SIX Introduces AI-Powered Tool to Enhance Corporate Actions Data Retrieval

SIX Introduces AI-Powered Tool to Enhance Corporate Actions Data Retrieval

(IN BRIEF) SIX, a global financial information provider, has launched SIX Bot, an automated software application that provides financial professionals with access to corporate actions data. This tool allows users to ask questions about corporate actions events, delivering real-time information on over 70 event types to more than 600,000 financial market professionals via Symphony, a leading markets’ infrastructure and technology platform. SIX Bot simplifies corporate actions data retrieval, reducing the need for manual intervention and freeing up time for higher-value tasks. The release follows the introduction of the Corporate Action Calendar by SIX, offering reliable event tracking for clients.

(PRESS RELEASE) ZÜRICH, 21-Nov-2022 — /EuropaWire/ — SIX Group, the operator of the infrastructure for the Swiss financial centre, has unveiled SIX Bot, an automated software application designed to deliver comprehensive corporate actions data to over 600,000 financial market professionals on Symphony, a leading markets’ infrastructure and technology platform. SIX Bot, powered by real-time data sharing platform ipushpull, enables users to easily retrieve corporate actions information and enhances operational efficiency by automating routine tasks. By reducing the need for manual intervention, the tool allows teams to focus on higher-value tasks. This release follows the recent launch of the Corporate Action Calendar by SIX, providing clients with reliable tracking of upcoming corporate actions events.

Annelotte De Nanassy, Senior Product Manager, Financial Information, SIX, emphasized the importance of automation in managing the growing complexity and volume of corporate actions, stating “To manage the increasing complexity and volume of corporate actions in today’s financial markets, there must be more automation. The SIX Bot will optimize the current workflow within corporate actions teams, offering higher operational efficiency. This provides firms with a competitive edge in what is a historically difficult area of the market to process, putting them in a much better position to service their clients.” Robert Friend, Head of Market Solutions Products and Partnerships at Symphony, expressed excitement, added “We are very excited to partner with SIX, a global leading provider of reference data and bring their SIX Bot to Symphony’s more than 600,000 strong user community across front, middle and back office. The bot will revolutionize the way financial market professionals consume and process corporate actions. It will transform a currently very manual, time consuming and error prone process into a real time on demand one, supporting the market and regulatory need for fast access to quality data.” Neil Weatherall, Head of Technical Sales at ipushpull, praised SIX for its innovative and forward-thinking approach to automation, commented “We are delighted that SIX has chosen ipushpull to help support their innovative SIX Bot tool. SIX is innovative, forward-thinking and is fully embracing automation to help its clients be more effective with data – core values we both share.”

For more information on SIX’s global corporate actions offering, please visit their website.

SIX
SIX operates and develops infrastructure services for the Swiss and Spanish Stock Exchanges, for Post-Trade Services, Banking Services and Financial Information with the aim of raising efficiency, quality and innovative capacity across the entire value chain of the Swiss and Spanish financial centers. The company is owned by its users (120 banks). With a workforce of 4,044 employees and a presence in 20 countries, it generated operating income of CHF 1.5 billion and Group net profit of CHF 185.0 million in 2022.
www.six-group.com

Symphony
Symphony is the most secure and compliance-enabling markets’ infrastructure and technology platform, where solutions are built or integrated to standardize, automate and innovate financial services workflows. It is a vibrant community of over half a million financial professionals with a trusted directory and serves over 1000 institutions. Symphony is powering over 2,000 community built applications and bots.
www.symphony.com

ipushpull
ipushpull is a leading capital market FinTech firm that connects people, data and applications in real time. We make sharing seamless by eliminating silos of data sitting in emails, spreadsheets or file shares and integrate that data into structured workflows. Data drives financial markets however data sharing has hardly changed for decades. Our goal is to improve human decision-making by reducing the heavy lifting around complex manual repetitive tasks, allowing people to focus on value-add activities.
www.ipushpull.com

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SOURCE: SIX Group