The SIX Blog

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What Causes Inflation, and Is It Followed by a Recession?

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Economic Sanctions and the Capital Market: How Financial Institutions Keep Themselves Unscathed

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Private Equity vs. Public Equity: Learn about the Different Ways to Capital

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Cybersecurity: Inspired by Hiro Protagonist – A Podcast on the Reality of Science Fiction

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Corporate Growth with Equity Capital: 5 Sources for the Early Phase – and 1 Source for the Future

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Startup FQX Makes It Possible to Provide Regulated and Decentralized Corporate Finance on Blockchain

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A Safe Place for Assets under Custody – Even in Turbulent Times

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Future of Finance Study by SIX: Here Are 4 Selected Findings That Will Surprise You

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Investing in the Stock Market: 3 Reasons Why You Should Start Today

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Finance for Kids: Inspired by Shelley Zalis – A Podcast on the Foundations of Financial Confidence

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DeFi, DApps, and the Like: How the Financial System Is Becoming Decentralized

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Special Exhibition at the Swiss Finance Museum: From the Very First Bank to Neobanks

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Formula Student: When Students Build the Future of Electric Cars

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Working from Home Sustainably: 5 Tips for the Office inside Your Own 4 Walls

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The End of Swiss Payment Slips: How to Keep Your Standing Orders Activated and Working

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Women Belong in IT, Right Where They’ve Always Been

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Swiss Instant Payments: How and When Will Payments Work “Instantly”?

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Open Banking: Inspired by Valtteri Bottas – A Podcast on the “Drive” of Innovation

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Payment Preferences in Switzerland: 3 Myths and How They Pass the Test of Data

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How Challenges in Equity Research Are Affecting SMEs

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IRS: The World’s Most International Government Agency

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The Next Great Business Idea: Six Questions for Founders to Ask Themselves

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A More Secure Internet: Inspired by Ansel Adams – A Podcast on the Improvement of the Status Quo

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New IPO Trophies for the Spanish Exchange: with Flying Colors

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EU ESG Regulations: How Can Financial Institutions Overcome the Upcoming Challenges?

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Startup Yokoy Leverages Artificial Intelligence to Manage Corporate Spend

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Order Routing: Analyzing the Optimization Problem with the “Rule of Three”

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Data Facilitates Markets

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eBill: Less Greenhouse Gases from Swiss Payment Transactions Thanks to Digital Handling and Storage of Invoices

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Diversity and Inclusion Month at SIX: One Month, One Topic, Many Perspectives

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Getting Listed as a SME: Xlife Sciences Shows What’s Possible with Sparks

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What Is This Metaverse Thing Anyways? And What Does It Mean for Banks?

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A Bug Bounty Program for SIX: When Companies Invite In Hackers

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Mental Stress when Working from Home? – Taking Stock after Two Years of Pandemic

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How Do Stock Exchange Quotes Get on Television?

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Tackling Climate Change: Why Exchanges Play a Crucial Role

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Annual Results 2021: SIX Continues to Deliver on Its Growth Strategy

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Warrants: 3 Challenges That Issuers Are Facing – and 1 Solution That Helps the Spanish Market to Overcome Them

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Financial Literacy: Key to Success

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Sustainable Finance: Inspired by Christiana Figueres – A Podcast on the Effect of Stubborn Optimism

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Wealth Management in Change: 4 Competencies the Industry Needs to Build for the Future

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Is Working from Home Better for Our Climate?

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Can You Buy an NFT for a Hundred Swiss Francs? A Self-Experiment, Part 2

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Stability in Times of Crisis – How SIX Ensures the Continuity of Its Business

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Can You Buy an NFT for a Hundred Swiss Francs? A Self-Experiment, Part 1

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Open Banking: Taking a Wait-and-See Approach Can Get Expensive

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Capital Markets: 6 Trends that Shaped the Last Year and Will Keep Us Busy in 2022

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LIBOR and SARON: What Is the Difference?

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What Can Capital Markets in Latin America Learn from Europe for Their Growth?

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Interview with the Winner of the SwissCham Digital Transformation Award: Bizzi

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SIX as Venture Capitalist

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Strong Together against Fraudsters

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Working from Home Works

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Denial of Service: When a Tidal Wave of Data Crashes

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Regulatory Divergence and Dark Trading: Eyes Wide Shut?

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Going Global: Coming to New Perspectives

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Discontinuation of Payment Slips – Switch to QR-Bill Picks Up Speed

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Have Equity Markets Decoupled from the Real Economy?

