26.08.2010
The new September edition of CLEARIT brings an interview with Jörg Metzelaers of Visa Europe. Card payments security, collaboration between the card business service providers and growth potentials in cashless payment transactions are the main topics. Joaquin Almunia, EU Commissioner for competition policy, reflects the European Commission’s perspective on Multilateral Interchange Fees. This edition also focuses on the SEPA Direct Debit Service breaking into the European market and the introduction of cover payments in euro via SWIFT in Switzerland.
20.08.2010
The Austrian HYPO Investmentbank will be joining the interbank payment system for Swiss franc SIC as of beginning of September 2009. Thus the SIC system counts 24 participating financial institutions from Austria.
28.07.2010
Media release: Luxembourg banks opt for SIX Group's SEPA Direct Debit Service
21.07.2010
Zurich Insurance Company Ltd is participating in the Swiss interbank payment system SIC. Thus it will be enabled to process its Swiss franc repo business directly through the financial market infrastructure Swiss Value Chain from the beginning of August.
05.07.2010
The SIC system observes all international core principles for systemically important payment systems: According to the Swiss National Bank's first published assessment of SIC against the CPSS principles, the SIC system observes all the applicable core principles that represent an internationally agreed minimum standard of good practices.
17.06.2010
Media release: The Monegasque bank Banca Popolare di Sondrio to process direct debits in the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) through the Swiss payment traffic infrastructure.
15.06.2010
The London-based Goldman Sachs International is the 24th British bank participating in the SIC system and thus processing their Swiss franc transactions via the Swiss interbank payment system.
20.05.2010
Suva is the first insurance company participating in the Swiss interbank payment system SIC. The biggest non-profit Swiss Accident Insurance Fund will be thus enabled to process its Swiss franc repo business directly through the Swiss Value Chain from the beginning of June. This is due to the decision of the Swiss National Bank to expand access to the Swiss financial market infrastructure for participants without a banking or securities brokering license.
03.05.2010
IBAN tool (Java and Windows) and its installation guide are updated.
30.04.2010
SIX Group Annual Report 2009 and the extract thereof with the chapter Business field Payment Transactions
12.04.2010
The Swiss interbank payment system euroSIC settled a record transaction volume of more than 445,000 in March 2010.
24.03.2010
Update of the Guided Tour, the animated interactive Flash presentation of the Swiss payment traffic world explaining complex issues in a simple way.
08.03.2010
New Guide for Participation in Swiss franc repo market – Edited by the Swiss National Bank, Eurex Zürich, SIX SIS and SIX Interbank Clearing. The changes were mainly due to the National Bank's decision to expand access for participation in the repo system by January 1, 2010 to include specific marketplace participants without a banking or securities brokering license.
01.03.2010
New daily peak on February 26, 2010: The Swiss interbank payment system SIC for Swiss francs handled more than 5 million transactions, having thus broken the previous daily record of 4.5 million on February 27, 2009.
15.01.2010
Key facts and figures 2009 for the Swiss payment systems SIC and euroSIC.
18.12.2009
"Payment system copes well with the crisis", article about the SIC system in the Swiss weekly Finanz und Wirtschaft of 16.12.2009.
13.11.2009
Media release: CETREL and SIX Group launch the SEPA Direct Debit Service in Luxembourg.
10.11.2009
The Swiss interbank payment system euroSIC settled a record transaction volume of 388,900 worth more than 279 billion euro in October 2009.
03.11.2009
Media release: First SEPA direct debits processed – SIX Group successfully launches the new pan-European direct debit scheme in Switzerland.
28.09.2009
London-based Nomura International will be joining the interbank payment system for Swiss franc SIC as of beginning of October 2009.
10.09.2009
Check digit calculator for IBAN plausibility updated with the new countries Albania and Saudi Arabia.
28.08.2009
The follwing banks will be participating in the SEPA Direct Debit Service of SIX Group, which enables them to process euro direct debits with the Europe-wide introduction of the SEPA Core Direct Debit Scheme as of November 2009: UBS, Credit Suisse, Neue Aargauer Bank und Clariden Leu.
20.08.2009
The Austrian VKB-Bank Corporation will be joining the interbank payment system for Swiss franc SIC as of beginning of September 2009. Thus the SIC system counts 22 participating financial institutions from Austria.
07.08.2009
The Swiss interbank payment system euroSIC settled a record volume of more than 274 billion euro in July 2009.
06.08.2009
UBS and PostFinance are the first two Swiss financial institutions having confirmed their participation in the SEPA Direct Debit Scheme. Starting November 2009, they will be able to process euro direct debits with the Europe-wide introduction of the SEPA Core Direct Debit Scheme.
