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Artificial Intelligence: Inspired by Mother Teresa – A Podcast on the Humanity in Data Science

11 Apr 2024 19 minutes

Julinda Gllavata, Head Data Analytics & Artifical Intelligence at SIX, emphasizes the importance of data quality for the success of artificial intelligence (AI) use cases. Find out in our podcast that despite all the technology, people are crucial and why Mother Teresa would have used AI too.

Financial Data

Switzerland’s Most Important Stock-Market Barometer: What Is the SMI?

25 Mar 2024 7 minutes

The SMI is the most prominent stock index in Switzerland and is a reflection of the country’s economy. But what else is the SMI important for, and how does it work? Read below what lies behind the SMI and what role it plays in the financial market.

Financial Market Infrastructure

SIX Annual Report 2023: Strong Operating Result and Capital Position Despite Value Adjustments

13 Mar 2024 4 minutes

The diversified business model of SIX again proved its value in this demanding environment. Read more about how the positive trend in the operational performance continues.

Financial Data

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

29 Feb 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.

Financial Market Infrastructure

USD, EUR, CHF & Co.: How Do International Currency Codes Actually Come Into Being?

22 Feb 2024 4 minutes

Clear identification of over 300 different currencies worldwide is crucial to the smooth functioning of financial transactions around the world, and this means that standardized currency codes are needed. Read in this article how they come into being and who determines them.

Financial Data

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

08 Feb 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.

Stock Exchanges

Market Abuse: Beware of These 6 Types of Scams

07 Dec 2023 6 minutes

An ancient Greek philosopher cornered the market for olive presses, and an officer proclaimed the alleged death of Napoleon: markets have been repeatedly manipulated throughout history. But what was long considered a trivial offense gets punished severely today. Read below what types of scams you should beware of in your business.

Financial Market Infrastructure

3 Expectations of the Financial Sector for the Future that Were Not to Be Expected

22 Nov 2023 5 minutes

The second edition of the annual Future of Finance study shows increasing optimism among executives in the global financial markets. Read how companies plan to capitalize on this sentiment, including the integration of data and analytics and artificial intelligence.

Financial Data

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

19 Oct 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.

Financial Data

What Is ESG? And Why Is Everybody Talking about Sustainability?

26 Jul 2023 4 minutes

The ESG theme has been booming in recent years. Companies must become more sustainable and more transparent. But what does ESG actually mean? Who determines how sustainable companies are? And why is a good ESG rating so important these days?

Financial Market Infrastructure

Confidence, Transparency, Complexity: This Is How the Buy-Side looks at Digital Assets and ESG Investing

04 Jul 2023 4 minutes

Digital assets have reached a pivotal point in their journey towards mainstream, widespread institutional adoption. The pace and scale at which integration of ESG considerations into investment strategies is now happening across the global investment space is unprecedented. Read on to learn how investment managers recognize the respective growth potential presented by both areas.

Financial Data

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

11 May 2023 4 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.

Stock Exchanges

Exchange-Traded Art: Can We All (Co-)Own a Picasso Now?

13 Apr 2023 4 minutes

For a minimum of 100 euro you’re in luck: the Liechtenstein-based ARTEX enables you to co-own works of art and to trade shares in them. Read below why not even blockchain technology is needed for this and why reliable traditional clearing and settlement mechanisms are used instead.

Financial Data

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

05 Apr 2023 4 minutes

Sustainable investment is the order of the day. Read on to find out what the most important sustainable investment strategies are, and how important transparency is for asset managers.

Financial Data

What Actually Is an ESG Index?

02 Feb 2023 5 minutes

Sustainability is becoming an increasingly important issue in the financial sector. Investing is no longer just about profitability, but also about an investment’s social and environmental impact. ESG indices can serve as a basis for sustainable investment products. Read below about what an ESG index is and how one comes into being.

Financial Data

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

19 Jan 2023 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.

Financial Market Infrastructure

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

10 Nov 2022 4 minutes

SIX asked executives from the financial industry about their assessment of future developments. Here you can read a selection of the results that were not necessarily expected.

Financial Data

IRS: The World’s Most International Government Agency

15 Jun 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.

Financial Data

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

17 May 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.

Company Growth

Startup Yokoy Leverages Artificial Intelligence to Manage Corporate Spend

10 May 2022 3 minutes

In the Elevator Pitch blog series, startup companies that are backed by SIX FinTech Ventures or which took part in the programs run by the F10 FinTech Incubator & Accelerator introduce themselves. Today you’ll get acquainted with Yokoy. CEO and co-founder Philippe Sahli explains how he and his team aim to revolutionize corporate spend management.

Financial Data

Data Facilitates Markets

27 Apr 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.

Stock Exchanges

How Do Stock Exchange Quotes Get on Television?

17 Mar 2022 5 minutes

Every weekday, just before the evening news, Swiss Television presents the latest stock market prices on its financial news show SRF Börse. Where do the quotes actually come from? And how do they get on TV?