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Inspired by Daniela Ryf: The Staying Power of Cash

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Licenses Approved: Dialog with the Regulator Proved Valuable with SDX

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The Future of Fraud Detection Systems – New Technologies to Help against Fraudsters

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Swiss Stock Exchange: Back to Normality with Innovation and Variety

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Inspired by Sheryl Sandberg: The Impact of Taking Control

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Trading InfoSnack: Stale Prices and the Price of Being Stale

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Diversity Makes the Company Grow

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Swiss Instant Payments Service Takes Off Soon

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Capital Markets Embrace Sustainability: Three Factors That Drive Inflows Into ESG Assets

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Cash Supply: 4 Strategic Summaries on the Path to the Future

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Inspired by Thomas Tuchel: The Passion for Detail

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Working from Anywhere

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On Course for Efficiency and Quality Thanks to Standards

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The Advantage of Competition

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Securities Services: Developing Innovations That Today Shape the Securities Landscape of Tomorrow

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Shopping Securely with the New Debit Cards

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The Future of Data – Is Data Management Sexy Now?

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4 Trends Impacting Exchanges – and 5 Building Blocks They Need to Base Their Strategy for the Future On

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ETF Trading: When Two Worlds Meet

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Payment Slips Are Being Discontinued – Companies Recognize the Need to Take Action

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When Emotional Investment Is a Bad Thing

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OpenWealth: Switzerland’s Financial Industry Defines Standards for Open Finance by Itself

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The Rhyme of History

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The Future of Sustainable Finance

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“Women Are Highly Sought after in Technical Professions and Companies throughout the World”

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Microwaves – the Fastest Connection between Data Centers

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Preventing Card Fraud – The Police Show How

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Is Decentralized Finance the Future of Open Finance?

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The Future of Payment Transactions Has Only Winners and 6 Other Fallacies

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Inspired by Margaret Hamilton: The Importance of Female References

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True Transformers: On the Future of Financial Services as "Enablers" in the 21st Century

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Continuous Learning - Why SIX is Increasingly Focusing on the Development of Its Employees

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Trading InfoSnack: This Time Is Different

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Capital Creation Reimagined

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Card Fraud Made Difficult

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5 Reasons Why Financial Market Infrastructure Is in the Spotlight

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ESG Bonds Boom

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Inspired by John Law: The End of Banking

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Traders Learning the Ropes

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Where Biotech Shines

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SMEs: Small, Medium, and Extraordinary

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Staying Fixed in Times of VUCA

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EU Strategy for Retail Payments

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What the Future of Retailing Has “in Store”

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Inspired by Albert Einstein: The Need for Trust

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2021 Is the Year of eBill for Companies

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Taxes, Oh Deer!

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Insights on the Dynamics Shaping the Structured Products Universe

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What Does Blockchain Mean for Central Banks?

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The Shopping Experience of Tomorrow

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Trading InfoSnack: Cryptophoria

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Ringing the Bell for Gender Equality

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Spanish Stock Markets Close Year Marked by COVID-19 with Optimism

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Inspired by Margarete Steiff: The Will to Make It Happen

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ESG Indices Close the Sustainability Gap

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Competition in Equity Trading: Here We Go (Again)!

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Welcome to the Guided Tour of the Madrid Stock Exchange

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Inspired by Jeff Bezos: The Power of Risk

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Big is Good, Growth is Better

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Digital Assets on the Road to Institutionalisation

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Inspired by Johan Cruyff: The Way to Play

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Become a Master in Derivatives – Online

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Consumer Spending Behavior in Real Time

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Cash Supply Rethought

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Will Robots Soon Be the Better Service Providers?

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“Investing in Gender Equality Is Key For Sustainable Development.”

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Liquidity: Repo Market in Focus

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The Freedom of Paying with Cash

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Great Interest in Implementing OpenWealth API

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How Employees Strengthen Trust in the SIX Brand via Social Media

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Global Money Week: Financial Know How for Young People

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Finding a New Balance

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“Well-Managed Foreign and Trade Policies Are Crucial”

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Making Markets Transparent

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SIX Participates in Powercoders Program

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Wealth API – Swiss Financial Institutions at One Table

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Looking Ahead: the Future of Post-Trade

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Cash Beats the Odds on Coronavirus

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7 Steps toward Attracting More Female Talent at SIX

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What Makes Life Rich in Times of Crisis

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Swiss National Bank: High Bar for a Digital Currency

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Is Your Bank Ready for Open Banking?

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How SIX is Shaping the Future of Finance in APAC

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How Fast Is the Consumer Mood Going to Recover After Covid-19?

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4 Reasons Why QR Codes Are Currently Making a Comeback

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CSDR – Don’t Fail to Prepare or Prepare to Pay the Failure Penalty!

