Six Drive 2022 en Book
Six Drive 2022 en Book
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CONTENT
8 Drive — PERFORMANCE
10 EXCHANGES
12 SECURITIES SERVICES
14 FINANCIAL INFORMATION
16 BANKING SERVICES
18 Drive — INNOVATION
18 INNOVATION FIELDS
20 PROMOTING STARTUPS
20 INNOVATION AS TRADITION
21 Drive — STABILITY
21 SECURITY AND AVAILABILITY
22 SUPERVISION AND REGULATION
22 COMPLIANCE AND DATA PROTECTION
24 Drive — EXPERTISE
24 DIVERSITY IN THE WORKFORCE
26 SIX AS AN EMPLOYER
26 SHARING KNOWLEDGE
27 Drive — RESPONSIBILITY
27 SUSTAINABLE FINANCE
28 ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE
28 FINANCIAL LITERACY
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THE FUTURE OF
FINANCE IS NOW
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WELCOME TO SIX
PERFORMANCE
INNOVATION OUR PURPOSE
STABILITY We strengthen the
EXPERTISE
RESPONSIBILITY competitiveness of our
clients in our domestic and
international financial
markets through top-class
services and innovation.
WHAT WE DO
SIX provides and operates
stable and efficient infrastruc-
ture for the Swiss and Spanish
financial centers, thus ensuring
access to the capital markets
and the flow of information
and money between financial
market players. We are the
Swiss competence center for
payments and other banking
services. We provide data,
regulatory services, and in-
dices to customers around
the world.
EXCHANGES
SECURITIES SERVICES
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
BANKING SERVICES
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CUSTOMER FOCUS
COLLABORATION
OWNERSHIP
TRUST
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EXCHANGES
As the operator of SIX Swiss Exchange and BME
Exchange, we consolidate listing and trading under
one roof. And with SIX Digital Exchange (SDX), we
are defining the securities value chain of the future.
SECURITIES SERVICES
From the initial clearing of a trade to final payment,
SIX provides its customers access to its top-class
range of post-trade services at every stage.
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
As a global provider of financial information, SIX
delivers high-quality reference, pricing, corporate
action, and ESG data and provides regulatory services
and indices.
BANKING SERVICES
As the competence center for Swiss payment trans-
actions, SIX supports banks with innovative services in
an increasingly digitalized world.
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With SDX, SIX ensures security and reliability for the evolution
of the financial ecosystem. SIX Digital Exchange integrates the
issuance, trading, settlement, and custody of digital securities
in a regulated environment.
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EXCHANGES
Measured in terms of the number of freely tradable shares,
SIX – with SIX Swiss Exchange and BME Exchange – is the
third-largest exchange group in Europe by free-float market
capitalization. And with the SDX digital stock exchange, we
leverage distributed ledger technology to offer a fully inte-
grated, secure end-to-end service for the trading, settlement,
and custody of digital assets.
six-group.com/exchanges
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56%
BME supports SMEs via the
BME Growth Market, 56% of which
is focused on four sectors:
– Pharmaceutical and biotech products
– Electronics and software
– Renewable energy
– Engineering
SIX DIGITAL
BME EXCHANGE EXCHANGE (SDX)
Trading: We provide access to The Spanish stock exchange The SDX digital markets
more than 50,000 securities and is based in four different infrastructure will establish
products in a variety of trading cities: Madrid, Barcelona, the Swiss financial center
segments and offer efficient Bilbao, and Valencia. We as a leading hub for digital
exchange trading thanks to the cover equities, fixed-income assets within the global eco-
latest technology, excellent securities, and derivatives, system in addition to playing
trading conditions, and superior and provide market data as a leading role in global wealth
liquidity within an attractive well. Our products and ser- management. It will enable the
securities universe. vices are geared toward trading, settlement, and custody
companies throughout their of digital securities and will
Market data: As a reference entire life-span: from the support the digital evolution
market for more than 50,000 pre-market environment to of non-bankable assets to facil-
stocks, bonds, ETFs, ETPs, spon- BME Growth and on to the itate their exchange and risk
sored funds, and structured main market. Moreover, the management.
products, SIX Swiss Exchange Latibex market is the bridge
is your reliable source when it for Latin American com-
comes to market data for Swiss panies to reach European
securities and indices. investors.
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SECURITIES SERVICES
In the constantly evolving securities services sector,
technology and innovation are of key importance.
SIX is keenly aware of this and therefore continually
invests in new technologies and innovative solutions.
Our proprietary core system SECOM ranks among the
most modern, secure, and – especially importantly –
cost-efficient clearing and settlement systems in the world.
