Tagged: six

August 22, 2024 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Switzerland’s SIX notes in a blog post that the market launch of instant payments in the European nation has been announced. As explained in the update shared by SIX, instant payments were “launched in the Swiss market on 20 August 2024.” Around 60 financial institutions… Read More

July 3, 2024 @ 1:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SIX is pleased to launch the Independent Valuation Service for financial instruments, which was co-created with Avaloq based on a strategic partnership. The initiative addresses international financial markets’ need “for end-of-day product valuations from an independent source.” This facilitates client reporting, risk management, and continuous… Read More

June 17, 2024 @ 10:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Laura Bayley, Head Clearing Services, SIX, has been appointed as new SWIFT Board Member, the world’s provider of secure financial messaging services. SWIFT’s Board composition is designed to “ensure SWIFT‘s global relevance, support its international reach and uphold its strict neutrality.” Laura Bayley is Head… Read More

May 22, 2024 @ 10:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) announces that digital asset issuances facilitated on its platform will surpass 1 billion Swiss Francs (CHF) with the settlement of the CHF 200mn bond by the World Bank priced on 15 May. This achievement marks a key advancement in “the realm… Read More

May 4, 2024 @ 10:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Dubai Financial Market (DFM) and SIX, the Swiss Financial Market Infrastructure Group, announced today the signing of a collaboration agreement during the second edition of the Capital Market Summit. The partnership underscores a shared commitment to exploring and implementing collaborative initiatives “aimed at fostering… Read More

April 1, 2024 @ 12:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SIX announced that it had acquired a majority stake in FactEntry, a global provider of fixed-income reference data, analytics, and solutions for financial market participants. SIX is the the stock exchange of Switzerland. This strategic acquisition significantly enhances SIX’s data offering and aligns “with its… Read More

March 22, 2024 @ 7:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SIX, the global financial information provider, and BITA, a provider of indexing technology and services, announced that SIX has made a strategic investment in BITA to strengthen a series of existing joint projects and accelerate the expansion of SIX’s global benchmark platform. Existing BITA shareholders,… Read More

March 3, 2024 @ 9:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SIX is partnering with Clearstream in order for the Connexor service of SIX to become a D7 Digital Market Partner to process and distribute reference data of financial instruments. D7 is Deutsche Börse’s digital post-trade platform for digitizing financial instruments, which allows for the issuance… Read More

February 23, 2024 @ 9:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SIX is driving forward the increased inclusion of SMEs in financial markets. With their partnership, SIX and Greenomy are recognizing the pivotal role that SMEs can play in the transition to a sustainable and low-carbon economy. SIX’ new SME Sustainability Assessment Solution draws “on Greenomy’s… Read More

February 2, 2024 @ 5:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The new SIX Reference Rate Crypto Indices and SIX Real-Time Crypto Indices cover the major crypto assets Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH), giving a comprehensive snapshot of the market and its performance. Built on a transparent rules-based methodology, the indices aim to “foster clarity and… Read More

December 20, 2023 @ 2:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On December 4th 2023, SIX introduced a novel service extension to its Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) franchise, called Quote-on-Demand Europe (QOD Europe). In addition to over 1,700 tradable products listed at SIX Swiss Exchange, clients are now able to trade ETFs listed “on other primary… Read More

November 16, 2023 @ 5:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Over three-quarters (77%) of senior finance executives globally expect the economic environment to improve over the coming year, “up considerably from two-thirds (66%) in 2022.” That is according to the latest Future of Finance Study by SIX – an annual survey “that canvasses the opinions… Read More

November 2, 2023 @ 11:01 am By Michael Wong  |  

The Swiss National Bank said on Thursday it will start a pilot project next month using central bank digital currency (CBDC) for financial institutions. The project, named Helvetia Phase III, will involve the use of wholesale CBDC on the SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) platform, a… Read More

October 26, 2023 @ 10:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

First Trust’s two new products raise the total number of ETFs traded at SIX Swiss Exchange to 1,710. Société Générale takes over market making “for continuous liquidity provision.” Christian Reuss, Head SIX Swiss Exchange, said: “We warmly welcome First Trust Global Funds plc as new… Read More

October 16, 2023 @ 10:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SIX, the global financial information provider, is leveraging leading Network as a Service provider Megaport in order to “provide customers seamless private access to its data services via any major public cloud provider.” The service is available as of today and “covers more than 100… Read More

September 25, 2023 @ 10:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SIX Terravis, SIX’s digital platform for the mortgage market, is contributing to the planned expansion of the Swiss National Bank’s (SNB) liquidity provision framework for the banking sector. Recent experiences show that banks of all sizes and “with different business models can find themselves in… Read More

August 31, 2023 @ 10:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Swift, a global financial services firm that is relied upon by more than 11,500 financial services organizations around the world, has announced a successful blockchain test deemed to show the potential for tokenized assets in the future. According to a statement by Swift, an experiment… Read More

July 11, 2023 @ 12:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Inversis, a Banca March 100%-owned subsidiary specializing in providing global solutions for institutional clients in the financial asset distribution business, has reached an agreement with BME, a SIX company, for the complete acquisition of Openfinance. This firm reportedly “offers technological tools for the provision of… Read More

June 27, 2023 @ 5:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Global members of the buy-side community are “bullish” on digital assets and ESG investing amid widespread dialogue on both spaces, according to new research from SIX Group. The study, ‘Cornerstones for Growth’ (a Future of Finance Report from SIX), “surveyed 300 portfolio managers, asset allocators,… Read More

May 17, 2023 @ 8:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SIX, the global financial information provider, and FlexTrade Systems, a global firm focused on multi-asset execution and order management systems, have announced the integration and availability, as of now, of global real-time market pricing and reference data from SIX, into the Spark cloud-based EMS solution…. Read More