The Swiss Stock Exchange

At the 2021 Financial News Trading & Tech awards, SIX Swiss Exchange won “Exchange Group of the Year” – an extraordinary achievement resulting from an extraordinary performance in an extraordinary year. All of us at the Swiss stock exchange are grateful to the panel of judges and clients for honoring us in this way.

As a leading listing and trading destination, SIX Swiss Exchange has enjoyed enormous success over the past 18 months. And, in what has become a true testament to the resilience and robust infrastructure of the Swiss stock exchange, it was able to handle record trading volumes without disruption.  

United under one roof with the Spanish bourse BME Group – following a landmark deal by SIX in 2020 – and with the SIX Digital Exchange (SDX), the world's first regulated digital market infrastructure, the Swiss stock exchange is proud to be a crucial part of Europe’s third largest exchange operator by revenue.

SIX Swiss Exchange has launched its new equity segment dedicated to Small & Medium Enterprises. Listed SMEs will benefit from having greater flexibility in optimizing their ownership structure, broadening their financing options and gaining access to a broad investor base to raise equity-capital efficiently. Investors stand to benefit from the new Sparks trading model which supports effective price formation and best-execution in equity securities.

The solution to be provided by SIX Digital Exchange and Custodigit, the Institutional Digital Asset Gateway, will support the digital asset value chain for banks end-to-end: from trading, smart order routing, settlement, storage/custody to secondary markets.

Capital markets and infrastructures have been under pressure for some time now to transform their business models and embrace new technologies. 2020 demonstrated how the financial industry is able to react quickly to changing environments and the same needs to happen now with regards to the fast-changing technology dynamics that are reshaping capital markets.

The Swiss Stock Exchange is committed to innovation and is pioneering some of the biggest digital initiatives in capital markets. This is why we constantly challenge ourselves. Constantly question ourselves: What will financial marketplaces look like in the future? What role will Switzerland play in them? What future scenarios are possible?

Together with W.I.R.E. – a think tank associated with Zurich’s ETH university – the Swiss Stock Exchange has developed potential theses, scenarios and action areas for Switzerland’s future financial marketplace. The key findings have been published in a book – “True Transformers.” – which is now available for sale (in German only).