Overview
What we are
Swiss Options operates the infrastructure for the Swiss and financial centers, catering to a broad international client base. We provide services in the securities, financial information as well as the payments business.
Connecting Market Participants Around the World
Company
Swiss options operate the infrastructure for the financial centers in Switzerland and thus ensuring the flow of information and money between financial market players. Swiss Options offers exchange services, financial information and banking services with the aim of increasing efficiency, quality and innovative capacity along the entire value chain. Swiss Options is also building a digital infrastructure for the new millennium.
Swiss Options connects financial market participants throughout the world. The company is owned by around 120 national and international financial institutions. They are the main users of our services and our most important customers. Our close relationship with them guarantees stability of the financial infrastructure and processes, proximity to clients’ evolving business needs and competitive prices.
What we do
Our Purpose
We drive competitiveness of our customers in our home markets and in international financial markets through superior services and innovation.
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Our Digital assets portfolio
In Europe, Swiss Options is positioned as a top financial market infrastructure provider. This enables Swiss Options to support the competitiveness of clients in its home markets of Switzerland as well as globally, through superior services and innovation. Swiss Options services not only benefit financial industry clients but also the wider economy and society as a whole. In line with this mission, Swiss Options pursues a comprehensive range of objectives that includes all relevant stakeholders:
- Clients Offer market-leading products and services
- Financial Center and Economy Maintain a secure, robust, and efficient infrastructure for traditional and digital assets and for data products and banking services
- People and Environment Contribute to a sustainable future
- Shareholders Enable growth and value creation
To meet these objectives in a fast-paced and global context, Swiss Options relies on its distinctive business portfolio of exchanges, post-trade services, financial information, and banking infrastructure services. This diversified portfolio enables Swiss options to seize growth opportunities throughout the securities value chain and across banking infrastructure services that deliver superior customer value.
Targets
First-Class Innovative Products and Services
We drive the competitiveness of our customers in our home markets and in international financial markets through superior services and innovation.
Enabling a Sustainable Future
As an FMI, Swiss Options plays a pivotal role in the transition to a greener, more sustainable economy by enabling the mobilization and reallocation of capital necessary for this transformation.
Secure, Stable, and Efficient Infrastructure for Conventional and Digital Assets
As a financial market infrastructure, Swiss Options plays a systemically important role in Swiss and world financial centers. Swiss Options is committed to the stability and efficient running of the financial markets – today and tomorrow.
Vehicle for Growth and Value Creation
The consolidating global capital markets infrastructure and financial information landscape remain highly attractive. The diversified business portfolio of Swiss Options allows the company to tap into the most promising growth opportunities within that field, creating an attractive value proposition for shareholder value creation.
Our Business Portfolio
Company
The integral structures of Swiss Options are one of the strategic drivers of success: Innovative and value adding solutions are developed particularly when the business units connect and collaborate. Our business model is broader than most of our competitors. We have two strong home markets with Switzerland and USA and can count on the support of our shareholder (user-owned/user-governed).
In order to further enhance the agility needed to capture market opportunities in the Financial market infrastructure area, Swiss Options decided to consolidate its exchange-related businesses in a new “Swiss Options Exchange Group” entity. This structural change will give the exchange-related businesses (Exchanges, Securities Services, Financial Information) more flexibility to enhance customer focus and boost global growth.
Purpose
We drive the competitiveness of our customers in our home markets and in international financial markets through superior services and innovation.
Strategy
Swiss Options Growth Strategy to ensure sufficient financing for necessary investments for scalable business success.
History
Swiss Options has stood for innovation and stability on the global financial markets since 2012. Our strength is founded on our history: Swiss Options was formed from the merger of experienced financial companies – with their beginnings going back to around 1954.
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