Finanzplatz Frankfurt am Main, the independent site on Frankfurt's financial center

The articles section carries interviews and market commentary from people who work in Frankfurt finance, and the English articles open part of it to readers without German. The event calendar collects dates of conferences, receptions and meetups at the financial center, and the press section carries announcements.

The publisher also runs Fondsboutiquen.de, a portal on independent asset managers, the owner-run fund boutiques outside the large banks. The site describes these firms by three marks: independence, specialization and authenticity.

Frankfurt is home to the European Central Bank, which also supervises the significant banks of the euro area, to the Deutsche Bundesbank and to one of the two seats of BaFin. EIOPA, the EU insurance supervisor, is based in the city, and so is AMLA, the EU Anti-Money Laundering Authority. BaFin and the Bundesbank share the supervision of the smaller German banks that the ECB does not supervise directly. Deutsche Börse Group runs the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Xetra and Eurex.

In the Global Financial Centres Index 38, published by Z/Yen with the China Development Institute, Frankfurt ranked 12th of 120 financial centers, one place lower than in the edition before. The index combines ratings from financial professionals with statistical factors. The page on finance meeting points in Frankfurt lists hubs and conferences, the page on capital markets in Frankfurt covers the exchange and the rules for issuers, and WAIFC, the world alliance of financial centers, counts Frankfurt among its founding members.

Finanzplatz Frankfurt am Main is an event and network partner of Finance Loop and appears among the partner logos on the About page. It supported TechClub 25/3, the fintech and blockchain afterwork party that Finance Loop organized with TechQuartier on March 25, 2025. Both Finanzplatz Frankfurt am Main and Finance Loop are named as media and network partners of Capital & Code, the Frankfurt conference on stablecoins, tokenized funds and payments.

No. Finanzplatz Frankfurt am Main is an independent information portal run by a private publisher in Frankfurt. The industry initiative that speaks for the financial center in Germany, the EU and abroad is Frankfurt Main Finance, which connects banks, asset managers, insurers, fintechs and public authorities.

No other German city hosts the European Central Bank, the Bundesbank and the country's main stock exchange. The head offices of Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank are in Frankfurt too, and the city ranks as the top EU financial center in the Global Financial Centres Index. BaFin has one of its two seats in Frankfurt, next to Bonn.

Most bank towers stand in the Bankenviertel west of the old town, around Taunusanlage and Neue Mainzer Straße: the twin towers of Deutsche Bank, the Commerzbank Tower and the Main Tower among them. The European Central Bank moved east to the Ostend, onto the site of the former wholesale market hall. Deutsche Börse Group has its head office in Eschborn, just outside the city limits.

Finanzplatz Frankfurt am Main publishes articles, interviews and an event calendar for the financial center. Finance Loop lists its own events and partner events in its events overview and on the meetups page, and the FinTech FFM Meetups group posts its fintech evenings on Meetup.com.