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FinTech Group - Leading online brokerage

FinTech Group’s (FTG) online brokerage business, Flatex, has been benefiting from the popularity of exchange-traded products and its customer base rose by c 30k over nine months to c 200k as at end-September. Flatex’s market share has risen to c 25% in Germany and c 50% in Austria, and further European expansion is planned. In addition to its brokerage businesses, FTG leverages its value chain by providing modular and standardised core banking technologies to B2B customers, most of which are banks. Management’s goal is to grow the business both organically and through acquisitions so that it generates €150m of annual revenues in the mid-term along with EBITDA of €50m. Despite being the fastest-growing major broking business in Europe, the shares continue to trade at a discount to the sector.
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FlatexDEGIRO AG

Flatex AG, formerly known as Fintech Group AG, is a Germany-based company engaged in the financial technology sector. The Company divides its business into two operational segments: Securities Trading and Financial Services (ST & FS) and Transaction Processing and White-Label Banking Services (TP & WLBS). The ST & FS segment includes online brokerage in the business-to-consumer (B2C) sector in Germany (on trading platforms such as flatex.de, vitrade.de) and Austria (flatex.at). The operations are conducted by the subsidiaries flatex GmbH and ViTrade GmbH. The TP & WLBS segment includes the business-to-business (B2B) activities of subsidiaries XCOM AG and FinTech Group Bank AG that focus on research and development in the area of financial technology and provide back-end execution of securities transactions for the Company's own platforms and for other banks, as well as offer business process outsourcing services.

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