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POST-TRADE
CHF 6 tn
more than 50 markets. Our
CO:RE collateral and repo
platform offers financial
In 2021, the custody volume market participants a com-
managed by SIX amounted prehensive palette of
to 6 trillion Swiss francs.
services associated with
securities services and
serves more than 160 finan-
cial institutions.
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CLEARING
SECURITIES FINANCE
TRADE REPOSITORIES
SETTLEMENT
Pan-European Top-class portfolio AND CUSTODY
multi-asset clearing services
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FINANCIAL INFORMATION
For nine decades, we have been providing verified,
structured, interlinked, and enriched data that smoothly
integrate with our customers’ workflows. Our added-
value services allow our customers to focus their re-
sources on growing their core business.
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REFERENCE AND
PRICING DATA ESG DATA
Using data from over 5,000 Institutional investors are
sources worldwide, SIX aggre- increasingly turning their
gates data in real time for attention toward oppor-
approximately 30 million fi- tunities for sustainable
nancial instruments. investment. One of the
major challenges sur-
With its high-quality reference,
pricing, and corporate actions
rounding ESG* invest-
ments is sourcing re- 12x
data, SIX delivers the basis for liable, consistent, and
SIX has been recognized
confident business decisions. Our comparable ESG data.
as the Best Corporate Actions
database covers a wide range of At SIX, we provide our Data Provider 12 times
asset classes and legal entities. clients with the high- in row (IMD/IRD Awards).
quality ESG data they
SIX delivers security master need to better serve their
data in a model-ready data clients through sustainably
format on integrated big data orientated investment offer-
cloud platforms for the purpose ings. Our range of data services
of machine learning, deriv- includes ESG regulatory data,
ing insights, and conducting alternatively sourced ESG per-
analyses. formance data and ESG indices.
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INDICES ETFs
SIX has a product range for The acquisition of ULTUMUS
the Swiss and Spanish markets enables SIX to offer its clients
that provides investors and access to a data universe on
issuers with the benchmarks approximately 7,700 ETF
they need to measure perfor- products, which corresponds
mance and trade key segments to 95% of the market, making
and strategies. SIX one of the biggest ETF
and index data specialists in
In addition to Switzerland’s the world.
flagship SMI, SBI, and SARON
indices, SIX also provides the By combining the leading
IBEX 35 – the leading index position of ULTUMUS regar-
for the Spanish market – and ding ETFs with the core
offers a broad range of Nordic competencies of SIX in the
benchmarks and a variety of areas of trading, post-trade,
ESG, strategic, thematic, and and data services, SIX is able
client-specific indices. Many to offer market-leading ser-
ETPs, funds, and derivatives vices to its clients involved in
are based on indices from SIX, the ETF market.
and billions of assets are asso-
ciated with indices from SIX.
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BANKING SERVICES
We have been handling payment transactions in Switzerland
for more than 30 years. When digitalizing processes, we
take the lead and continue to develop the circulation of
money, whether electronic, card-based, or cash. This allows
banks to focus on their core business.
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INNOVATION
FIELDS 40%
Innovation is firmly SIX expects that in 2030, around 40% of
global retail sales will be derived online.
rooted at SIX. We are
The SIX white paper titled “Future of
constantly explor- Brick-and-Mortar Commerce” points out
ing new avenues, how traditional brick-and-mortar stores
questioning the sta- will nonetheless continue to exist.
six-group.com/research-reports
tus quo, and taking
advantage of every
business opportunity.
Relying on specialist
knowledge and exper-
tise, SIX develops innova-
tions and thought leadership
in pertinent areas: SIX developed
the world’s leading market infra-
structure for digital assets, cre-
ated the basis for innovation in
open banking and open finance, and in the area of data and ana-
offers modern solutions for se- lytics, and is transforming itself
curity and data protection, is a from a data provider to a provider
pioneer generating new ideas in of artificial intelligence.
investment and asset services six-group.com/innovation
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INNOVATION AS
TRADITION
Innovation is embedded in the
DNA of SIX: 1961 – the world’s
first televised stock exchange;
1996 – the first fully electronic
trading; 2021 – the launch of
SIX Digital Exchange (SDX).
With SDX, SIX will be operating
within a fully regulated,
integrated trading, settlement,
and custody infrastructure
50 mn
SIX launched a corporate
venture capital fund endowed
with CHF 50 million in order
to promote innovation within
the Swiss financial center.
