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AI in Trade Surveillance: Why Context Matters More Than Alert Volume

Oct 22, 2026 8 minutes

Co-authored By Francisco Merlos Fernandez, Head RegTech Solutions, SIX

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is helping trade surveillance teams move beyond simply detecting threshold breaches. By bringing together transactional, historical, and market context, AI can help analysts prioritize cases, understand why behavior may be suspicious, and prepare better-documented investigations. This concentrates human judgment where it matters most rather than making it obsolete, increasing the importance of appropriate governance and oversight.

Single-Stock Indices: How a Single Share Becomes an Index

Oct 15, 2026 3 minutes

Co-authored By Christian Bahr, Head Index Services & ESG, SIX

Single-stock indices transparently track the performance of a single share according to clearly defined rules. This blog explains how they serve as a precise underlying for structured products and equity-based investment strategies.

APIs in Financial Services: 6 Myths That Hold Back Data Innovation

Oct 9, 2026 6 minutes

By Laurent Lefèvre

APIs help financial institutions make trusted data available on demand, embed it directly into business workflows, and automate data consumption more efficiently. Their value goes beyond limited to technical integration or real-time data. Read how, increasingly, APIs are connecting financial applications, cloud platforms, and AI assistants.

When Sanctions Become a Market Risk: Insights from ACI Sanctions Conference

Jun 4, 2026 7 minutes

By Oliver Bodmer

What does it mean for capital markets when sanctions are increasingly perceived as a market risk? Sanctions affect not only individual stakeholders, but also market processes, portfolios, and financial market infrastructures.

Sanction Risks in ETFs and Funds: Why Compliance Has to Look Deeper

Dec 9, 2025 8 minutes

Co-authored by Oliver Bodmer

Today, economic sanctions are as dynamic as the markets themselves. When it comes to ETFs and mutual funds, compliance with these sanctions requires taking both a global and a granular view. That’s because risk positions are often hidden within complex structures. In this blog article, discover more about the challenges that result in this regard.

Market Data in Flux: Determining Factors

Oct 23, 2025 5 minutes

The buy-side expects to use market data ever more widely, intensively, and strategically, not just in the front office, but also increasingly in the middle office. A study by Coalition Greenwich and SIX shows how real-time data, artificial intelligence, and a hybrid infrastructure are shaping the evolving market data landscape.

5 Big Burdens in Dealing with Tax Regulations and How Financial Institutions Can Ease Them

Aug 28, 2025 5 Minutes

Taxation rules and regulations are constantly evolving and creating new reporting standards, necessitating greater resources and threatening the unwary with substantial fines and reputational damage. Get an overview below of the biggest challenges, and read what you need to overcome them.

The Role of Standards in the Global Financial Markets

Aug 27, 2025 5 minutes

Every trade conducted on the global financial markets is based on one precise and reliable foundation: standardized financial identifiers. In this blog article, you’ll discover how these identifiers improve efficiency, transparency, and security.

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

Aug 20, 2025 3 minutes

Economic sanctions are being imposed ever more frequently. This also has impacts on the capital market. Read below how financial institutions succeed in keeping track of the sanctions landscape and avoiding fines and reputation damage.

Identify Relevant Data Faster with Data Mining

Jun 26, 2025 3 minutes

In an age of exponentially growing data volumes, analysis methods are more critical than ever. Data mining allows organizations to extract valuable insights from large, often unstructured, datasets. This blog reveals how this technique brings added value to the financial sector when it comes to key financial data.

Embracing Artificial Intelligence with Confidence: A Balanced Approach for Businesses

May 30, 2025 4 minutes

Marion Leslie

The rapid rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has sparked both excitement and concern, leaving businesses wondering how to move forward. Marion Leslie, Head Financial Information at SIX, shares how companies can embrace AI with conscious confidence. Curious how to chart this path? Read on.

Fixing Fixed Income Management with Comprehensive High-Quality Data

Mar 31, 2025 4 minutes

Bond prices can fluctuate dramatically from one day to the next in turbulent markets. Monitoring any market events or corporate actions, such as default, early redemptions or credit events, is crucial. Read in this blog post on why choosing a fixed income data provider with near universal coverage and hallmarks of superior quality and high accuracy is paramount.

How Funds Can Become a Capital-Efficient Alternative as Collateral

Mar 27, 2025 5 minutes

Regulations such as the final version of Basel III/IV tighten the risk weighting of counterparty exposures and increase minimum capital requirements. Read why financial institutions should accept funds as collateral to counter this and how they can overcome the associated data challenges.

Import and Export Restrictions: A New Consideration for Compliance and Risk Assessments

Oct 10, 2024 3 minutes

The gaze of compliance and risk professionals is broadening beyond current financial sanctions. Learn why securities linked to entities that are blacklisted or red-flagged for import and export present new risks to financial institutions.

Market Data: Market Participants Forecast Spending Growth and Report Increased Confidence in Cloud and Artificial Intelligence

Oct 3, 2024 3 minutes

High-quality market data must be accurate, timely, and reliable. There’s nothing new about that. However, if you ask the industry, you will learn that it does not expect everything to stay the same. Read in this year’s study by Coalition Greenwich and SIX how artificial intelligence and other technologies are changing the way people acquire and use market data.

Measuring Markets Worldwide with Indices: How Financial Institutions Can Literally Open Up the Whole World of Investing to Their Customers

Jun 27, 2024 5 minutes

Financial institutions fight for market share among investors. Read on to discover what role high-quality data plays in this, and how it can be obtained as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible.

