Stock Exchanges in Switzerland
Following are the main stock exchanges in Switzerland:
SIX Swiss Exchange (formerly SWX Swiss Exchange)
- It was the first stock exchange in the world to incorporate a fully automated trading, clearing and settlement system (1995).
- The SIX Swiss Exchange is a member of the international organisations: World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) and Federation of European Stock Exchanges (FESE). Through its membership in FESE, the SIX Swiss Exchange is also a member of European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI), which commissions and finances academic studies on subjects relevant to stock exchanges.
- The SIX Swiss Exchange operates several trading platforms and is the marketplace for different types of securities including domestic shares, multicurrency international bonds, CHF-denominated bonds, ETFs, ETSFs and Swiss-franc repurchase agreements (repos).
- SIX Swiss Exchange is subject to Swiss law (the Federal Act on Stock Exchanges and Securities Trading, SESTA) and is supervised by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority.
Berne eXchange (BX)
- It was founded in 1880 as the Berne Bank Association and formalised in 1884 as the Berne Bourse Association (Berner Börsenverein, BBV).
- BX introduced a fully electronic trading platform with an open, extensible application programming interface in 2002.
SIX Swiss Exchange (formerly SWX Swiss Exchange)
- It was the first stock exchange in the world to incorporate a fully automated trading, clearing and settlement system (1995).
- The SIX Swiss Exchange is a member of the international organisations: World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) and Federation of European Stock Exchanges (FESE). Through its membership in FESE, the SIX Swiss Exchange is also a member of European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI), which commissions and finances academic studies on subjects relevant to stock exchanges.
- The SIX Swiss Exchange operates several trading platforms and is the marketplace for different types of securities including domestic shares, multicurrency international bonds, CHF-denominated bonds, ETFs, ETSFs and Swiss-franc repurchase agreements (repos).
- SIX Swiss Exchange is subject to Swiss law (the Federal Act on Stock Exchanges and Securities Trading, SESTA) and is supervised by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority.
Berne eXchange (BX)
- It was founded in 1880 as the Berne Bank Association and formalised in 1884 as the Berne Bourse Association (Berner Börsenverein, BBV).
- BX introduced a fully electronic trading platform with an open, extensible application programming interface in 2002.