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Swiss private bank to add Ether, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash to its customers
August 17th, 2017
Falcon Private Bank, a Swiss private banking boutique, has issued an announcement to inform that is the first Swiss private bank to add Ether, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash to its current Bitcoin blockchain asset management services. According the announcement, effective ...
Swiss bank becomes first to offer bitcoin to its richest clients
July 14th, 2017
A Swiss bank is now offering to buy bitcoins for its clients. As of Wednesday, investors can ask their asset manager at Falcon Private Bank, a boutique investment firm headquartered in Zurich, to purchase and store bitcoin on their ...
UBS Inc. fined by SIX Swiss Exchange Sanctions Commission
April 20th, 2017
On 22 March 2016 the SIX Swiss Exchange Court of Arbitration partially confirmed the decision handed down on 16 March 2015 by the SIX Swiss Exchange Sanctions Commission regarding UBS Inc. The Federal Supreme Court did not occur the ...
Credit Swiss is mired in an international tax evasion probe
April 3rd, 2017
Credit Swiss is mired in an international tax evasion probe into thousands of suspect bank accounts. A tip off to the Dutch police prompted raids in The Netherlands, Britain,Germany, France and Australia. The UK’s HM Revenue & Customs confirmed ...
EEX launches Swiss Day Futures with first trades
March 17th, 2017
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) successfully extended its product offering on the power derivatives market by launching Swiss Power Base Day and Weekend Futures on Wednesday. On the first day of trading a total of 5,400 MWh was traded ...
SIX Swiss Exchange reports slight decrease in turnover in February 2017
March 13th, 2017
As of end of February 2017, trading turnover on SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Structured Products Exchange totalled CHF 228.5 bn which corresponds to a decrease of -2.8%. The only increases were registered in the segments ETF (+16.1%) and ...
SIX Swiss Exchange reports trading turnover of CHF 228.5 billion since the start of the year
March 2nd, 2017
Trading turnover of CHF 228.5 billion since the start of the year (-2.8% year-on-year) Total trades in the year to date 8,178,660 (-16% year-on-year) Average trading turnover per day of CHF 5.6 billion In the first two months of ...
SIX Swiss Exchange welcomes new clearing provider
February 22nd, 2017
With EuroCCP, the Swiss exchange offers its trading participants an additional option of choosing Central Counterparties. SIX Swiss Exchange is enlarging its choice for Clearing Services and welcomes EuroCCP as third Central Counterparty (CCP) for the Swiss market. With the ...
Swiss canton to launch its own cryptocurrency
February 21st, 2017
Ticino, the southernmost canton of Switzerland, is planning to issue its own local digital currency for everyday use. Its circulation may be confined to Ticino territory. The future cryptocurrency called ticinocoin (TIC) is a brainchild of computer scientists Claudio ...
SIX Swiss Exchange annnounced two additional European markets
February 15th, 2017
The internationalization of the SIX Swiss Exchange Liquidnet Service (SLS) provides participants with yet more options for non-displayed trading. As of today, SLS supports trading in both Italian and Norwegian equities. This extension adds over 400 shares to the ...
