written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . december 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message six is a service provider for the financial industry and operates the infrastructure of switzerland s financial centre . six develops and maintains securities trading and post trading platforms provides financial information and sells cashless payment systems . six operates worldwide and is headquartered in zurich . six group type public company industry financial services headquarters zurich switzerland area served worldwide key people alexandre zeller chairman urs r egsegger ceo revenue chf 1.810 million 2015 1 number of employees 4 058 1 website www.six group.com contents 1 business areas 1.1 securities trading via swiss exchange 1.2 post trading processing and other securities services 1.3 financial information 1.4 cashless payment transactions 2 history 2.1 founding 2.2 acquisitions 2.3 anti trust proceedings 3 ownership structure 4 initiatives 5 references business areas edit six provides services in four business areas . several of those areas are authorised and regulated by the swiss financial market supervisory authority finma and the swiss national bank snb . securities trading via swiss exchange edit six operates switzerland s stock market . the main purpose of the six swiss exchange is to admit securities operate the trading platform monitor trading activities and distribute market data . the trading platform operated by the six swiss exchange and the six structured products exchange allows the trading of equities bonds derivatives investment funds and certificates among other things . six provides and calculates indices such as the swiss market index smi . post trading processing and other securities services edit six securities services provides clearing services by acting as a central counterparty ccp . once cleared the firm settles transactions by ensuring that the buyer receives the shares and the seller receives payment . this process includes the management of real time payments between banks . six also provides custody services for the safekeeping of shares and high value documents . in this regard six securities services acts as switzerland s central securities depository and has custody of most of the financial instruments issued under swiss law . finally on behalf the cantons of switzerland six securities services manages the electronic information portal for land registry data . the latter is run under the name of terravis and enables mortgage land and trade registry transactions . 2 financial information edit six collects financial data from international trading venues and companies in real time normalises it and sells it to subscribers banks fund administrators trading desks etc. . this includes basic information about companies which issue financial instruments reference data and information about measures affecting those instruments corporate actions as well as providing prices for the instruments from most trying venues around the world.he services cover over 15 million financial instruments . cashless payment transactions edit six processes credit debit and prepaid card payments in switzerland austria luxembourg and many other european countries . in addition six powers the swiss cash machine network and a network for processing payment cards at terminals or online . in austria six also issues payment cards . since 2015 six has provided a mobile payment solution paymit allowing user to make payments from their smartphone . in switzerland the firm also processes direct debit payments and provides e billing services . history edit founding edit in 2008 swx group telekurs group and sis group joined forces to form swiss financial market services which began to operate under the brand six group in 2008 . the company provides services in the areas of securities trading former swx group securities services former sis group and financial information and payment transactions former telekurs group . the merged company began operating under the name of swiss financial market services before launching the six brand in august 2008 . acquisitions edit in 2013 six took over the austrian paylife bank gmbh followed by norwegian oslo clearing asa in early 2014 . six increased its stake in luxembourg s financial infrastructure service provider cetrel in 2014 which is now fully owned by six . cetrel and paylife merged with six payment services and continue to operate under the name of the latter . anti trust proceedings edit six multipay ag launched a dcc function in 2005 that was only available on six card solutions ag card terminals . the federal competition commission comco intervened and accused six subsidiary of abusing its dominant market position . in december 2006 six multipay ag made the dcc function available to other terminal providers and disclosed the interface data . four years later the comco imposed a fine of chf 7 million on six . six paid the fine thereby ending the anti trust proceedings . ownership structure edit six is owned by 140 national and international banks in switzerland that are also the main users of its services . six is not listed on the stock exchange . 30.1 % major banks 19.1 % foreign banks 15.1 % commercial and investment banks 13.9 % cantonal banks 9.0 % private banks 8.5 % regional and raiffeisen banks 3.1 % treasury shares 1.2 % other initiatives edit six sponsors wertpapierwelt in olten the world s first international museum for historical bonds and shares . 3 the collection comprises around 7 000 items and documents four centuries of economic history . six also runs the fintech incubator f10 at f rrlibuckstrasse 10 in zurich where staff from six and various start up companies work together with the aim of further developing financial technology in switzerland . 4 references edit a b 1 march 2016 website terravis only in german website wertpapierwelt fintech made in switzerland retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title six group & oldid 742293653 categories companies based in z richfinancial services companies of switzerlandhidden categories articles with a promotional tone from december 2015all articles with a promotional tone navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 2 october 2016 at 21 22 . text is 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