1969 was the year of the first moon landing, the legendary Woodstock Festival and the last Beatles concert. And it was the beginning of a new technological era at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, FWB®.
The digital age at FWB starts on 1 February 1969 – earlier than at its competitors. From then on, traders can record their stock exchange transactions via data stations (in the middle of the picture) and process them electronically.
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In 1991, IBIS is rolled out in Frankfurt, a simple supply and demand system without automated matching.
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On 28 November 1997, yet another new era of exchange trading begins. Xetra, the fully electronic trading system for the cash market, replaces IBIS. Stock exchange trading takes on an international dimension: at the start, 222 trading participants from Europe are connected to the system and 109 shares can be traded via Xetra.
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3 July 2017: Deutsche Börse’s IT infrastructure is further harmonised with the T7® trading technology going live for Xetra trading on FWB. Eurex and EEX are already using the technology.