SIX Digital Exchange gets regulatory approval from FINMA!
Today, SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) formally received the FINMA go-ahead to operate a stock exchange and a central securities depository for digital assets in Switzerland.
#sixnews
#sdx
#tfofin
Data is considered the world’s most valuable resource. How will data change investment behaviors? Who owns the data? The SIX white paper on «Data, the Future of Financial Information» provides guidance on these questions. Download it now!
#SIXresearch
SIX,
@SNB_BNS
and six commercial banks, will collaborate to pilot the first wholesale central bank digital currency in Switzerland.
@SDX_global
will host the pilot on its digital asset platform. Learn more:
#TheFutureofFinanceIsNow
#wCBDC
#Harmonization
,
#interoperability
,
#regulation
and
#volatility
are some of the topics discussed now at The Network Forum on the “Clearing 2021” panel. Brendon Bambury, Head International Client Relations & Sales, SIX underlined how important interoperability is for the industry.
We think seriously about the future, so that we can anticipate what lies ahead. And we are not afraid to ask controversial questions, such as "Will there be a stock exchange in the future?" Click here for the answer:
#SIXresearch
Today we announced we are making an all-cash voluntary tender offer for Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (“BME”), operator of the Spanish stock exchange to create a Top-3 European financial markets infrastructure group. You can read more about our offer here:
We are making an all-cash voluntary tender offer for Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (“BME”) to create a Top-3 European financial markets infrastructure group. Read more here:
@adam3us
@OscarWGrut
@UrsBolt
@lucas_lclc
@businessinsider
First we will enable the tokenization of bankable assets like stocks or bonds and, potentially, at a later stage non-bankable assets. Whether we will also make crypto currencies such as Bitcoin or existing "ICO tokens" available, is still open.
@TonyVal76476318
The Amun Ripple XRP ETP is live as of today and already the third ETP based on a single crypto currency underlying. In February and March ETPs were launched on Bitcoin and Ethereum
SIX has just published its global
#FutureofFinance
study. The study provides deep insights into the minds of financial industry executives around the world regarding growth, sustainability, future skills, and technology.
▶️Read the study here:
#TFOFIN
SIX and the Swiss National Bank Explore Technological Approaches for the Use of Digital Central Bank Money in the Settlement of Tokenized Assets
#sixnews
#sdx
Many banks have been waiting for it, and now the time has come: With bexio, one of the leading Swiss providers of business software is joining the bLink open finance platform of SIX. SwissSalary, Counteo and LIMMOBI are also joining the platform.
#sixnews
The QR-bill is set to be launched in Switzerland on 30 June 2020. This will make
#payment
easier, faster and more efficient. The new
#QRbill
will gradually replace the current payment slips:
#QRrechnung
#SIXnews
We are looking forward to the upcoming
#Eurofi
event in Paris. Jos Dijsselhof, CEO SIX, will attend a session on decentralized finance (
#DeFi
) and share his insights on expected benefits, the impact on financial stability and current regulatory issues.
#TheFutureofFinanceIsNow
One year ago SIX launched a private Bug Bounty Program with
@Hacker0x01
, now we are opening it to the public.
Read our portrait of Alexander Hagenah, Head Cyber Controls at SIX, to find out what a Bug Bounty Program is & why we want to work with hackers:
Fresh from the editing room: The new SIX corporate movie. Watch the film on our website, which we partially relaunched today. Click in for a closer look:
#discoverSIX
#WeAreSIX
Swiss banks will soon be able to offer their clients
#instantpayments
around the clock. Read in our latest blog post how the Swiss financial center is shaping this innovation and what Hypothekarbank Lenzburg CEO Marianne Wildi thinks about it?
#TFoFIN
SIX has successfully completed its all-cash voluntary tender offer for
@GrupoBME
, the Spanish Stock Exchange, securing an acceptance level of 93.16% of BME’s share capital. Find out more:
The Bank for International Settlements’ Innovation Hub (BISIH), the Swiss National Bank (SNB) and SIX today announced the successful completion of a joint poc-experiment that integrates tokenised digital assets and central bank money.
#sixnews
Today we start our internal SIX Diversity Week with the aim to raise awareness and to drive engagement around the topic of
#Diversity
&
#Inclusion
among our employees, because we are convinced that diversity is a key lever for our future success. Stay tuned!
