A Unique Market with Outstanding Liquidity
As a participant on the Swiss Stock Exchange, you gain access to over 46,000 securities, including some of Europe’s most important blue-chip stocks such as Nestlé, Roche and Novartis.
As the reference market for this unique universe of securities, the Swiss Stock Exchange offers you the best order-book quality for Swiss securities, even at the largest volumes. The average size of trades in SMI securities is more than twice that of alternative trading platforms. And there are many more good reasons to trade with us.
And, you can also rely on some of the world’s most advanced trading technology, innovative trading services as well as first-class services and expert support. Because on the Swiss Stock Exchange, the future of trading is now.
Joining the Exchange: Easy and Efficient
We want new participants to start trading as soon as possible, so we designed our onboarding process to ensure rapid access to the exchange. Admission can be completed in as little as four weeks. Our specialists are always available to guide you through the process from setting up your trading infrastructure to testing and go-live. They will also help you select the most appropriate connectivity option for your business, your trading strategies and your level of market activity. Support from our experts is available on your premises or through our helpdesk.
World-Class Trading Technology
The Swiss Stock Exchange runs X-stream INET, one of the world’s fastest and most advanced trading technologies. Offering an average latency of just 14 microseconds, efficient risk management, and outstanding capacity reserves, X-stream INET enables you to instantly implement your investment decisions.
Thanks to a wide range of interfaces and connectivity options to access the trading platform, both speed and capacity can be scaled to individual requirements.
The Benefits of a Direct Membership With the Swiss Stock Exchange
Three trading participants explain what they appreciate about the Swiss Stock Exchange and how this has manifested itself in the exceptional stock market year 2020. Representatives of St. Galler Kantonalbank, Privatbank IHAG and Liechtensteinische Landesbank praise the stability of the trading platform and the order book quality of the Swiss Stock Exchange during the Corona crisis, enumerate the various benefits of a direct membership and disclose which innovative services of SIX they appreciate the most.
Our Exceptional Securities Universe
On the Swiss Stock Exchange you get to trade across our exceptional range of attractive segments including: equities, bonds, Exchange Traded Funds, Sponsored Funds, Exchange Traded Products, traditional investment funds, and structured products.
Latest News
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ETF Market Report: 3rd Quarter 2021
The Swiss stock exchange, one of Europe’s top 3 ETF venues, publishes the latest figures about the growth of its segment.
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SwissAtMid: 5 Years and CHF 100 Million in Value for Clients. Where Liquidity Meets Efficiency.
Over the past five years, SwissAtMid has established itself as the main source of non-displayed and block liquidity in Swiss shares, delivering over CHF100 million in price improvement value to market participants .
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SIX Doubles Its Presence at the European SME Awards
This year's European SME Awards will feature a very exciting competition: two companies from SIX - one listed on BME Exchange and one at SIX Swiss Exchange - have been shortlisted for the Awards in the same category. The winner will be announced during the ceremony taking place on 16 November 2021 in Slovenia.
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Global Market Leader in High-Precision Delivery Devices medmix AG Becomes Third Company to List at SIX in 2021
Today, medmix AG (Ticker "MEDX") listed its shares on SIX Swiss Exchange. The opening price was CHF 45.00 per share, resulting in an implied market capitalization (i.e. existing and newly issued shares) of CHF 1,857 million.
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Back to Normal (Whatever That Means)
After a turbulent 18 months the International Structured Products Forum (ISPF) returns in full force: Last week, the 11th ISPF welcomed leading Swiss & EU representatives from across the structured products industry to Lucerne to outline the challenges for the future.
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360° Perspectives on Indexing & Theme Investments
This year’s ETP & Indexing Guide 2021/2022 features an in-depth analysis on ESG as well as innovations and trends in exchange-traded investment products – including articles as well as interviews with SIX Swiss Exchange and index representatives.
Resources
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Quality Begins with an Attractive Range of Services
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Membership Onboarding Process
Thanks to our highly efficient onboarding process, it is possible for institutions to start trading on SIX within just four weeks.
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Application Form for SIX Swiss Exchange AG Participation
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Request for Change of Trading Tariff
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Application Form for General Clearing Member
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Application Form for Market Maker and Liquidity Provider on Swiss Stock Exchange
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Application Form for Swiss EBBO Liquidity Provider
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Application Form for Reporting Members
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Application Form for Application Service Provider
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Application Form for Infrastructure Service Provider
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Application Form for Independent Software Vendor
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Resignation Form Independent Software Vendor
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Clearing & Settlement Standing Instructions (CSSI) - SIX x-clear AG
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Clearing & Settlement Standing Instructions (CSSI) - LCH
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Clearing and Settlement Standing Instructions (CSSI) - EuroCCP
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Registration as a Recognised Intermediary
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Suspension of a Non Clearing Member (NCM) by the General Clearing Member (GCM)
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Power of Attorney EuroCCP
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Power of Attorney LCH
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Application for Clearing Prevention
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FINMA Application for Authorisation as a Remote Member of SIX Swiss Exchange AG
For the use of the SWXess trading platform, various fees are charged to trading participants and reporting members.
For details on SIX fees, please refer to the following Lists of Charges:
SIX charges annual participation fees. For a direct access to the Exchange system, an additional access fee is charged.
SIX also charges a fee for all on-Exchange transactions and a reporting fee for the reception and processing of Trade Reports. The amount of the trading fee is calculated per transaction and participant and depends on the given participant's total trading turnover (money involved; ad valorem fee) and number of transactions.
For certain product segments, SIX makes available special trading capacity in the form of quotes per second (QPS), FIX transactions per second (FTPS) or OUCH transactions per second (OTPS). In return for payment of a monthly capacity fee, SIX can allocate additional trading capacity (QPS, FTPS or OTPS) for use by the participant.
Under certain circumstances, extraordinary fees, such as supervision and investigation fees, are payable.
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Trading Rules
SIX Swiss Exchange
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Reporting Office Rules
SIX Swiss Exchange
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Directive 1: Admission of participants
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Directive 2: Technical Connectivity
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Directive 4: Market Control
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Directive 5: Alternative Trading
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Directive 6: Market Information
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Directive 7: Sponsored Access
- Trading Guide (Full Version)
- Business Day Overview
- Market Model and Order Validity Overview
- Trading Services and Trading Interruptions
- Trading Period Overview
- Trading Period Overview Quote on Demand
- Product Guide Equity Market
- Product Guide Bond Market
- Product Guide - Fund Market and Other Financial Products
- Product Guide - Structured Products Market
- Product Guide – Trading without pre-trade transparency in SwissAtMid
- Product Guide – Sponsored Access
- Product Guide – Hybrid Trading in Swiss EBBO
- Product Guide – Trading with Quote Requests in Quote on Demand
- Price Step Overview (Tick Sizes) – Equity Market
- Price Step Overview (Tick Sizes) – Fund, Bond, Structured Products and Other Financial Products
- Trade Types and Flags
- Deferred Publication Thresholds and Delays
- Emergency Deletions
- SWXess – On Order Book Functionality
- SWXess – Off Order Book Functionality
- Trading Calendar 2021
- Trading Calendar 2022
Rules and regulations, Directives and Guidelines that are no longer legally valid are available in the archive
of SER (SIX Exchange Regulation AG).