction --- The homepage of the official brokers of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The institution of official brokers were liquidated in July 2002 by the 4th "Finanzmarktfördergesetz", the financial markets promotions act. Will relaunch the site as soon as they know what to do next.
http://finanzportal.wiwi.uni-sb.de/	A financial homepage of the Saarland University, includes many scientific work to stock exchanges and trading. Mostly in German.
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Research	.
www.ifk-cfs.de	Center for Financial Studies. Attached to the Goethe-University, subsidised by Frankfurt's banks. Many highbrow sessions (some of them open to the public) and working papers. Definitly worth more than a short look.
www.finance.uni-frankfurt.de/	In the last years, Goethe-University got started and now demonstrates its strength in financial market research and teaching in its centre of finance. An overview of the researchers and their research. If you look for some people to talk to, go there.
www.ilf-frankfurt.de	The freshly inaugurated Institute for Law and Finance at Goethe-University offers a one year master course (LL.M.) for graduates.
www.hfb.de/	The banking-high school in Frankfurt. Combines practical with theoretical training. Only little research so far.
www.ebs.de	The European Business School in Oestrich Winkel. One of the leading German business schools. Located 50km away from Frankfurt, this is probably the no.1 recruitment-spot for Frankfurt's banks and consultancies. Interesting professors.
www.whu.edu/	The "Wissenschaftliche Hochschule für Unternehmensführung", Graduate School of Management. Probably the leading German business school. Located 70km away, near Koblenz. Also close connections to the financial centre Frankfurt.
banksandfinance-links	Links to institutions in banking and finance, mostly in Germany, provided by a banking chair of university Leipzig.
www.fb3-fh-frankfurt.de/fb3/	The university of applied sciences in Frankfurt. Not too visible in the financial centre so far, bad website. Is mentioned here to complete the list.
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Other Associations	.
www.frankfurterfinanzforum.de/	A kind of "first monday" meetings every month to discuss issues on the financial centre Frankfurt. Homepage is not too pleasing, but some useful adresses of people one could talk to.
www.bvi.de/	The "Bundesverband der Investmentgesellschaften", the federation of German investment trusts. Loads of information on funds etc.
www.dirk.org/	The German investor relations circle. O.k. information.
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City and Region	.
www.frankfurt-forum.de/	"Wirtschaftsförderung der Stadt Frankfurt", the economic development agency of Frankfurt. Facts and figures on Frankfurt.
www.region-frankfurt-rheinmain.de/	The economic development agency of the region Rhein-main. Facts and figures.
www.frankfurt.de/	The city of Frankfurt. Including theaters, etc.
www.boomtown-frankfurt.com	Displays Frankfurt's skyline and the history of the skyscrapers. (In German only.)
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Miscellaneous	.
Michael H. Grote	My own homepage. Sorry, but I am one of the most interested persons in financial centre development that I know. If you like to learn more about me and my work (downloadable papers on the financial centre Frankfurt), try this ...
Vivien Lo	... and, of course, the homepage of my colleague, Vivien Lo, expert in financial centres and mergers and acquisitions. We are closely working together. Links to her many working papers on the financial centre Frankfurt.
Mergers&Acquisitions	Links to data and sites concerning the German M&A-market, provided by Vivien Lo (comments in German only).
www.vernetzung.de	A special research unit (until the end of 2000) about networking, was concerned with the region and its competitiveness. Some interesting working papers.
Frankfurt-London	Well-known researcher Jonathan Beaverstock from Loughborough university compares expatriats and their specific functions in several financial centres. Together with Prof. Peter Taylor and German colleagues Prof. Meusburger and Michael Hoyler (from Heidelberg) they now focus on Frankfurt and London. Exciting research!
www.king-kamehameha.de/	The club where young investment bankers meet. And young researchers too, sometimes.