Key Players of the Swiss Structured Products Industry Announced

For the 16th time, the industry magazine payoff publishes the Swiss Yearbook for Structured Products. It provides interesting facts about the past and current development of the Swiss derivatives market as well as comprehensive statistics.

Furthermore, it annually presents a list of the 30 most important “structurers” in the industry, elected by around 600 professionals. Once again, the list includes two representatives of SIX Swiss Exchange André Buck, Head Debt Capital Market, Exchanges, in 2nd position, and Sébastien Neukom, Senior Sales Manager Structured Products, at #14.

The 2025 Yearbook also pays hommage to André Buck, who will retire this year after 15 years at SIX, further 14 years at UBS, Zürcher Kantonalbank and Vontobel and a total of over 40 years in the financial industry. In the interview 15 years of growth through innovation and entrepreneurship, he reviews his numerious achievements – crowned by winning the Structured Products Retail Europe Awards four times in the five years between 2020 and 2024. It offers fascinating insights into the success story of Structured Products in Switzerland and beyond. 

André Buck commented: “Behind these awards of recent years are the collective efforts of our team at SIX and our commitment to innovation and excellence. We are an important part of the industry and seek the best solutions together to further develop our trading venue for structured products competitively and innovatively.”

In 2024, turnover in Structured Products on SIX Swiss Exchange grew by 12.8% to CHF 9,031 million. Transactions were up 14.8% with a total of 446,078. For the second time in a row, the number of newly listed structured products in a year passed the 100,000 threshold, reaching the new record of 110,792, while 60,000 were tradable at year end.

CONNEXOR continued is geographic expansion and closed 2024 with record growth, processing 2.25 million newly issued products – a 52% growth compared to the previous year. Having welcomed its 100th client in 2023, the number has risen further to reach 130 at the end of 2024. 

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