The SIX data model enables complex events to be standardized, decrypted, and delivered in near-real time.

Our service helps you to plan ahead and reduce the risk of missing announcements. It notifies you in advance of events taking place in your portfolio.

• Global corporate actions data
  Procured around the clock, directly from major financial centers worldwide, our corporate actions are delivered for straight-through processing.
• Timeliness and accuracy
  Optimized data processing and quality standards allow us to provide you with intraday corporate actions on a timely basis.
• Deep data coverage
  Receive corporate actions with individual sub-events and related single messages to ensure you are always well-informed.
• Flexible delivery options
  We deliver corporate actions in various formats including ISO 9735 Edifact, ISO 15022 MT 564, XML, and flat file.
• Historical time series
  The history of corporate actions from SIX goes back more than 25 years and provides access to the same detailed corporation actions data available on each instrument as the daily corporate actions service. This can be complemented with securities pricing information going back to the early 1980s. With a focus on primary, official and trusted sources and building on a highly structured data model, SIX has been delivering proven data quality for 90 years.

Available content
Covers more than 80 event types with the focus on the main attributes per event type to allow simple tracking of events. Readily available corporate action information relevant to millions of instruments and over 500,000 institutions.

The different components
The events are structured in “best practice” usage categories and delivered in five files, with focus on the main attributes per event type.

• Distributions: announced payments, ranging from distributions, amortizations, conversion and exercise events to interest payments.
• Mandatory Events: mandatory events on instruments and institutions such as splits, mergers, changes in reference data and legal proceedings.
• Voluntary Events: events that involve investor’s choice, for example exchange offers, tender offers, repayments and class actions.
• Meeting and Listing Events: meetings announcements as well as market specific listing events like listing, delisting and trading suspensions.
• Payment Structure: the structure of related payment messages and key information about the relationship between the events.

Awards
International industry quality recognition. Awarded for excellence, year after year. 10 times Best Corporate Actions Data Provider Award by WatersTechnology since 2010.