Our commitment: Events and partnerships for a strong financial centre Frankfurt
Together with numerous stakeholders, we are committed to strengthening Frankfurt as a financial centre. This includes organising and supporting events. Every year, we organise the ‘Frankfurter Bankentag’, which focused the topic of ‘The future of the financial centre Frankfurt’ in 2024. We are also a regular cooperation partner for important events, such as Frankfurt Digital Finance, Euro Finance Week, the Euro Finance Summit and many other key events on financial centre topics.
Germany as a financial centre - Securing our future together
We are committed to a future-proof German financial centre. Together with other players in the financial centre, we contributed to the policy paper of the Taskforce ‘Finanzplatz’, which was presented to the Hessian state government on 12 February 2025.
Central location of international significance
Frankfurt plays an important role in the German and European economy. ‘Mainhattan’ benefits from its central location and is embedded in the economically dynamic Rhine-Main region. Frankfurt is home to more than 250 financial institutions, the majority of which are foreign banks. Ranked tenth in the world among global financial centres (The Global Financial Centres Index 36), it has established itself as the leading financial centre in continental Europe.
The centre of European monetary policy
European monetary policy is conducted in Frankfurt, as the European Central Bank (ECB) is based here. It is the central bank of the twenty member states of the European Union that have introduced the euro. Frankfurt is also home to the Deutsche Bundesbank, which has been part of the Eurosystem since 1999 and is therefore responsible for the euro together with the ECB and the other national central banks.
The city is also an important centre for national and European financial regulation and supervision. The Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), which has been supervising the banks in the eurozone together with national supervisory authorities since 2014, is based in Frankfurt. In 2010, the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) was also established in Frankfurt with the aim of monitoring the financial system in the EU and preventing systemic risks. Since 2025, Frankfurt has also been home to the AMLA, the European Union's new anti-money laundering authority.
Centre of global sustainability in the financial market
Frankfurt occupies a key position in the field of sustainability. The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) has been based here since 2022. It develops global standards for sustainability reporting and thus plays an important international role.
Frankfurt is also home to the Green and Sustainable Finance Cluster Germany, which brings together the activities of various players to create synergies for an efficient transformation process.
Location for culture and digitalisation
Located in the heart of Europe, Frankfurt offers an impressive variety of cultural highlights: Internationally renowned museums along Frankfurt's Museumsufer and in the surrounding cities, numerous theatres and stages, and a wide range of festivals and events. As well as being a cultural magnet, Frankfurt has been a major trade fair centre in Germany for over eight hundred years. Thanks to its excellent infrastructure - with important road and rail junctions and Frankfurt Airport, one of the largest in Europe - the city is well connected.
The cosmopolitan atmosphere and good quality of life make the region attractive to a diverse international community.
Proximity to the financial sector is an important factor in Frankfurt’s growing FinTech scene. Under the heading of digital banking, the financial centre is driving forward the digitalisation of products and processes, while at the same time providing access to investors and capital. In 2016, the Frankfurt TechQuartier was founded, a start-up and FinTech initiative with public support and partners from industry, finance and research.
In terms of digital infrastructure, Frankfurt is a leading centre for data centres and is home to one of the world's largest internet hubs.
Promoting education - strengthening location factors
The Rhine-Main region is one of the largest and most important centres of education in Germany, with a large number of state and private colleges and universities. In Frankfurt, the excellent economics, finance and management programmes are particularly noteworthy. More than 60,000 students are enrolled at Frankfurt’s three major universities.
Founded in 1914, Goethe University is now the third largest university in Germany. It is also home to the House of Finance, which combines several interdisciplinary research and further education activities in the fields of finance and financial law. Bankenverband Mitte regularly organises events in close cooperation with the House of Finance.
The Frankfurt School of Finance & Management offers state-recognised and accredited bachelor’s and master’s degree programmes and doctoral programmes and is home to several research centres. For many years, Bankenverband Mitte has awarded prizes to the best graduates of the Bankfachwirt, Bankbetriebswirt and Management programmes.