SIX Financial Information
A Swiss financial-data business supplying market, reference, pricing, index, valuation, and regulatory information to financial institutions.
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Overview
SIX Financial Information is the financial-data business associated with SIX Group, the Swiss financial-market infrastructure group. Headquartered in Zurich, it serves banks, asset managers, insurers, investment firms, exchanges, and other institutional users that need consistent information about securities, markets, issuers, prices, corporate actions, indices, and regulatory classifications. The business traces its origins to Ticker AG, established in Zurich in 1930 by a group of Swiss banks. It developed from a Swiss market-information provider into an international financial-data vendor through successive technology, product, and geographic expansions. Its earlier identities included Telekurs Financial and, after the creation of SIX Group in 2008, SIX Telekurs. On 23 April 2012, the Telekurs name was discontinued and the business adopted the SIX Financial Information name. Its core proposition is the delivery of structured and encoded financial information from a central logical database. The reference-data business covers descriptive security information, identifiers, instrument characteristics, issuer data, and corporate actions. The Valordata Feed is a principal data service and is described as covering approximately 20 million financial instruments, with information collected from more than 1,500 trading venues and other contributors. The company also provides calculated and evaluated prices for instruments where direct market prices may be unavailable, unsuitable, or insufficient for valuation and reporting purposes. SIX Financial Information's market-data activities include real-time and delayed feeds, valuation pricing, investment-position information, and products intended to support straight-through processing and back-office workflows. Its services link large numbers of data fields across millions of instruments, allowing institutional customers to connect trading, portfolio, valuation, operations, and compliance processes. Regulatory and tax data is another important area. The business adds classifications, flags, and markers that assist customers with exposure analysis, position aggregation, transaction-tax treatment, withholding-tax processes, sanctions screening, and regulatory reporting. The referenced coverage includes rules and frameworks such as the European savings-tax regime, Swiss transaction taxes, U.S. Internal Revenue Code Section 871(m), U.S. withholding requirements, SEC Rule 22c-2, MiFID, PRIIPs, UCITS requirements, and economic-sanctions controls. These services are designed to help financial institutions interpret changing obligations through standardized instrument and issuer data rather than relying solely on manual research. Display products provide user-facing access to quotations, lists, charts, news, company fundamentals, ratings, and other financial information. The company also operates index services, including calculation and licensing activities. The cited index portfolio includes the Swiss Market Index, or SMI, Spain's IBEX 35, and groups of Nordic equity indices. Index-related revenues can include subscription and asset-based fees. SIX Financial Information also has responsibilities in financial-market standards and identification. It acts as the national numbering agency for Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Belgium, issuing Valoren numbers and International Securities Identification Numbers in those jurisdictions. It is associated with ANNA and the ANNA Service Bureau and participates in standards and industry organizations including ISO, FISD, SWIFT-related initiatives, and working groups connected with European financial-market regulation. The business has operated internationally, with the referenced material describing offices in 23 countries. Its positioning is therefore that of a specialist data and standards provider embedded in financial-market infrastructure, rather than a consumer-facing investment brand.
History
SIX Financial Information began in 1930 as Ticker AG, a Zurich company founded by a group of Swiss banks. Its early role was connected to the distribution of financial-market information in Switzerland. In 1961, the company introduced what the reference material describes as Switzerland's first stock-market television service. It subsequently changed its name to Telekurs Financial, linking the corporate identity to the Telekurs brand that became strongly associated with Swiss market information. In 1975, Telekurs introduced Investdata, described as the first financial-information display service in Switzerland. This marked a shift from relatively simple information distribution toward interactive electronic access to market and investment data. Over time, the company expanded its coverage, data structures, and delivery systems to support professional users across trading, portfolio management, operations, and research. Telekurs began expanding beyond Switzerland in 1990. In 1996, it was reorganized as a holding company and broadened its product range. This period of development helped establish the foundations for a more international business covering market data, reference data, pricing, identifiers, and related financial-information products. In 2007, Telekurs acquired part of the Fininfo Group, extending its reach and product capabilities in financial information. A major structural change followed in 2008, when the Telekurs Group merged with SWX Group, SIS Swiss Financial Services Group, and SEGA Intersettle. These organizations combined to form SIX Group, a broader financial-market infrastructure group. Telekurs Financial then became the financial-information division of SIX Group and was renamed SIX Telekurs. On 23 April 2012, the Telekurs name was discontinued for this business, which became known as SIX Financial Information. The new identity aligned the business with the wider SIX Group while retaining its established role as a provider of institutional financial data. The business developed around a single logical database from which multiple product families could be delivered. These families included reference and descriptive data, corporate actions, real-time and delayed market data, evaluated and calculated prices, regulatory classifications, display products, and index services. The Valordata Feed became a central reference-data offering, covering a very large universe of financial instruments and drawing on trading venues and contributors around the world. SIX Financial Information also maintained a role in market standards. It served as national numbering agency for Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Belgium, issuing Valoren and ISIN identifiers, and participated in international standards initiatives. Its involvement with ANNA, ISO, FISD, SWIFT-related messaging, and regulatory working groups reflected the importance of standardized instrument and corporate-actions information to automated financial processing. The company’s international profile expanded through offices and service activity across multiple countries. The referenced description identifies offices in 23 countries and a database containing structured information for more than 20 million financial instruments. Its historical development therefore reflects the broader transition of financial markets from domestic quotation services to global, machine-readable data infrastructure supporting trading, valuation, compliance, reporting, and investment operations.
