- CEO
- Leon Schelske
- Sector
- Retail trade
- Industry
- Specialty stores
- Address
- Munich Germany
- Business
- MWB AG is a Germany-based securities trading bank and capital market partner specializing in order book management, market making, institutional sales trading, and corporate finance advisory. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Gräfelfing near Munich, Germany, the company operates across primary German and European financial trading centers, maintaining branch locations and trading desks in Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Hamburg, and Hannover. The company is publicly traded on the Vienna Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol MWB, with secondary listings across German trading hubs including the Munich and Frankfurt stock exchanges.
The company conducts its business through two principal operating divisions: Securities Trading and Corporates & Markets. Its comprehensive portfolio of products and services includes: electronic market making and order book management (Skontroführung) across multiple asset classes, including domestic and international equities, fixed-income instruments, open-ended mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and structured financial products across European exchanges such as Xetra, the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, the Munich Stock Exchange (gettex), Stuttgart, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hannover, and the Vienna Stock Exchange; designated sponsoring and liquidity provision, serving as a designated intermediary to enhance liquidity, stabilize share prices, and narrow bid-ask spreads for listed corporations; equity capital markets advisory, comprising the structuring, underwriting, and placement of initial public offerings (IPOs), capital increases, secondary placements, and private placements; debt capital markets solutions, including the structuring, issuance, and placement of corporate bonds, convertible debt securities, and promissory note loans (Schuldscheindarlehen); exchange listing consultancy, dual-listing coordination, and regulatory compliance support for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs); and institutional brokerage, offering bespoke sales trading, block trade execution, and algorithmic order routing to institutional investors, private wealth managers, family offices, and banking counterparties.
In recent corporate developments, the company completed a strategic reorganization and rebranding, officially changing its legal name from mwb fairtrade Wertpapierhandelsbank AG to MWB AG to streamline its corporate identity and support expanded capital market activities across European trading venues. To capitalize on the growth of digital brokerages and electronic trading volumes, MWB AG expanded its market making infrastructure and liquidity provision arrangements on retail-focused execution venues such as gettex, while upgrading its low-latency algorithmic execution systems. In addition, the firm has broadened its corporate client portfolio by securing new designated sponsoring mandates for mid-cap issuers in the DACH region, deepened its fixed-income market coverage, and optimized its institutional distribution capabilities to accommodate evolving regulatory and multi-asset trading requirements.