SIX Financial Information industry provider profile

SIX Financial Information supplies the data and associated tools used in investment, trading-support and back-office workflows. Its catalogue combines prices, security and issuer reference data, corporate actions, regulatory content and indices. For a multi-asset broker, the practical uses range from instrument setup and customer displays to valuation, event handling and product-document delivery. The Financial Information purchase is a content-and-technology relationship, with the selected dataset and permitted use defining its scope.[1]

The sanctions service publishes different update frequencies by jurisdiction: EU, UK and US OFAC coverage is intraday in its displayed schedule, while several other regimes update daily. Its Funds Module looks through holdings and identifies affected components with their weights, jurisdictions and sanction orders. This is a securities-exposure service; it does not replace the broker’s customer-identity process or legal assessment of a restriction.[6]

SIX Data on Snowflake uses native, zero-copy sharing so customers can query licensed datasets within their Snowflake environment. The current product page names end-of-day prices, CARF-related data and sanctioned-securities monitoring among its offerings. This is a distinct consumption route from receiving MDF’s real-time stream: native sharing does not establish that every feed or dataset is included in one package.[14]

For human users, SIX iD combines search, security lists, quotes, news, charts and configurable workspaces. Its role-based packages differ: Base includes delayed/free-source data and a reference-data subset, while the Wealth Management package includes FinXL functions inside Excel for live and historical data and calculations. It is an information workspace; the described functions do not establish order-entry authority.[16]

The enterprise data offerings are primarily priced through a tailored commercial proposal. Public pages explain several charging models, but do not provide one numerical tariff for all instruments, sources and uses. The published market-data model varies by instrument universe, geography and consumption, as well as depth, timeliness and full versus conflated delivery.[17]

The 2025 annual report says reference/pricing, market-data/display and tax/regulatory subscription fees are generally invoiced annually. That accounting description does not establish a universal minimum contract duration. It also treats exchange royalties separately from controlled service revenue, reinforcing the distinction between a SIX service charge and upstream market-data rights.[21]

The Web API adoption route is discovery, a requested free trial and then a commercial agreement. Its portal is described as providing API content documentation and quick-start material. Bulk API adds a data dictionary, sample code and Swagger-based query exploration. These facilities support integration design; neither the public product pages nor a trial request establish production permission for all sources.[8][9]

Regulatory Hub connects manufacturers and distributors through configurable permissions and standardized document/data exchange. It supports EMT, EPT and EET templates alongside pre-sale documents. Manufacturers can distribute through one central upload route; distributors can integrate with core systems or use the web interface. Access to a document and authority to distribute it to a particular audience remain separate parts of the workflow.[19]

The Global Market Data page advertises 24/7 customer support. Product-specific arrangements still matter: index technical support publishes a narrower trading-day window, while DocHub has its own documented service targets. Desk coverage should therefore be distinguished from a contractual restoration time or an end-to-end availability guarantee.[17]

SIX lists SIX Financial Information AG as its Zurich head-office data entity, alongside regional companies including SIX Financial Information UK Ltd, USA Inc. and Singapore Pte. Ltd. A regional office list establishes contact and corporate identity, not permission for a broker’s own financial activity. The supplier and licensed use must match the commercial agreement; the group’s exchange, settlement and custody services are separate businesses.[20][21]

SIX’s standards role provides another form of authority: it identifies itself as National Numbering Agency for ISIN assignment in Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Belgium, and as maintenance-agency secretariat for ISO 4217 currency codes and ISO 10962 CFI codes. These roles support identifier consistency; they are not an investment-services licence or a substitute for the broker’s regulatory permissions.[24]

Financial Information is part of SIX Group. The 2025 report records the Zurich Financial Information company as wholly owned and reports CHF 408.2 million of net operating income for the business unit. Those are historical business-unit figures, separate from the group’s exchange and banking-service operations.[21]

The Snowflake integration launched on 8 April 2026 for joint customers, bringing reference, regulatory and pricing datasets into native cloud sharing. That launch broadens delivery options; it does not replace the existing API, file and streaming products or establish identical content rights across them.[15]

Operator

SIX Financial Information AG and separately contracted regional SIX Financial Information entities

Service scope

Market and reference data, corporate actions, evaluated prices, FX data, regulatory datasets, document workflows and associated delivery technology.

Customer types

Brokerages; Banks; Asset and wealth managers; Financial-product manufacturers and distributors; Fintech and software firms

Delivery

API; SaaS; Hybrid

Pricing publication

Public and quoted pricing

Headquarters

Zurich, Switzerland

Platforms

SIX iD; SIX Flex; Regulatory Hub; DocHub

Integrations

REST/JSON; GraphQL; WebSocket; MDFstream and MDFselect; EDIFACT / VDF conversion formats; CSV files; Snowflake; SIX Connect / Megaport

Pricing scope

Enterprise packages and entitlements require a proposal; selected manufacturer uploads and requested trials are advertised as free.

Implementation

Dataset and identifier mapping, entitlement configuration and product-specific API, file, streaming or cloud integration.

Support

Market-data support is advertised as 24/7; index and DocHub arrangements have their own published scope.

Permissions and regulatory scope

Data and technology services with contractual use rights; exchange, custody and broker permissions must not be inferred from the group brand.

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DocHub’s December 2024 description distinguishes GUI downloads, which archive automatically, from REST downloads requiring an archive flag; widget downloads are not archived. It states ten years for archived documents/metadata and two years for the audit trail. An exit copy can be requested for a time-and-materials charge. The PRIIPs page’s broader ten-year wording should not be treated as proof that every interface automatically creates the same archive.[18][7]

That December 2024 DocHub guide also describes unencrypted internal storage except passwords, and daily backups that can lose data added since the last backup.[18]

The separate Exchanges-unit SIX Market Signal launched on 8 September 2026. Its 1BBO offering combines European cash-equity coverage from SIX Swiss Exchange, BME and Aquis, with API delivery and expressly described rights for training trading models and AI agents. The launch states institutional and Swiss retail availability, with EU/UK retail expansion planned. Those terms belong to Market Signal and do not extend automatically to an existing Financial Information subscription.[28]

The Financial Information privacy notice treats business-contact and service-related personal data separately: retention follows the purpose of collection and legal requirements, with deletion rights subject to applicable exceptions. Deleting an individual’s portal or contact data is therefore a different question from exporting an operational archive or retaining licensed market data after a contract ends.[29]