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SWX Swiss Exchange
The SWX Swiss Exchange is one of the world’s leading and most technologically
advanced securities exchanges. In 1996, floor-based trading in Switzerland was supplanted
by electronic trading. This fully automated trading, clearing and settlement system
remains unique in the world. At the click of a mouse, an order is executed, cleared, paid
for and confirmed – all within the space of 2 minutes, and this an average of 1.2
million transactions each trading day. The SWX Swiss Exchange offers its customers
first-rate securities exchange services and a broad range of investment products. The SWX
Swiss Exchange regards itself not only as a stock exchange, but also as a provider of
exchange services in the wider sense.
Through its various shareholdings and alliances, the SWX Group is active on an
international scale. It offers crossborder integral solutions in specific securities
market segments: be it in the form of Eurex, the world’s number 1 derivatives
exchange; virt-x, the first pan-European exchange for the fully integrated trading of
blue-chip shares; STOXX, with its established family of benchmark indices; or EXFEED, a
provider of high quality raw financial data.
The SWX Swiss Exchange has over a hundred participants, a third of which are so-called
'remote participants' who are based abroad. Over 5,000 securities were admitted to trading
on the SWX Swiss Exchange: about 420 shares, more than 2,800 bonds and Eurobonds, close to
3,500 options (warrants) and about 25 investment funds. Some of the issuers of these
products are domiciled in Switzerland, but most of them are domiciled abroad.
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