#IWD2021
SIX brings global tech incubator and accelerator F10 to Spain with locations planned in the two cities of Madrid and Barcelona and activities in Bilbao and Valencia.
#sixnews
@F10_accelerator
SIX is heavily invested in the future and is not afraid to ask the most controversial questions, like in our latest white paper on the future of the stock exchange. You can find the white paper here:
#SIXresearch
Congratulations to
@marion__leslie
for being named by
@FinancialNews
one of the 100 Most Influential Women in European Finance 2020. We are proud to have you at SIX to transform the financial markets!
IFR Awards 2021 🏅 ➜ We continue to make history. Six receives the 'Swiss Franc Bond of the Year 2021' award for its development of the world's first fully digital regulated bonds.
Thanks
#IFR
for this award and congratulations to all our colleagues at SIX and
@SDX_global
🏆
"Interdisciplinarity helps to shed diffidence toward technology", says
@PhilomenaSchwab
. She works as a game designer at the interface between art and technology and has created a successful niche for her
@NicheGame
SIX FinTech Ventures, the CHF 50 million corporate venture fund of SIX, has invested in its first two early stage startups, both of which aim to revolutionize the Swiss Financial Center:
#SIXnews
Israeli
#cybersecurity
expert
@k3r3n3
recommends that all enterprises enlist the services of hackers. She knows what she’s talking about – she was once a
#hacker
herself.
Tomorrow we will publish a new
#whitepaper
on the future of
#money
. Read here why SIX is doing pictures of the future and developing different scenarios: .
And find out more about the future of cash tomorrow!
#SIXresearch
We’re thrilled to announce that SIX Digital Exchange was awarded "Best Innovation in Market Infrastructure’" at the
@globalcustodian
Leaders in Custody Awards. Thanks for all your support!
In our new event series
#GenieInTheBottle
,
#SIXinnovation
puts wits and wine together. Tonight Dr Jonathan Home from the Quantum Electronics Institute at ETH Zurich talked about the computational power of atoms and what this could mean for the future of finance
Real estate company EPIC Suisse ("EPIC") goes public on SIX Swiss Exchange. This adds another market leader in its field to the exchange. The opening price was CHF 68.00, resulting in a market capitalization of CHF 693 million.
#sixnews
#tfofin
#ipo
SIX and
@LendityCH
hosted the second edition of the Swiss
#AlternativeLendingConference
on May 9th in Zurich. More than 200 attendees participated of the event, where key opinion leaders shared insights about the Alternative Lending industry. Impressions:
As one of the sponsors we are very proud that the
@swissloop
pod reached 2nd place in the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition yesterday with a top speed of 252 km/h. Congratulations to the whole team for this great success!
#swissloop
#hyperlooppodcompetition
.
@ASNXT_official
has successfully launched crypto derivates trading today. AsiaNext is a digital asset trading venue for institutional investors, founded by SIX and SBI Digital Asset Holdings.
Read more:
We proudly announce the launch of the
@FinTechGames
- the olympics of the financial industry! Create
#fintech
innovations and fine-tune your entrepreneurial skills by joining one of the challenges:
SIX is developing a fully integrated trading, settlement, and custody platform for
#digitalassets
. Thomas Zeeb, Head Securities & Exchanges at SIX, explains how SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) is building a bridge between existing and new
#infrastructure
:
Approval of the relevant authorities for
#Sparks
, the
#SwissStockExchange
’s new equity segment dedicated to Small & Medium Enterprises
#SMEs
, has been obtained. Preparations for the launch of the platform are now under way:
How will we pay for our shopping in the future? Will there still be
#cash
? And
#banks
? And central banks? In the white paper “Future of
#Money
” we try to answer these questions:
We are making a big investment in
@SDX_global
, because we think we can transform the markets and make them more efficient,” says Jos Dijsselhof, the CEO of SIX. Watch the video with
@finance_swiss
here:
.
@marion__leslie
has headed the Financial Information business unit at SIX since the start of 2020. In our interview she talks about how the
#data
business has changed during her career, what the future holds, and what opportunities this presents for SIX:
Kryptowährungen – Top oder Flop? Rino Borini wird die Podiumsdiskussion am
#ETPD
mit Isabella Brom, Jan Brzezek, Johannes Gugl, Dr. Adriano B. Lucatelli und Arnaud Masset moderieren. 24. Mai, SIX ConventionPoint Zürich. Jetzt anmelden: