Tag: SIX Swiss Exchange

November 14, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

SIX Swiss Exchange welcomes KTM Industries AG

With the listing of KTM Industries AG (KTMI) one additional foreign company joins SIX Swiss Exchange The shares of KTM Industries AG (FRA:BFC) were primary listed today under the “International Reporting Standard” on SIX Swiss Exchange and traded for the first time. The opening price on SIX Swiss Exchange was CHF 4.90. Based on this…

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October 18, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

SIX Swiss Exchange launches mid-point pricing service

As part of SWXess Maintenance Release (SMR6), SIX Swiss Exchange has launched SIX Swiss Exchange At Midpoint (SwissAtMid). This new service allows execution of Swiss equities in a non-displayed pool at the mid-point of its lit order book. SwissAtMid provides trading participants with significant price improvements in all Blue Chips as well as Mid and…

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October 17, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

SIX Swiss Exchange welcomes DRW Investments Ltd as a new trading participant

The SIX Swiss Exchange has added DRW Investments (UK) Limited as its third new participant in 2016. Gregor Braun, Head Member Acquisition & Product Sales, commented: SIX Swiss Exchange offers excellent trading conditions as well as premium products and services. We are happy that DRW Investments (UK) Limited has joined our exchange and wish them successful trading." With…

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August 08, 2016 BY Mike Fox

SIX Swiss Exchange stocks are now available in USD

SIX Swiss Exchange today announced it is consolidating its position as a leading trading venue for international blue chips. From today SIX Swiss Exchange is enabling investors to trade certain US stocks in its Sponsored Foreign Shares trading segment directly in US dollars, thereby lending them even more flexibility in the implementation of their investment…

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June 01, 2016 BY Mike Fox

itarle opens algorithmic trading service in Zurich

itarle AG (itarle), a leading provider of multi asset algorithmic trading and analytics services for the sell-side, today announced it has established an algorithmic trading service bureau at the Equinix ZH4 data centre in Zurich. Switzerland is also where itarle Global HQ is located along with offices in Dublin and Hong Kong. This latest service has…

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June 09, 2015 BY Mike Fox

SIX Swiss Exchange and Shanghai Stock Exchange sign MoU

Through their memorandum of understanding, SIX Swiss Exchange and Shanghai Stock Exchange are underpinning the free trade agreement concluded between Switzerland and China in 2013 and the 2014 currency agreement between the Swiss National Bank and the People’s Bank of China.

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January 19, 2015 BY Mike Fox

SIX Swiss Exchange launches innovative new corporate bonds trading platform

SIX Swiss Exchange is to launch an electronic platform for trading corporate bonds in the first half of 2015. This platform will allow SIX Swiss Exchange to provide market participants with a more efficient trading of larger blocks also in less liquid issues. The new platform's innovative trading model was developed in close cooperation with…

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July 26, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Swissquote forex volumes up 37% in Q2

Swissquote reports healthy Q2 profits at the corporate level as well, as clients and assets grew. Leading Swiss online brokerage Swissquote (a member of LeapRate's Approved List of global regulated Forex brokerage firms) announced today that FX volumes increased a whopping 37% during Q2, to average CHF 30.5 billion ($32 billion) per month, up from…

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