Press release: Leonteq receives BaFin license extension

PRESS RELEASE | LEONTEQ RECEIVES BAFIN LICENSE EXTENSION

Zurich, 13 January 2026

Leonteq today announced that Leonteq Securities (Europe) GmbH has received BaFin approval for a license extension in Germany that will enable it to support Leonteq Securities AG in its trading activities. This marks an important step in the expansion of its retail flow business in the German market.

Leonteq’s retail flow initiative focuses on establishing and expanding an automated platform that specializes in issuing a broad range of securitised products for retail investors and making them easily tradable for private investors, just like equities and ETFs.

As part of these efforts, Leonteq had already taken on the exclusive market maker role for equities and ETFs on BX Swiss in April 2024. In addition, Leonteq successfully launched the issuance and trading of a large number of leverage products listed on the Swiss stock exchanges SIX and BX Swiss around a year later.

Leonteq now offers more than 10,000 listed leverage products in Switzerland, positioning the company among the leading issuers. Within eight months after entering the market, it achieved a 7% market share in the offered product category at SIX. This strong market position is underpinned by a consistently high execution quality. According to the Payoff Market Making Index (PMMI), Leonteq ranked number one for leverage products over the past six months, based on quote availability, spread tightness, and quoted volumes.

Michael Seifried, Head Retail Flow Business of Leonteq, stated: "This additional BaFin license marks an important next step for the launch of our retail flow business in Germany. It will enable us to leverage our local expertise tailored to the German market as well. We are now in the final phase of preparation. Thanks to our state-of-the-art technology platform, we are looking forward to a well-executed launch that will be just as successful as it was in Switzerland."

Christian Spieler, CEO of Leonteq, said: “The retail flow initiative represents Leonteq's largest single investment in recent years. With the license extension we have reached an important milestone in advancing our strategic growth plans in Germany – by far the largest market in Europe. It reinforces our ambition to become a leading issuer of listed securitised products beyond Switzerland. German investors will benefit from the expertise of our local, experienced team and seamless access to our sophisticated platform.”

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LEONTEQ

Leonteq is a Swiss fintech company with a leading marketplace for structured investment solutions. Based on proprietary modern technology, the company offers derivative investment products and services and predominantly covers the capital protection, yield enhancement and participation product classes. Leonteq acts as both a direct issuer of its own products and as a partner to other financial institutions. Leonteq further enables life insurance companies and banks to produce capital-efficient, unit-linked pension products with guarantees. The company has offices and subsidiaries in 13 countries across Europe, Middle East and Asia. Leonteq Securities AG is the main operating subsidiary of Leonteq AG. The company is a securities firm regulated by the Swiss Financial Market Authority FINMA and was assigned a BBB-/stable credit-rating by Fitch Ratings. Leonteq AG is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (SIX: LEON) and was assigned with an AA ESG-rating by MSCI. www.leonteq.com

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