'True Stories of Investing' - flatexDEGIRO drives financial education with high-quality documentation
28.1.2022 12:48:00 EET | Business Wire | Press release
With "True Stories of Investing", flatexDEGIRO AG (WKN: FTG111, ISIN: DE000FTG1111, Ticker: FTK.GR), Europe's largest and fastest-growing retail online broker collaborates with award-winning documentary maker, New Amsterdam, and Discovery, to demystify investing. The documentary premieres on Discovery's channels across Europe starting this weekend and showcases important lessons every retail investor needs to know. In four episodes, renowned journalists, professors, behavioral scientists and investors challenge some of the biggest misconceptions about investing by examining historical events and the mechanisms at work.
Frank Niehage, CEO of flatexDEGIRO: "It is our mission to retailise capital markets and empower private individuals to invest in a self-determined and sustainable way. As Europe's leading online broker, we feel responsible for making trading more simple, more informed, and more secure for our customers. With this innovative documentary, we take financial education one step further. We are very proud to be the first online broker to collaborate with New Amsterdam and Discovery on this important topic and to be part of this outstanding and informative production.
" Muhamad Chahrour, CFO of flatexDEGIRO and CEO of DEGIRO: "In 2021, we have optimised our pricing structure, including commission-free trading of stocks and ETFs in different markets, significantly extended our product offering and invested heavily into IT to provide the highest stability and security on our platforms. Together with a strong push for educational marketing, this unmatched combination of best-in class platforms, products and prices should encourage 250 million people in Europe to invest appropriately and sustainably."
Award-winning director Lyangelo Vasquez delves into the world of investing. The documentary explains the difference between active and passive investing, an exploration that starts with the friendly bet Warren Buffett made against an active fund manager, ultimately proving that a long-term, 'boring' investment strategy can be just as successful.
The documentary also shows how to diversify risk over sectors, regions, and time, while impact investors Mark van Baal and former F1 World Champion, Nico Rosberg, outline how investing can in fact contribute to a better world.
In the course of the documentary, behavioural scientists and pioneers like Hersh Shefrin (Professor at Santa Clara University and best-selling author of "Beyond Greed and Fear") and Wendy De La Rosa (TED speaker and PhD Stanford University) explain how investing requires mental discipline to not get caught in your own brain's psychology of FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out), cognitive bias, confirmation bias and extrapolation bias. These can lead to mechanisms driving markets away from fundamental values as well as creating bubbles and crashes as witnessed by BBC Journalist Rory Cellan-Jones.
About flatexDEGIRO AG
flatexDEGIRO AG (WKN: FTG111, ISIN: DE000FTG1111, Ticker: FTK.GR) operates a leading and fastest growing online brokerage platforms in Europe. Based on modern, in-house state-of-the-art technology customers of the flatex and DEGIRO brands are offered a wide range of independent products with execution at top TIER 1 exchanges. Its technological edge as well as high levels of efficiency and strong economies of scale allows flatexDEGIRO to continuously improve its value proposition to clients, including commission-free brokerage.
With more than 2 million customer accounts and over 90 million securities transactions settled in 2021, flatexDEGIRO is the largest retail online broker in Europe. In a time of bank consolidation, low interest rates and digitalization, flatexDEGIRO is ideally positioned for further growth. Within the next five years, flatexDEGIRO aims to grow its customer base to 7-8 million customer accounts, settling 250-350 million transactions per year - even in years with low volatility.
More information via https://www.flatexdegiro.com/en
Additional features:
Picture: https://eqs-cockpit.com/c/fncls.ssp?u=a07f12c4555ef094194edefc9bbf46ae
Subtitle: We challenge the biggest misconceptions about investing
To view this piece of content from cts.businesswire.com, please give your consent at the top of this page.
View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220128005151/en/
Contact information
For more information please contact:
Achim Schreck
Head of IR & Corporate Communications
flatexDEGIRO AG
Rotfeder-Ring 7
D-60327 Frankfurt/Main
Tel. +49 (0) 69 450001 0
achim.schreck@flatexdegiro.com
About Business Wire
For more than 50 years, Business Wire has been the global leader in press release distribution and regulatory disclosure.