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Risk Indicators: Don’t Pay Twice for the Same Thing

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7 Statements on Open Banking – and Why They are Myths

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Sweat Equity: A Career in Sports as an Investment

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ESG Data for a Better View of the Big Picture

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IPO – The Birth of a Listed Company

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Solidarity Meets Innovation

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Data Is the Fuel of Financial Markets

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Why Lifelong Learning through Online Courses Makes Us Not Just More Successful, but also More Innovative

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Maintaining Open Markets in Times of Uncertainty

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Financial Data Should Have a Passport

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Dividend Season: Make the Payout Pay Off

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Home Office on Mars

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Rally to Global Money Week

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Upward Trend: Cyber Risks Associated With Partners and Suppliers

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Tokenization: Are Works of Art the New Stocks?

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International Women’s Day: Diversity Strengthens Our Innovative Capacity

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“Girls 4 IT” Day: Playfully Learning What IT Is

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Data is the Future and You Will Be Able to Generate, Control, and Monetize it

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Trader Survey 2020: Digital Assets on the Rise

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Under Pressure: The Future of Switzerland as a Trading Center

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How SIX Will Make the Transformation of the Financial Markets Happen

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MRBs: Budding Business, Regulatory Jungle

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The Instagram Advent Calendar of SIX Is Waiting in the Wings

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Will there Be Cash in the Future? 1 Scenario in 9 Scenes

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From Ideas to Practise: SIX Innovation Day

"Cybercrime Is the Greatest Danger Facing All Companies Worldwide"

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Open Banking Answers “Standard” Questions

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The Next Level of SIX

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Ecosystem: A Concept Is Taking Root

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Three Ways to Invest for the Future in Uncertain Times

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A Wind of Change Blows across Post-Trade

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SIX FinTech Ventures – A Brief Insight into Our Investment Strategy and Innovation Process

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Sail or Sink: Navigating Sanctions Risk in a Pre-trade Environment

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Booming Corporate Actions Volumes – Is There a Solution for the Back Office?

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EU Raises Regulatory Standards for CCPs

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3 Reasons Why You Should Be Concerned about FinSA – and 3 Others Why You Don’t Need to Lose Sleep over It

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Fragile Interoperability in Europe

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Transforming Markets, Driven by Demand

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The Public Face of Leadership after an IPO

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Big Data: Big Disillusion?

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"We Managed to Increase Block Liquidity."

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Improving Execution

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Our Young IT Talents Show What They’re Worth

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Diversity Helps Immensely

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Startup by SIX Is Automating Compliance

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Cause and Effect

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Dream Job Factory: How SIX Recruits Talents

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SIX FinTech Ventures – from Incubator to Business

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"We help to move the industry forward."

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Insights from the universe of structured products

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The Future of Clearing

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Panel Discussion for International Women’s Day

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Crypto Assets – Or How to Link the Old World with the New

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6 Swiss FinTech Influencers’ Predictions for 2019

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"Funds in Focus": Invest like Warren Buffet – Value Investing in 2019

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Minding the Gap

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3 Questions You Should Ask Yourself about Tax Data for Financial Instruments

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“We Need a Secure Swiss Cloud Fast”

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The Crystal Ball is Yesterday’s News – How SIX Researches the Future

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SIX Digital Exchange: The Securities Exchange of the Future

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How Intelligent is Artificial Intelligence?

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User Testing for the QR-Bill

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How SIX is Investing in Innovation

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Payments: Past, Present, and Prospective

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Security Analysts vs. Cybercriminals

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Hackathon: The Future Perspective

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Cyber Security – It's a Race for Time

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Four Questions about the Internet of Payments – and the Answers

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Phalanx – Marshalling Our Forces to Keep Your Data Secure

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No more Financial Crisis?

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Special Exhibition: 30 Years of the SMI – Why Equities Also Belong in Museums

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Green Bonds: Who Will Be the (Environmental) Champion?

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The PSD2 from a European Perspective

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The Internet of “Bring!”: Where does the Fridge Order Its Milk?

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Fiscal Matters Made Easy: SIX on Tax

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Capital Markets: Stock Exchanges vs. Crowdfunding & Co.

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Cyber security: Attackers Are the Best Form of Defense

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Artificial enthusiasm

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Three Ways out of the Minimal Viable Compliance Trap

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Four Swiss Economic Leaders Feature in Our Annual Report

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Terravis – a Building Block for Digitalizing Switzerland

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SIX Bees: A Look behind the Honeycombs

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SIX IdeaRace: Impressions From the Think Tank

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Switzerland’s First Augmented Reality Showroom

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Combating Cybercriminals With Cognitive Computing

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SIX Focuses Its Strategy and Simplifies Its Organizational Structure

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Jos Dijsselhof New CEO

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Programming Is Not Just a Man’s Game

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Five Reasons Why You Should Apply for the SIX Hackathon

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Self-regulation of the Swiss Exchange

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SIX Social Days

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When Speed is the Need: Cashless

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SIX Guidelines for Communicating in the Age of Cybercrime

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Sponsoring: Investment Cycle of a Different Kind

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Grasping Digitization