SIX FinTech Ventures

Profile

Technology for the financial center – efficient, secure, stable. We ensure the flow of information and money between banks, merchants, investors and service providers worldwide.

Our Corporate Responsibility
"We enable a sustainable future" - in the spirit of this mission statement SIX takes responsibility for a stable and future-proof financial center's infrastructure, for its employees, and for the communities and the environment in which it operates.

Corporate responsibility is part of our mandate and corporate culture, and therefore firmly anchored in the processes at SIX. A lean organization and clearly defined responsibilities make an essential contribution to enabling us to live out our principles in our day-to-day work. Corporate Communications serves as coordinator and initiator for our corporate responsibility management working closely together with all business units.

SIX is a member of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI community) since 2013 and reports according to the GRI standards. We engage in regular dialog with our stakeholders in order to incorporate their knowledge, expectations, and opinions into our material topics. As a host of events or through our involvement in initiatives, we are committed to a dialogue with the financial industry and the society as a whole to further drive a responsible and sustainable economic development.

SIX operates the infrastructure for the financial centers in Switzerland and Spain, thus ensuring the flow of information and money between financial market players. SIX offers exchange services, financial information and banking services with the aim of increasing efficiency, quality and innovative capacity along the entire value chain. SIX is also building a digital infrastructure for the new millennium.

SIX connects financial market participants in Switzerland, Spain and throughout the world. The company is owned by around 120 national and international financial institutions. They are the main users of our services and our most important customers. Our close relationship with them guarantees stability of the financial infrastructure and processes, proximity to clients’ evolving business needs and competitive prices.

New technologies, big data, disruptive business models − digitization transforms the financial markets of the world. The global financial industry is changing. In such a highly dynamic environment, it is crucial to actively strengthen the competitiveness of our customers operating within its framework.

SIX pursues a growth strategy in line with the entire value chain of banking. In doing so, SIX focuses on infrastructure services in securities business, preparing and providing data and financial information as well as banking and payment services.