SIX Financial Information
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| Industry | Financial services |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1930 (as Ticker AG) |
| Headquarters | Zurich, Switzerland |
Key people |
Robert Jeanbart (CEO) Alexandre Zeller (Chairman of the Board of Directors) |
| Services | Financial data |
| Revenue | CHF 415,836,000 (2009)[1] |
| Owner | SIX Group |
Number of employees | 1,166 |
| Website | www.six-financial-information.com |
SIX Financial Information , a subsidiary of SIX Group, is a multinational financial data vendor headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. SIX Financial Information gathers information from all the world's major trading venues directly and in real-time. Its database has structured and encoded securities administration data for more than 15.6 million financial instruments.[2] the firm has offices in 23 countries.
History
In 1930, Ticker AG was founded in Zurich, Switzerland by a group of Swiss banks. In 1961 it launched the first stock market television service in Switzerland, and was renamed Telekurs Financial. In 1975, Telekurs launched Investdata, the first financial information display in Switzerland.
Telekurs began to expand outside of Switzerland in 1990. In 1996 the firm was restructured into a holding company, and launched a major expansion of its product range.
In 2007 Telekurs acquired part of the Fininfo Group.
In 2008 The Telekurs Group merged with SWX and SEGA Intersettle to form SIX Group. Telekurs Financial was renamed to SIX Telekurs and became the Financial Information division of SIX Group.
On April 23, 2012, the "Telekurs" name was discontinued and the company is now known as SIX Financial Information.[3]
Locations
The head office of SIX Financial Information is in Zurich, Switzerland.[4]
SIX Financial Information has 32 offices in 23 different countries: Amsterdam, Basel, Bienne, Boston, Brussels, Casablanca, Copenhagen, Dublin, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Geneva, Göteborg, Helsinki, Hong Kong, London, Lugano, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Monaco, Nanterre, New York, Oslo, Paris, San Francisco, Singapore, Stamford (USA), Stockholm, Tokyo, Toronto, Vienna, Warsaw.
Products and services
The SIX Financial Information products flow from the same single logical database, and are divided into four categories:
Reference data and pricing
SIX Financial Information's main product, the Valordata Feed (VDF), is a source for reference and descriptive data plus corporate actions. Based on a unique data model, VDF holds information on approximately 15.6 million financial instruments, drawing on over 850 trading venues and contributors. For calculated and evaluated prices, SIX Financial Information offers a number of specific products within this category.
Market data
SIX Financial Information's market data products are real-time or delayed. The master database allows customers to link nearly 1,500 individual data elements across millions of active financial instruments, for a clear view of investment positions. Services range from valuation pricing and real-time market data feeds to streamlined back-office Products and all are used for improved straight-through processing.
Display products
The SIX Financial Information display products provide access to the company's full range of data. These products offer access to quotes, lists, charts, news, corporate fundamental data. SIX Financial Information also bundles its display products with fee-liable data such as news, company fundamentals and ratings.
Customisation
SIX Financial Information also provides tailor-made as well as ready-made solutions. The ready-made solutions including a realtime index /indicative NAV calculator, on-line brokerage systems, and even white labeled Websites.
Compliance and standards
SIX Financial Information actively participates with global standards organizations to define and adopt relevant standards that promote straight-through processing. Specifically, SIX Financial Information is the official national numbering agency (NNA) in Switzerland Liechtenstein and Belgium, and in this capacity is responsible for the issuing of Valoren and ISIN identifiers. The company is also a founding member of ANNA, as well as a co-operator of the ANNA Service Bureau,.[5] In addition, SIX Financial Information is a member of The International Organization for Standardization (ISO), FISD, and Markets in Financial Instruments Directive joint working groups, and is a SWIFT certified distributor of ISO 15022 corporate actions messages.
For regulatory compliance, SIX Financial Information provides information that help analyze exposures and aggregate positions for effective reporting. SIX Financial Information has incorporated flags, markers and classifications into VDF that facilitate compliance with taxation regulations such as the EU savings tax, Swiss transaction taxes and US IRS Withholding, plus fee calculation regulations such as the SEC rule 22c-2, and pan-European regulations as Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and UCITS III and IV.