PROMOTING STARTUPS
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SECURITY AND
AVAILABILITY
The systems of SIX are designed to
withstand situations of extreme
stress. In order to ensure
continuous operation, the
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2 of 3
Approvals COMPLIANCE AND DATA
PROTECTION
In Switzerland, SIX holds two of
the three regulatory approvals
SIX and its employees naturally
issued by the Swiss Financial Market
Supervisory Authority (FINMA): comply with all local, national,
one for SIX Swiss Exchange, and and international laws and re-
the other for the SDX digital exchange gulations. In the course of its
since 2021. The digital exchange business activities, SIX collects
offers a fully integrated and secure
and processes a large volume
end-to-end service for the trading,
settlement, and custody of of data. Protecting this data is
digital assets. its top priority. SIX safeguards
the personal rights and privacy
of employees, clients, business
partners, and other interested
parties, and complies with na-
tional and international legal
requirements. This is the foun-
dation for our trusting business
relationships.
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The QR-bill is digitally readable and thus bridges the gap between
the paper-based world and the digital one. eBill minimizes the last
media discontinuities and digitalizes the entire value chain from
billing to payment.
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SIX AS AN EMPLOYER
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SUSTAINABLE FINANCE
SIX Swiss Exchange has been a trading venue With specific ESG equity and bond
for green bonds since 2014 and for sustain- indices, SIX offers the basis for
ability bonds as well since March 2020. Spain, investing in sustainable Spanish
the second domestic market for SIX, ranks and/or Swiss companies with
among the ten most active countries world- financial products.
wide in terms of issuing sustainable bonds.
In addition, several of our Nordic
indices offer filters for ESG, SRI, or
sustainability that can be used for
benchmarking or for index funds.
SIX Exchange Regulation allows all
issuers to opt in for the submission
of sustainability reports that have
been published in accordance with
an internationally recognized
EUR
standard (e.g. GRI).
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FINANCIAL LITERACY
1.5%
money economy. Financial liter-
acy has therefore become one
of the most important elements
of general knowledge. In its pub-
As part of the Zurich Energy Model, lications, and especially in
SIX increases its energy efficiency by tandem with the Swiss Finance
at least 1.5% each year. Museum and the Instituto BME
This corresponds to roughly
in Spain, SIX demonstrates how
300 tons of CO2.
important the financial industry
is in the daily life of each of us.
The first and only finance muse-
um in Switzerland – a country
known for its banks – explains
the functioning of the economic
system and the stock exchange
by means of its multimedia and
interactive exhibition. SIX also
ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE hosts lectures here and orga-
nizes workshops for children
SIX takes a mindful and responsible approach to the and adolescents. The Instituto
use of natural resources. We continuously evaluate BME facilitates financial liter-
measures for reducing our ecological footprint. As part acy at all levels of society with
of the Zurich Energy Model, we are committed to increa- a range of courses on the finan-
sing our energy efficiency by 1.5% annually. Our cial market and financial pro-
environmental management plan includes waste ducts, fintech, regulations, and
separation and recycling, reducing plastic waste, and more.
continuous improvements at our buildings. We are finanzmuseum.ch
currently collaborating with the Myclimate Foundation institutobme.es
to develop a comprehensive climate strategy.
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*
White paper “Future of Wealth Management”: six-group.com/research-reports
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SIX
OUR PURPOSE
We strengthen the competitiveness of our clients in our
domestic and international financial markets through
top-class services and innovation.
WHAT WE DO
SIX provides and operates stable and efficient
infrastructure for the Swiss and Spanish financial
centers, thus ensuring access to the capital markets
and the flow of information and money between
financial market players. We are the Swiss competence
center for payments and other banking services.
We provide data, regulatory services, and indices to
customers around the world.
CHF
1.5 bn
Operating income generated
by SIX in 2021
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1.28 trillion
The trading volume (in Swiss
francs) that was processed by the
Swiss stock exchange in 2021
3,800
Employees working for SIX
in 21 countries
893 million
Number of transactions
that payment transactions
generated between banks
via SIC in 2021
EUR
2 trillion
Combined free-float market
capitalization of stocks trading
on SIX Swiss Exchange and
BME Exchange at the end of
February 2022
Interested in more facts and figures? Take a look at the SIX Annual Report.
six-group.com/annual-report
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The Future
of Finance
Is Now
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SIX Is Present in 21 Countries Worldwide
Norway Sweden
Oslo Stockholm
Luxembourg Denmark
Copenhagen
Netherlands
Amsterdam Poland
Warsaw
Belgium
Brussels Germany
Frankfurt
UK
London Austria
USA Edinburgh Vienna
New York
Stamford CT
Boston
Canada
Membertou
USA
Miami
Switzerland Singapore
Zurich
Colombia Olten
Biel
Bogota Geneva
Spain
Madrid Monaco
Barcelona
Bilbao France
Valencia Paris
Publisher
SIX Group Services Ltd
P. O. Box
8021 Zurich
Switzerland
+41 58 399 21 11
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