Drive! Our contribution to a competitive Swiss financial center. CONTENT 4 WELCOME TO SIX 28 Drive — EXPERTISE Nearly 2,600 employees throughout the world work hard each day to 6 Drive — PERFORMANCE ensure the quality and development Our world-class services drive the of our services. performance of our customers in Swiss and international markets. 30 DIVERSITY OF THE WORKFORCE 30 CORPORATE CULTURE AND VALUES 8 EXCHANGE SERVICES 31 WORKING AT SIX: THREE QUESTIONS TO 12 FINANCIAL INFORMATION CHIEF HR OFFICER SUSANNE BERGER 14 BANKING SERVICES 16 SIX WORLDWIDE 32 Drive — RESPONSIBILITY We are making a contribution 18 Drive — INNOVATION to society and the environment. Our innovative solutions drive the transformation of the financial 33 CORPORATE VOLUNTEERING industry. 34 SWISS FINANCE MUSEUM 34 SUSTAINABILITY AT SIX 20 INNOVATION AT SIX 22 FLAGSHIP PROJECTS 22 PROMOTING FINTECH AND START-UPS 24 Drive — STABILITY Without our high-performance infrastructure the Swiss economy would come to a standstill. 26 SUPERVISION AND REGULATION 27 COMPLIANCE AND DATA PROTECTION 27 SECURITY AND AVAILABILITY OF THE SYSTEMS WELCOME TO SIX We are strengthening the international competitiveness of the Swiss financial center. Through top-class services and innovations. Through stability, expertise and responsibility. WHAT WE STAND FOR Our corporate culture is shaped by four central values. Customer Focus: we generate added value for our customers. Ownership: we take respon- sibility and drive innovation. Trust: we promote a culture of openness and mutual trust. Collaboration: we collaborate con structively with colleagues, clients and partners. SIX DRIVE — 4 WHAT WE DO SIX operates the infrastructure for the Swiss financial center, thus ensuring the flow of information and money WHO WE WORK WITH between financial market SIX connects financial market players. SIX offers exchange participants in Switzerland services, financial information and throughout the world. and banking services – and is We are owned by around building a digital infrastructure 125 banks that are active in for the new millennium. the Swiss financial center. They are the main users of our infrastructure and our most important customers. SIX DRIVE — 5 Input Drive! Output PERFORMANCE INNOVATION STABILITY EXPERTISE RESPONSIBILITY PERFORMANCE INNOVATION STABILITY EXPERTISE RESPONSIBILITY Exchange Services Corporate Equity Ratio Headcount Corporate Volunteering Operating Income Digital Infrastructure Creditworthiness Employees Worldwide Energy Efficiency CHF 89.4 Venture Fund CHF 1.94 CHF 50 % 5sites + % + % 89.1 2,594 in four European countries No. 1 A 79 Its stable financial situation of our employees work in 2 employees in 20 countries work SIX is building SIX Digital Credit rating of SIX Group Ltd As a member of the Zurich Energy billion volunteered to work on social and billion enables SIX to invest further hard each day to ensure the Exchange: the world’s first fully according to Standard & Poor’s Switzer land. 21 % work in further Model, SIX has pledged to improve raised on the Swiss capital market by environmental projects in 2018. was generated by SIX in the 2018 million in its business. success, stability and security of integrated digital stock exchange. (S&P) 2018. 19 countries worldwide. its energy efficiency at the Swiss companies in 2018 and listed on SIX. Page 33 financial year. is being made available to start-ups six-group.com/annual-report the services provided by SIX. Page 19 six-group.com/annual-report Page 28 sites by two percent per year. Page 7 six-group.com/annual-report by SIX FinTech Ventures. Page 28 six-group.com/responsibility Page 22 Swiss Finance Financial F10 Incubator Data Protection Employees Environmental Group Net Profit Corporate Banking Services Apprenticeships Museum Information & Accelerator Protection Venture Fund CHF 2.88 610.5 8,583 32.4 100% 45 years beehives of employees received training on was the average age of our 63 4 start-ups were apprentices at SIX in 2018: visitors are cared for by SIX on the roof of billion million 30 the EU General Data Protection employees in 2018. start-ups were accepted into the F10 4 40 IT apprentices, 21 commercial showed an interest in the history Regulation (GDPR) in 2018. Page 30 the head office in Zurich-West. of net profit was generated by SIX received investment funding from transactions were processed by million Accelerator Program in 2018. apprentices and 2 customer of the Swiss financial center in Page 27 six-group.com/responsibility in 2018. The record result is the SIX FinTech Ventures in 2018. the SIC interbank clearing system f10.ch dialogue specialists. 2018 and visited the Swiss Finance financial instruments are covered in result of a successful transaction: Page 22 in 2018. six-group.com/careers Museum. the data universe of SIX. in 2018 SIX transferred its “Cards” Page 25 Page 34 Page 12 business unit to a strategic part- Hackathon Cyber Security Proportion of Women Environmental nership with the French company Management Worldline. Page 17 Hackathon Cyber Security Ongoing Education Banking Services six-group.com/annual-report Global Reporting 24 × 7 × 52 Initiative The Security Operations Center 2 billion 10.2 % Special Dividend 16,640 h – security events are collected and 48h of SIX operates round the clock 29 was the time allowed to Hackathon of the workforce at SIX is female. % were spent by employees of SIX participants in order to program a every day of the year to protect the Page 30 38 correlated by the Security Opera- in internal training courses during was the year-on-year drop in the 293 2013 financial center from cyberattacks. participants attended one of tions Center of SIX every day and prototype for an innovative financial use of plastic cups by SIX at its Swiss 2018. was when SIX joined the Global million service. six-group.com/cybersecurity the Hackathons supported by SIX analyzed in real time for potential sites in 2018. In 2019 SIX is switching CHF 17.30 six-group.com/responsibility Reporting Initiative (GRI). From debit cards has been processed in Zurich, Singapore and Vienna security risks. Page 23 to FSC-certified paper cups. per share is being paid out to 2019 onwards, SIX will report by SIX in 2018 in Switzerland and in 2018. Page 21 six-group.com/responsibility shareholders by SIX following the on its corporate responsibility Liechtenstein. Page 23 record profit in 2018. commitment annually in accor- Page 14 Switzerland six-group.com/annual-report dance with GRI standards. Page 34 The headquarters of SIX is in Zurich. Drive — PERFORMANCE Our world-class services are the driving force behind our customers’ performance – in Switzerland and internationally. EXCHANGE SERVICES Listing, trading, post-trading: the entire capital market value EXCHANGE chain under one reliable roof. SERVICES Capital FINANCIAL INFORMATION Raise Reference data, regulatory data, CHF indices: we are one of the world’s 89.4 leading providers of financial billion information. raised on the Swiss capital market and listed on SIX by BANKING SERVICES companies in 2018. Cards, cash, billing and payments: we have many years of expertise in the payments business. SIX DRIVE — 6 Drive — PERFORMANCE SIX Provides Direct Access to International Capital and Liquidity For decades, Switzerland has been one of the world’s most attractive capital markets thanks to its globally recognized ability to innovate, EXCHANGE SERVICES its competitiveness and its political and economic stability. The Swiss CORPORATES financial center boasts an extraordinarily high concentration of global TRUST corporations, financial services firms and potent investors. The Swiss stock exchange – owned and managed by SIX – provides companies with access to experienced, highly capitalized Swiss and international investors and high liquidity. This is how SIX plays a key role in financing growth and safeguarding the long-term prosperity of the Swiss economy. SIX DRIVE — 7 Drive — PERFORMANCE EXCHANGE SERVICES SIX owns and manages the Swiss stock exchange – making Switzerland one of Europe’s leading capital markets. With a free-float market capitalization of EUR 1,076 billion, the Swiss stock exchange is the fourth biggest stock exchange in Europe. Measured against the comparatively small Swiss economy, the Swiss stock exchange is thus superior in size. The around 260 companies listed here include global corporations such as Nestlé, Novartis and Roche, that rank in the top European companies by market capitalization. To boost the visibility of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on the Swiss stock exchange, SIX offers the Stage program. Stage is designed to help SMEs to increase their visibility among the essential stakeholders in the capital market in a targeted manner. Upon request, SMEs benefit from research coverage provided by experienced banks. In 2018, the Swiss stock exchange recorded numerous listings: twelve companies went public, the highest number reached since 2001. Additionally, 270 ETFs, 345 bonds and 39,358 derivatives were listed for the first time. SIX is able to cope with this enormous amount thanks EXCHANGE SERVICES CORPORATES to a high level of automation. CUSTOMER FOCUS “A listed company can efficiently raise additional capital to continue developing and expanding its business.” As Head Primary Markets, Valeria Ceccarelli encourages new companies to go public (IPOs) and maintains relationships with those already listed. SIX DRIVE — 8 Drive — PERFORMANCE EXCHANGE SERVICES SIX offers the world’s INET technology, which is one Market highest liquidity for of the fastest and most up-to- Share trading in Swiss securities. date trading technologies in the world. SIX is also constantly The Swiss stock exchange is the investing in ways to improve largest trading venue for Swiss liquidity on the platform. This 70.8 % securities. A buy or sell order means that the difference for Swiss equities is more likely between bid and ask prices is to be executed faster here – also lower than at other European of trading in Swiss for large volumes – than trading venues.