Frankfurt Financial Centre​

Figures, data and facts about the financial centre Frankfurt​

Frankfurt Main Finance is a competent contact for the financial centre Frankfurt. We can provide you with data, facts and assessments concerning Germany’s most important financial centre and Frankfurt’s position in national and global competition. The contact details of our press officer be found here.

Inhabitants
700000
Bank Employees
0
Financial Institutions​
0

Regulatory authorities based in Frankfurt am Main

  • European Central Bank (ECB)
  • Deutsche Bundesbank (DBB)
  • European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB)
  • Global Legal Entity Indentifier Foundation (GLEIF)
  • Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin)
  • Federal Financial Market Stabilisation Agency (FMSA)
  • European Insurance and Occupational Pension Authority (EIOPA)
  • International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB)
  • Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA)

Trade fair location Frankfurt am Main

  • The financial centre Frankfurt am Main has been known nationally and internationally as a trade fair location for more than 800 years.
  • The first written mention of a trade fair in Frankfurt am Main was in July 1240.
  • The cornerstones of Frankfurt’s trade fair culture: around 1330 Emperor Ludwig IV also privileged a spring fair in Frankfurt.
  • The Messe Frankfurt GmbH – as we know it today – was founded at the beginning of the 20th century. 16 citizens of the city founded the Ausstellungs- und Festhallengesellschaft mBH in 1907.
  • Every year, Messe Frankfurt organises around 200 trade fairs in Germany and abroad – making it one of the world’s largest trade fair, congress and event organisers.
Research Institutes​
0
Students​ in FrankfurtRheinMain
10000
International Students​
0


Sources: Stadt Frankfurt am Main,  Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie, Der Bundesverband der deutschen Banken, Helaba, Wirtschaftsförderung Frankfurt, Messe Frankfurt, Wissensportal FrankfurtRheinMain, AMLA Frankfurt

Effects of brexit on the financial centre Frankfurt​

The Brexit and its consequences for the financial centre Frankfurt: In the category Financial Centre Frankfurt Main Finance compiles among other things all relevant news, background reports, interviews and statements concerning the withdrawal of Great Britain from the European Union and its effects on the financial centre Frankfurt am Main.

 

To mark the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum on June 23, 2016, Frankfurt Main Finance has published a detailed midterm assessment of the financial center’s development. Ten years after the Brexit referendum, the outlook for Frankfurt’s financial center is positive. Since 2016, approximately 15,000 additional jobs have been created in Frankfurt’s financial sector; around 60 institutions have established or expanded their operations in Frankfurt; and the volume of additional bank assets on the books has risen to about 1.3 trillion euros. Frankfurt has thus maintained its position as the European Union’s leading financial center and strengthened its role in financing the German and European economies.

In addition to banks, this includes insurance and reinsurance companies, fund management firms, fintech providers, and venture capital firms. […] As part of the Brexit Tax Accompanying Act, protection against dismissal for certain risk-bearers at major financial institutions was also aligned with the regulations for senior executives.”

Banks that have opted for Frankfurt (selection):​

In focus: Frankfurt as a financial centre

With the 2026 Financial Center Report, Frankfurt Main Finance e. V. is presenting, for the first time, a comprehensive, systematic, and forward-looking assessment of the financial center. This report serves as an assessment of the current situation, a strategic compass, and a policy mandate all at once. Further information on the effects of the shortage of skilled workers and the general development of banking employment in Frankfurt can be found in the Helaba Financial Centre Focus.
Financial Center Report 2026

Frankfurt Life

With close to six million inhabitants, the FrankfurtRhineMain metropolitan region is the second largest economic area in Germany. It extends over parts of three federal states and is one of the most economically dynamic and efficient in Europe. But FrankfurtRhineMain is more than just a successful economic centre. The region offers you a diverse programme of cultural and leisure activities. World-famous museums, renowned orchestras and a lively theatre, art and cultural scene are at home here. You can relax in one of the numerous spa and wellness facilities, take a walk in one of the wine-growing areas, go on a bike tour or play golf in the low mountain ranges Taunus, Spessart and Odenwald as well as in the wine-growing areas Rheingau, Bergstrasse, Franconia and Rheinhessen.

In our Frankfurt Life category you will find exciting tips for excursions, leisure and cultural activities as well as the odd insider tip about the region’s culinary diversity.

Our reading recommendation: The Financial Times publishes insight guides to the worlds most influential financial centres regularly. If you want get some cultural insights on Frankfurts, click here.

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