Tradegate Exchange
The Tradegate market, established in 2009 in Berlin, Germany, is a private investor-focused stock market. Deutsche Börse AG (Frankfurt) owns 42.84 percent of Tradegate Exchange GmbH (also Berlin), while Tradegate AG Wertpapierhandelsbank owns 14.32 percent. The Verein Berliner Börse e. V. owns the remaining 1.01 percent of the GmbH's share capital.
Tradegate AG Wertpapierhandelsbank launched its online trading platform on May 2, 2001. Together, the Internet-based information hub and the German electronic OTC trading system for equities represented a first for the country of Germany. Tradegate was designated as a multilateral trading facility (MTF) by the European Union's Markets in Financial Instruments Directive on November 1, 2007.
The Tradegate Exchange received stock exchange approval from the State of Berlin's stock exchange supervisory authority on May 20th, 2009. In 1861, the Stuttgart Stock Exchange opened for business, making this the first time in Germany that a new stock exchange had been legalized. The Exchange Council's founding meeting took place on December 1st, 2009, and trading began on January 4th, 2010. Since then, Tradegate Exchange has maintained Tradegate as a "regulated market" under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive. Tradegate is an electronic trading system.
Founded:2001
Headquarters: Kurfürstendamm 119, 10711 Berlin, Germany
Website: https://www.tradegate.de
