01 — Local economy
Business in Frankfurt
The European Central Bank, Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank give the city its banking weight, with Deutsche Börse in neighbouring Eschborn and a dense layer of auditors, law firms and fund managers around them. Frankfurt Airport is one of Europe's largest cargo gateways, Industriepark Höchst hosts dozens of chemical and pharmaceutical producers, and the DE-CIX internet exchange has drawn a large cluster of data centres.
Also known as Frankfurt am Main.
Where software helps: Banks, fund managers and their service providers here must meet DORA, BaFin audit requirements and GDPR when automating document-heavy workflows, so AI agents need full decision logs and EU-hosted data.