SIX is set up in a responsible and transparent way. The corporate governance rules cover all areas and set down how we are managed, organized and controlled.
Stable infrastructure and innovative financial technology: SIX can do both. We therewith drive the competitiveness of our customers in Swiss and international financial markets.
At SIX, we are convinced that the future of finance has already begun. Financial market players must act now. That’s why we continuously feel the pulse of the market and invest accordingly in employees and technology.
As a key player in the financial markets, SIX supports the sustainable and responsible development of the financial markets.
Enhancing Access to Reliable ESG Data
Precise and effective tools are required for companies to effectively build sustainability considerations into complex financial processes. At SIX, a key pillar of our Sustainability Strategy is our work to equip clients with a suite of reliable and high-quality products and services to invest sustainably and achieve their sustainability goals.
To address increasing demand for high-quality ESG data, SIX developed an ESG Data Hub to support customers as they factor ESG criteria into investment decisions, monitoring, and reporting.
SIX ESG Indices provide robust and independent benchmarks for the bond and equity markets and serve as reliable reference points for investors.
SIX offers a transparent and regulated trading platform for sustainable investment products. The wide range of options provided by our issuers enables retail and professional investors to enhance their portfolio diversification and implement their values, priorities, and sustainability goals into their investment strategy:
SIX offers access to structured products that incorporate sustainability considerations into their design or underlying assets and components.
Approximately 10% of the ETFs listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange take ESG considerations into account for their construction, and SIX provides an ETF Explorer for investors to precisely seek out the ETF that best suits them.
SIX has introduced flags to identify which bond investment opportunities align with certain sustainability considerations, including green, social, sustainability, and sustainability-linked bond flags.
Our fully digital billing solution in Switzerland helps reducing CO2 emissions by eliminating paper, printing and postal transport. Already trusted by over 3 million users and 95% of Swiss financial institutions, eBill is the mainstream alternative for climate-conscious billing.
With the energy-efficient ATM solution by SIX, devices automatically switch to power-saving mode during defined hours. Depending on the ATM model, this can reduce energy consumption by up to 95%, helping financial institutions lower their CO2 footprint.
SIX ensures quality and reliability in its ESG data products through a number of different processes. First, whenever SIX partners with an ESG data or solutions provider, we do significant due diligence to determine if it meets our quality standards. Second, since SIX acts as a multi-vendor single access point, we do extensive testing to ensure that data from multiple sources is consistent and comparable. Third, SIX is positioned at the interface of financial infrastructure and the economy and is therefore well versed in the practical challenges clients face in their financial processes. SIX uses this information to design robust and useful products that meet client needs.
SIX offers ESG Indices for the Spanish, Swiss and Nordic markets. For the ESG indices for Swiss bond and equity markets the components are selected from the Swiss Bond Index (SBI) and Swiss Performance Index (SPI), respectively while for the IBEX ESG they are selected from the IBEX35 and IBEX Medium Cap indices. SIX constructs these indices to measure the development of securities and markets under consideration of sustainability and ESG factors. SIX has developed the following products to reflect that:
Financial sustainability products help clients meet regulatory requirements in a number of ways. High-quality data allows clients to accurately disclose in accordance with regulatory frameworks and comply the regulatory frameworks that apply to them by leveraging the data to assess their own sustainability profile and the environmental, social, and governance attributes of themselves and their extended operations.
Yes, we encourage our clients to use our ESG data products and services and ESG Indices to align with their particular sustainability goals and priorities. For example, a financial institution can pick and choose ESG datasets from our offering according to their needs and access them all from one single source.
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