In 2020, EEX Group continued to strengthen its position in the global commodity exchange space by posting significant volume increases across the majority of its energy and commodity portfolio. The major growth drivers were the European power markets, the environmental markets in Europe and North America and the global dry freight markets.

The shift towards passive investments via exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and exchange-traded products (ETPs) continued to rise in 2020. Three important trends in the past year were: The continuing strong increase in demand for sustainable ETFs, a high level of investor interest in thematic investments and a high demand for new products related to the cryptocurrency Bitcoin.

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Eurex’s Partnership Program continued its success story in 2020. In the OTC Clearing segment, notional outstanding volumes grew by 29 percent, the average daily cleared volumes grew by 16 percent overall. In listed derivatives, some of the strongest rises were seen in the number of traded ESG contracts.

An order book turnover of €2.1 trillion was achieved last year on the three trading venues Xetra, Börse Frankfurt and Tradegate Exchange. The total order book turnover for 2019 was €1.5 trillion. Order book turnover in December 2020 totaled €151.2 billion after €109.4 billion in the previous year.