SECOM

This article deals with the SIX Group's securities settlement system ; for the Japanese security company, see Secom .

SECOM is a securities settlement system operated by the central securities depository for Switzerland , SIX SIS AG . It is used for the safekeeping and processing of tradable financial instruments ( stocks , bonds , ETFs and derivatives ).

In 2008, SECOM processed almost 70 million transactions and at the end of the same year it held over 160,000 different financial instruments with a total value of around 2.4 trillion Swiss francs.

The name SECOM stands for Settlement Communication System .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Philipp Haene: The SECOM securities settlement system . Ed .: Swiss National Bank . May 2009 ( online [accessed August 3, 2017]). .

Web links

• SECOM at SIX SIS AG