About SWX Europe

SWX Europe Limited (formerly virt-x Exchange Limited) was founded in 2001 as the first cross-border trading platform for pan-European blue chips. By offering a range of innovative services SWX Europe actively shapes new developments in European securities trading and ensures a competitive trading landscape in London. Since its launch SWX Europe has focused on consulting with the London trading community to develop competitive models, successfully increasing its share of SMI trading in the UK, and introducing new services including trade reporting.

SWX Europe is an established Recognised Investment Exchange (RIE) based in London offering

• Electronic order book trading with direct, real-time access to a variety of markets:
  Swiss blue chips (SMI® and SLI® constituents), leading European blue chips and ETFs;
• Expertise in crossborder trading;
• Trade and transaction reporting services;
• A Central Counterparty (CCP) with a choice of clearing organizations (LCH.Clearnet Limited, SIS x-clear AG) and settlement (Euroclear UK & Ireland Limited, Euroclear Bank, SIS SegaInterSettle AG).

As an RIE based in London, SWX Europe is supervised by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). SWX Europe is the home market for trading in the constituents of the SMI® and SLI®, listed by the SWX Swiss Exchange in Switzerland. SWX Europe also offers trading in Europe’s most liquid stocks, which are subject to their domestic listing regimes.

SWX Europe’s London presence gives access to Europe’s key financial centre with a market that offers crossborder trading, clearing and settlement of securities.

With more than 100 members domiciled in Switzerland, England, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, Ireland and the USA, SWX Europe is truly international in focus.

SWX Europe is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the SWX Swiss Exchange. The SWX technological expertise enables it to offer optimal border-spanning solutions in various segments of the securities markets delivering cost-effective, competitive advantages. The stock-exchange technology of the SWX has been adapted to the particular customer needs for the traded products which SWX Europe offers.