Stock Exchanges

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

16 Feb 2022 20 minutes

Sabine Döbeli, CEO Swiss Sustainable Finance, remembers a time when sustainable financial markets were still a niche topic. Find out why Costa Rican diplomat Christiana Figueres was already an inspiration back then and where the Swiss financial center stands today.

Financial Data

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

09 Feb 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.

Payment Transactions

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

18 Jan 2022 6 minutes

The initial obligation to open banking has now turned into a dynamic international competition. Sven Siat, Head Connectivity in the business unit Banking Services of SIX, explains why reluctance will not pay off also for the Swiss banks: Those who do not provide up-to-date programming interfaces in the future will not have a lasting business model in the long run.

Financial Data

Inspired by Thomas Tuchel: The Passion for Detail

01 Sep 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.

Financial Data

The Future of Data – Is Data Management Sexy Now?

20 Jul 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?

Payment Transactions

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

02 Jul 2021 3 minutes

With OpenWealth, the Swiss wealth management industry has agreed – without being forced by the regulator – on a standard for application programming interfaces, the APIs. For implementation, the newly founded OpenWealth Association relies on the open finance platform bLink from SIX.

Financial Data

The Future of Sustainable Finance

25 Jun 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.

People & Culture

Inspired by Margaret Hamilton: The Importance of Female References

03 Jun 2021 18 minutes

At BME Inntech, Berta Ares and her team work on technological innovations for the financial markets. Margaret Hamilton is a daily inspiration for her. In our podcast, she tells us among other things how the pioneer of software engineering enabled Neil Armstrong to set foot on the moon.

Financial Data

Taxes, Oh Deer!

23 Mar 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.

Financial Data

Inspired by Jeff Bezos: The Power of Risk

20 Jan 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.

Payment Transactions

Great Interest in Implementing OpenWealth API

06 Nov 2020 4 minutes

The participants of the Wealth API Roundtable at the end of October agreed: there needs to be a standardized asset management interface for the Swiss financial center. The first financial institutions are likely to implement the API standard of the OpenWealth initiative as early as next year. There are various questions that need to be clarified before then, including how to securely operationalize and efficiently scale the OpenWealth API.

Payment Transactions

Wealth API – Swiss Financial Institutions at One Table

14 Oct 2020 3 minutes

Summer holidays have passed, and the Swiss open banking has had a dynamic start into the second half of the year. Particular attention was paid by the media to the definition of an API standard within wealth management at the end of September. Now it’s time to put theory into practice. Therefore, SFTI, OpenWealth (orchestrated by Synpulse) and b.Link of SIX are jointly initiating a roundtable for Swiss financial institutions.

Financial Data

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

09 Jun 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.

Financial Data

ESG Data for a Better View of the Big Picture

20 May 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.

Financial Data

Marion Leslie

Data Is the Fuel of Financial Markets

08 May 2020 5 minutes

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.

Financial Data

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

19 Jul 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.

Financial Data

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

10 Jul 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.

Financial Data

Big Data: Big Disillusion?

03 May 2019 6 minutes

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

Financial Data

Fiscal Matters Made Easy: SIX on Tax

22 May 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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Artificial Intelligence: Inspired by Mother Teresa – A Podcast on the Humanity in Data Science

Switzerland’s Most Important Stock-Market Barometer: What Is the SMI?

SIX Annual Report 2023: Strong Operating Result and Capital Position Despite Value Adjustments

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

USD, EUR, CHF & Co.: How Do International Currency Codes Actually Come Into Being?

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

Market Abuse: Beware of These 6 Types of Scams

3 Expectations of the Financial Sector for the Future that Were Not to Be Expected

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

What Is ESG? And Why Is Everybody Talking about Sustainability?

Confidence, Transparency, Complexity: This Is How the Buy-Side looks at Digital Assets and ESG Investing

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

Exchange-Traded Art: Can We All (Co-)Own a Picasso Now?

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

What Actually Is an ESG Index?

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

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

IRS: The World’s Most International Government Agency

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

Startup Yokoy Leverages Artificial Intelligence to Manage Corporate Spend

Data Facilitates Markets

How Do Stock Exchange Quotes Get on Television?

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

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

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

Inspired by Thomas Tuchel: The Passion for Detail

The Future of Data – Is Data Management Sexy Now?

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

The Future of Sustainable Finance

Inspired by Margaret Hamilton: The Importance of Female References

Taxes, Oh Deer!

Inspired by Jeff Bezos: The Power of Risk

Great Interest in Implementing OpenWealth API

Wealth API – Swiss Financial Institutions at One Table

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

ESG Data for a Better View of the Big Picture

Data Is the Fuel of Financial Markets

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

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

Big Data: Big Disillusion?

Fiscal Matters Made Easy: SIX on Tax

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