5 Reasons Why You Need Climate Data – Regulation Is Just One of Them

Feb 29, 2024 4 minutes

Under the Paris Agreement, normative frameworks are turning into binding regulations. In order to comply with them, the financial industry needs to be able to count on a reliable underlying data basis. But that’s not all. Read in this article where portfolio and asset managers are likewise reliant on trustworthy and consistent climate data.

4 Reasons Why Artificial Intelligence Hasn’t Revolutionized Post-Trading Yet, but Maybe Will Someday

Feb 8, 2024 4 minutes

Post-trading is a volume business and a data business, so calls for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in post-trading operations haven’t been long in coming. Read below exactly why this makes it important to take one step at a time when it comes to identifying potential AI use cases.

“Quality over Cost” and 2 More Facts on Using Market Data

Oct 19, 2023 4 minutes

Global buy-side and sell-side market participants agree that data accuracy and data feed reliability are the most important drivers when choosing market data providers. Read about these and other key findings revealed in new research by Coalition Greenwich together with SIX.

Sustainable Investment Strategies and a New Type of Responsibility for Asset Managers

Apr 5, 2023 4 minutes

Sustainable investment is the order of the day. Read on to learn about the key sustainable investment strategies. Also, discover why transparency matters for asset managers.

IRS: The World’s Most International Government Agency

Jun 15, 2022 5 minutes

The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) played a prominent role in a Hollywood film, got a mob boss arrested and convicted, and also collects taxes from non-US citizens living abroad. Find out how the IRS became famous the world over.

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

May 17, 2022 3 minutes

The EU Taxonomy and SFDR are the single-largest pieces of ESG-related legislation introduced anywhere in the world, and their compliance requirements are equally daunting. Find out what financial institutions now need to know and who can help.

Data Facilitates Markets

Apr 27, 2022 3 minutes

Financial information is an ever-growing mainstay in the diversified business portfolio of SIX. But the importance of data goes beyond just being a source of income: Data links different businesses and even industries together. Read how data creates transparency, makes processes more efficient, and enables growth.

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

Feb 9, 2022 4 minutes

Like other business areas within the Swiss financial center, wealth management is facing major challenges. What adjustments to the business model are necessary? Find out which competencies will be helpful in connection with data and technology.

LIBOR and SARON: What Is the Difference?

Jan 6, 2022 4 minutes

Christian Bahr

The controversial LIBOR standard for reference interest rates has no longer been supported since 2022. SARON, which is calculated by SIX, has provided an alternative for the Swiss franc market since as far back as 2009. What are the advantages of SARON over LIBOR? Christian Bahr, Head Index Services at SIX, explains it in this blogpost.

Inspired by Thomas Tuchel: The Passion for Detail

Sep 1, 2021 19 minutes

It is impossible to imagine modern football without numbers, statistics and systems. Christian Bahr, Head of Index Services at SIX, is all the more familiar with them. In our podcast, he tells us what other similarities he has discovered with football coach Thomas Tuchel.

The Future of Data – Is Data Management Sexy Now?

Jul 20, 2021 4 minutes

I was once asked at a conference “Is data management sexy now?” AI is sexy. Analytics too. Insights generated from analytics really turn heads. But the key to all this is still the fundamentals of data management and quality. Not so sexy, sadly. Where are we going with data, and how will we get there?

The Future of Sustainable Finance

Jun 25, 2021 4 minutes

Sustainable finance is the practice of taking environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations into account when making investment decisions, leading to more sustainable economic activities and projects. Today investment funds that use ESG have more than $50 trillion in capital and are growing fast. Indeed, it may be this tsunami of ESG capital investment that will produce the sort of “stakeholder capitalism” envisioned by the World Economic Forum and the OECD as being the future of trade and investment.

Taxes, Oh Deer!

Mar 23, 2021 4 minutes

Swiss citizens must file their annual tax returns by the end of March each year. A light-hearted look at the past, around the world and into the woods just might make this compulsory annual task a bit more bearable.

Inspired by Jeff Bezos: The Power of Risk

Jan 20, 2021 24 minutes

Sam Sundera, Head Future Business in the Financial Information business unit of SIX, explains in our podcast how Jeff Bezos inspired him and where SIX can learn from Amazon’s business model.

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

Jun 9, 2020 2 minutes

The Product Risk Indicator from SIX closes a gap in the risk rating of certain asset classes. With this easy-to-understand method, banks receive exactly the data they need, no more and no less.

ESG Data for a Better View of the Big Picture

May 20, 2020 6 minutes

Alternative data enables investors to value companies also on the basis of non-financial aspects. ESG data, for example, makes it easier to invest in accordance with sustainability criteria – a hot trend at the moment.

Data Is the Fuel of Financial Markets

May 8, 2020 5 minutes

Marion Leslie

Marion Leslie has headed the Financial Information business unit at SIX since the start of 2020. In this interview, she talks about how the data business has changed during her career, what the future holds, and what opportunities this presents for SIX.

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

Jul 19, 2019 3 minutes

While investing, the environment is getting more and more complex. Taking care of market, credit and change risks is not enough to transact safely; you also need to know if you are investing in sanctions-tainted assets and if those in your portfolio are still okay.

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

Jul 10, 2019 3 minutes

Automation allows cost reductions, but above all a focusing of available specialists on the really important tasks. SIX offers such a solution focused on automation of Corporate Actions.

Big Data: Big Disillusion?

May 3, 2019 6 minutes

Hyped, condemned, reprieved. On the tumultuous history of big data and four misconceptions about it.

Fiscal Matters Made Easy: SIX on Tax

May 22, 2018 6 minutes

High-quality financial information is the very foundation of what enables banks to comply with increasingly complex and ever-changing tax regulations. SIX supplies this data reliably and even goes beyond that by providing supplemental advanced services concerning tax matters.

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