Deutsche Börse: Annual General Meeting Approves Dividend Of 0.36 Euros - Jentzsch Voted New Member Of Supervisory Board - Articles Of Association Now Allow Electronic Voting At AGMs

At their annual general meeting on Wednesday, the shareholders of Deutsche Börse AG voted in favor of disbursing a dividend of 0.36 euros per share, with respect to 102,760,000 shares. The dividend for the financial year 2001 is thus 20 percent higher than the previous year. Of the distributable profit totalling 60 million euros in financial 2001, 37 million euros will be distributed, 23 million euros will be allocated to the retained earnings. Last year, the dividend was 3 euros per share with respect to 10,276,000 shares at that time.

The general meeting voted Dr. Stefan Jentzsch, member of the Executive Board of Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG, Munich, to serve on the Supervisory Board. Jentzsch succeeds Dr. Norbert Juchem, who left the Management Board of Hypo-Vereinsbank as of December 31 and resigned from the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Börse as of the end of the annual general meeting. The Supervisory Board of Deutsche Börse will be newly elected as part of the regular term rotation at the annual general meeting in 2003.

Moreover, the annual general meeting approved an amendment to the Articles of Association. In the future, it will also be possible to take part in the annual general meeting and to cast votes ? to the extent legally permissible - via electronic or other media. Deutsche Börse said that it plans to broadcast its AGM on the Internet or via other electronic media in the future. The participation in the AGM and the exercise of voting rights or other rights of participation is also to be made possible directly via these media, as soon as the legal means are created for this. The Articles of Association are to take these new forms of communication into account.