Subscribe to releases from Business Wire
Subscribe to all the latest releases from Business Wire by registering your e-mail address below. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Latest releases from Business Wire
IQM Quantum Computers Becomes First European Quantum Computing Company Listed on a Major U.S. Exchange2.7.2026 17:47:00 EEST | Press release
IQM Quantum Computers (Nasdaq: IQMX) (“IQM”, “IQM Quantum Computers” or the “Company”), a global leader in full-stack superconducting quantum computers, today became a publicly traded company following the completion of its business combination with Real Asset Acquisition Corp. (“RAAQ”). This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260702960460/en/ IQM Quantum Computers Becomes First European Quantum Computing Company Listed on a Major U.S. Exchange The company’s American Depositary Shares begin trading today on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “IQMX”. The listing marks a major milestone for IQM establishing the company as the first European quantum computing company listed on a major U.S. stock exchange. Due to the proceeds of the transaction, IQM maintains a strong pro forma cash position of EUR 337 million. IQM enters the public markets with strong commercial momentum and a rapidly expanding globa
GigaDevice Launches First GD24CL Series I²C EEPROM, Further Expanding Its Non-Volatile Memory Portfolio2.7.2026 17:00:00 EEST | Press release
GigaDevice, a leading semiconductor company specializing in Flash memory, 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs), sensors, and analog products, announced today the launch of its new GD24CL series I²C EEPROM. The series delivers outstanding performance, comprehensive security protection mechanisms, and excellent reliability that addresses the stringent requirements for stable and long-term storage of critical configuration data. These offered features will benefit applications in industrial, energy, Internet-of-Things (IoT), data centers, and networking. As GigaDevice’s first EEPROM product series, the launch further enhances the company’s non-volatile memory portfolio and provides customers with more dynamic storage solutions. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260702394554/en/ GigaDevice Launches First GD24CL Series I²C EEPROM, Further Expanding Its Non-Volatile Memory Portfolio. The GD24CL series is designed with high
Medical University of Graz Enrolls First Patient in DEEPER CHALLENGE Trial Evaluating Spur ® Peripheral Retrievable Scaffold System in a Select CLTI Cohort2.7.2026 14:00:00 EEST | Press release
Reflow Medical, Inc. announces that the Medical University of Graz has enrolled the first patient in the DEEPER CHALLENGE clinical trial. This investigator-initiated, single-center, single-arm, prospective study, supported by a grant, investigates early vessel recoil following below-the-knee treatment using the Spur® Peripheral Retrievable Scaffold System in combination with a commercially available drug-coated balloon. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260701995624/en/ The study investigates early vessel recoil following below-the-knee treatment using the Spur® Peripheral Retrievable Scaffold System in combination with a commercially available drug-coated balloon. The study plans to enroll up to 40 patients with chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) across two distinct cohorts: patients with diabetes and patients with end-stage renal disease receiving hemodialysis for at least six months, with women comprisi
Compass Pathways Announces New Employee Inducement Grants Under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4)2.7.2026 13:30:00 EEST | Press release
Compass Pathways plc (Nasdaq: CMPS), a biotechnology company dedicated to accelerating patient access to evidence-based innovation in mental health, announced today that Compass granted equity awards under the Compass Pathways plc 2026 Inducement Plan to eight newly hired non-executive employees. The equity awards were granted on July 1, 2026 and consisted of options to purchase an aggregate of 63,685 shares and restricted share units or, in the case of employees in the United Kingdom nominal cost options, covering an aggregate of 30,300 shares. The options have an exercise price per share equal to $13.29, the closing price of the Company’s American Depositary Shares on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on the grant date, and will vest over a four-year period with 25% vesting on the first anniversary of the date of the grant and the remaining 75% vesting in equal monthly installments over the three-year period thereafter, subject to each employee’s continued employment. The restricted sh
Infobip Launches PitchMate — An AI Fan Companion for Global Football2.7.2026 13:00:00 EEST | Press release
Global AI-first cloud communications platform Infobip launched PitchMate, a new AI-powered conversational agent that brings football fans closer to the action of the world’s biggest football tournament. Purpose-built for the global football audience, PitchMate joins the TGR Haas F1 Team RaceMate — Infobip’s AI fan engagement solution for the TGR Haas F1 Team — in demonstrating how conversational AI is transforming fan engagement across sports worldwide. RaceMate, launched last April for this year’s motorsport season, is an AI agent on WhatsApp and Apple Messages for Business that puts TGR Haas F1 Team fans at the center of the action. It delivers real-time race data, personalized content, team radio highlights, trivia, and native multilingual support, turning passive viewers into active participants through natural, human-like conversations across every race weekend. Since its launch, RaceMate has reached users in more than 60 countries, achieving more than 40,000 messages exchanged wi
In our pressroom you can read all our latest releases, find our press contacts, images, documents and other relevant information about us.
Visit our pressroom