Joint Venture Scoach to face termination

The joint trading platform Scoach for structured products in Switzerland and Germany operated by SIX and Deutsche Börse will face disbandment because SIX terminated the cooperation contract.

Due to this termination of the cooperation contract the joint venture will end on 30 June 2013. The markets brought into the venture will be returned to the mother companies.

About SIX Swiss Exchange

SIX Swiss Exchange is a leading regulated securities exchange in Europe and unrivalled SIX Swiss Exchange is a leading regulated securities exchange in Europe and unrivalled in the life science area. SIX Swiss Exchange forms the efficient and transparent reference market for trading in its attractive segments of equities, bonds, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and Exchange Traded Products (ETPs).

SIX Swiss Exchange calculates a wide range of indices – including Switzerland’s foremost equity index, the SMI®, further benchmarks such as the SLI® and SPI® as well as industry, bond and customer indices. With holdings in Scoach, STOXX, Swiss Fund Data and Indexium, it is involved in successful joint ventures that benefit all financial market players.

SIX operates Switzerland’s financial market infrastructure and offers on a global scale comprehensive services in the areas of securities trading, clearing and settlement, as well as financial information and payment transactions. The company is owned by its users (approximately 150 banks of various size and orientation) and, with its workforce of more than 3‚900 employees and presence in 25 countries, generated an operating income of 1.26 billion Swiss francs and a Group net income of CHF 218.6 million in 2011.

About Deutsche Börse Group

Deutsche Börse Group is one of the world’s leading service providers for the financial industry with a product and service offering for issuers, investors, intermediaries and data vendors. The Group covers the entire process chain from trading, through clearing, to settlement and securities custody. Furthermore, Deutsche Börse offers market data, indices and analyses and is a service provider for the development and operation of IT systems.

The key markets within the Group are the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Xetra), one of Europe’s largest stock exchanges, and Eurex Exchange, one of the largest derivatives exchanges in the world.

Deutsche Börse Group includes Deutsche Börse AG, a DAX company, and its wholly-owned subsidiaries Clearstream International S.A. and Eurex Zürich AG. Eurex’s portfolio of markets includes International Securities Exchange (ISE), a leading U.S. options exchange, the European Energy Exchange (EEX) as well as the ECNs Eurex Repo and Eurex Bonds, which round out Eurex’s offering for repo and bond trading. Cash market activities and the market data business are run as business areas of Deutsche Börse AG.