The new Euronext Athens technology hub was inaugurated today in the presence of French Finance Minister Roland Lescour and Greek Minister of Economy and Finance Kyriakos Pierrakakis.
The centre is an investment by Euronext Group to strengthen its technological infrastructure and create an innovation hub in South East Europe.
The Minister of Economy and Finance, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, said that the choice of Athens for the creation of the Centre demonstrates the progress of the Greek economy and the upgrading of its role in the international capital markets, stressing that the Centre will act as a technology and talent attraction hub.
Athens will become the technology hub that will offer services across European markets, leveraging Greek talent, its growing tech ecosystem and strategic geographic location.
French Finance Minister Roland Lescour said that Greece is on a strong growth path for the coming years and the integration of the Athens Stock Exchange with Euronext, which is a market twice the size of London’s, will be a win-win situation for all sides.
“We believe in Greece’s talent and we want to tap into it,” said Euronext CEO Stefan Bouzna. He expressed confidence in the future expansion of the centre to a new, larger building and new services, stressing that the Euronext group has great expertise in the technology arm.
Jiannos Kontopoulos, CEO of Euronext, said Athens is becoming the technology hub that will offer services to all other European markets. The Greek market has, a rapidly growing technology ecosystem, a highly skilled workforce and a strategic geographical location connecting markets from different regions, all of which the integration of Athens Exchange with Euronext Group and the creation of the new hub will leverage.