- 2012
SIX Financial Information name adopted
[1]On 23 April 2012, the Telekurs name was discontinued for the business, which adopted the SIX Financial Information identity.
- 2008
SIX Group created
[1]Telekurs Group merged with SWX Group, SIS Swiss Financial Services Group, and SEGA Intersettle to form SIX Group. Telekurs Financial became SIX Group's financial-information division and was renamed SIX Telekurs.
- 2007
Part of Fininfo Group acquired
[1]Telekurs acquired part of the Fininfo Group as it continued to broaden its financial-information operations.
- 1996
Holding-company restructuring and product expansion
[1]Telekurs was reorganized into a holding company and expanded its product range.
- 1990
International expansion begins
[1]Telekurs began expanding its activities outside Switzerland.
- 1975
Investdata introduced
[1]Telekurs launched Investdata, described as Switzerland's first financial-information display service.
- 1961
Swiss stock-market television service launched
[1]The company launched the first stock-market television service in Switzerland, according to the referenced historical account, and was subsequently renamed Telekurs Financial.
- 1930
Ticker AG is founded
[1]Ticker AG was established in Zurich by a group of Swiss banks, forming the historical origin of the later Telekurs and SIX Financial Information business.
Products and positioning
A specialist institutional financial-data and market-infrastructure provider, emphasizing broad reference-data coverage, standardized identifiers, pricing, corporate actions, regulatory classifications, and integration with operational workflows.
Reference data and corporate actions
Valordata Feed (VDF)
Valordata Feed is a principal reference-data service built on SIX Financial Information's central data model. It supplies descriptive and administrative information about securities and other financial instruments, together with corporate-actions data. The referenced material describes coverage of approximately 20 million instruments and inputs from more than 1,500 trading venues and contributors. The structured format is intended to support portfolio operations, instrument mastering, valuation, reporting, and straight-through processing.
Market data
Market data feeds
The market-data product family provides real-time or delayed information sourced from major trading venues and other contributors. Services include market-data feeds, valuation pricing, linked data fields across financial instruments, and information designed for investment-position analysis and operational processing. Customers can use the data in trading, portfolio management, valuation, risk, and back-office systems.
Regulatory compliance data
Regulatory and tax data
This product area adds classifications, flags, markers, and other data points used to interpret regulatory, tax, fee, and sanctions requirements. The referenced coverage includes European and Swiss tax rules, U.S. withholding and Section 871(m) requirements, SEC Rule 22c-2, MiFID, PRIIPs, UCITS-related requirements, and global economic sanctions. The service is intended to help institutions aggregate positions, analyze exposures, and automate compliance workflows.
Financial-information terminals and displays
Display products
SIX display products provide user-facing access to a broad range of financial information, including quotations, lists, charts, news, company fundamentals, and ratings. The displays can also be bundled with fee-based content such as news, fundamentals, and ratings. They are intended for professional users who need searchable and visual access to market and issuer information.
Index calculation and licensing
Index services
SIX Financial Information provides index calculation and licensing services. The referenced portfolio includes the Swiss blue-chip SMI, Spain's IBEX 35, and groups of indices representing Nordic equity markets. The business can generate subscription and asset-based revenues from index services, with fixed and variable subscription components described in the reference material.
Financial-market standards and identifiers
National numbering agency services
The business acts as national numbering agency for Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Belgium. In that capacity it is responsible for issuing Valoren numbers and ISIN identifiers. It also participates in international standards work and is associated with ANNA, the ANNA Service Bureau, ISO, FISD, and SWIFT-certified corporate-actions messaging.
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