SIX Financial Information

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 an expansion of its product range. In 2007, Telekurs acquired part of the Fininfo Group. In 2008, The Telekurs Group merged with SWX Group, SIS Swiss Financial Services Group and SEGA Intersettle to form SIX Group. Telekurs Financial was renamed to SIX Telekurs and became the Financial Information division of SIX Group.

On 23 April 2012, the "Telekurs" name was discontinued and the company is now known as SIX Financial Information.

The SIX Financial Information products flow from the same single logical database, and are divided into the following 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 20 million financial instruments, drawing on over 1500 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.

Regulatory compliance

For regulatory compliance, SIX Financial Information provides information that helps analyze exposures and aggregate positions for 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, IRS Section 871(m) and US IRS Withholding, plus fee calculation regulations such as the SEC rule 22c-2, pan-European rules such as the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, the Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products Regulation and UCITS III and IV and global economic sanctions.