Boerse Stuttgart Digital and tradias plan merger „to form European crypto champion”

Boerse Stuttgart Digital and tradias aim to expand leading European position in the digital and crypto business as a unit of Boerse Stuttgart Group.

The leading European crypto infrastructure providers Boerse Stuttgart Digital and tradias plan to merge. Boerse Stuttgart Digital operates the largest crypto business of all European exchange groups, while tradias is a leading European crypto trading firm.

„The planned merger will create a fully regulated European crypto champion, covering the entire value chain of brokerage, trading, custody, staking, and tokenized assets. The newly formed unit of Boerse Stuttgart Group will include around 300 employees and will operate under a joint management team from Boerse Stuttgart Digital and tradias, with headquarters in Frankfurt and Stuttgart.” – according to the press release.

With their rapid growth and complementary offerings, Boerse Stuttgart Digital and tradias make an excellent match. Boerse Stuttgart Digital operates a regulated crypto broker, a regulated crypto exchange, and a MiCAR-licensed crypto custodian. Its institutional clients include Italy’s biggest bank, Intesa Sanpaolo, DZ Bank with the cooperative banking group, and DekaBank with its crypto offering for savings banks – the two largest retail banking groups in Germany.

tradias also operates across Europe, has outstanding expertise in trading and market making, and its client portfolio includes leading online brokers as flatexDEGIRO, internationally active neobrokers as Trade Republic, service providers as dwpbank, and government institutions. Boerse Stuttgart Digital and tradias intend to combine their strengths in a one-stop shop for European financial institutions that want to offer their customers secure, fully regulated access to cryptocurrencies or to engage in the crypto market themselves.

„With the planned merger of Boerse Stuttgart Digital and tradias, Boerse Stuttgart Group is driving the development and consolidation of the European crypto market. As a reliable and trusted crypto infrastructure partner, we will serve a significant number of leading financial institutions across Europe. In doing so, we want to set the course for further growth and expand our leading position in the digital and crypto business in Europe,“ says Dr. Matthias Voelkel, CEO of Boerse Stuttgart Group.

Christopher Beck, founder of tradias: „We have built strong growth momentum in recent years. By merging with Boerse Stuttgart Digital, we will take the next logical step in our corporate development.”

Michael Reinhard, CEO of tradias: „Together, we will cover the entire value chain for digital assets and create a new European champion with significantly greater reach, strategic depth, and creative power for further market consolidation.“

The merger is expected to be completed in the second half of 2026, subject to the successful conclusion of negotiations and the approval of the supervisory authorities.

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Boerse Stuttgart Group is the sixth largest exchange group in Europe with strategic pillars in the capital markets business and in the digital and crypto business. It operates exchanges in Germany, Sweden and Switzerland. As a true pioneer, it has built the largest digital and crypto business of all European exchange groups. Boerse Stuttgart Group has a workforce of 700 and premises in Stuttgart, Berlin, Frankfurt, Ljubljana, Madrid, Milan, Stockholm and Zurich.

Boerse Stuttgart Digital is the leading crypto infrastructure partner in Europe, offering a modular one-stop-shop for institutional-grade trading and custody solutions. Powered by Boerse Stuttgart Group, with over 160 years of expertise in financial markets, Boerse Stuttgart Digital is fully regulated and MiCAR-compliant. With more than 200 international experts working across the eight hubs in Stuttgart, Berlin, Frankfurt, Ljubljana, Madrid, Milan, Stockholm, and Zurich, Boerse Stuttgart Digital enables financial institutions throughout Europe to provide their clients with easy and reliable access to digital assets.

tradias is the institutional-grade infrastructure and crypto trading engine behind Europe’s top banks & brokers. Enabling 30M+ Europeans to trade crypto via their bank. The default B2B2C rail for crypto in Europe. As a regulated investment firm and crypto-asset services provider with 100% focus on crypto & digital assets, tradias provides the necessary infrastructure and services to enable institutional investors to access the enormous potential of digital assets. tradias enables its customers to trade a variety of >150 cryptocurrencies and other digital assets in a regulated environment, as well as to access a range of other digital asset services such as tokenization.