SIX Plans Integrated Infrastructure for Trading and Settlement of Digital Assets

Switzerland’s stock exchange – owned and managed by SIX – announced that it is building a fully integrated trading, settlement and custody infrastructure for digital assets. SIX is regulated as an operator of Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI) by Swiss Authorities, FINMA and the Swiss National Bank, and intends that the planned ‘digital asset ecosystem’ – SIX Digital Exchange (“SDX”) – will enjoy the same standard of oversight and regulation. It will be the first market infrastructure in the world to offer a fully integrated end to end trading, settlement and custody service for digital assets. The service will provide a safe environment for issuing and trading digital assets and enable the tokenization of existing securities and non-bankable assets to make previously untradeable assets tradeable. The first services will be rolled out in mid-2019. The service will be mainly based on Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT). The implementation approach will provide a bridge for traditional clients to the new world, in a timeframe which allows clients to choose for themselves how and when to take advantage of the new opportunities the new ecosystem provides. 

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