SIX Group Appoints New Members To Independent Appeals Board

The Board of Directors of SIX Group has confirmed the continued appointment of three members of the independent Appeals Board that is required under the Swiss Stock Exchange Act: Dr. Dieter Bosshart, Chairman (former President of the Higher Court of Canton Zurich), Dr. Rolf H. Weber, Vice Chairman (Professor of Private, Economic and European Law at the University of Zurich) and Dr. Heinrich Andreas Müller (President of the Higher Court of Canton Zurich). Dr.rer.pol. Niklaus Blattner (Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Basel and former Vice-Chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank), Dr. Christoph B. Bühler, LL.M. (attorney, Basel) and Dr. Jacques Iffland (attorney, Geneva) have been appointed as new members. The members of the Appeals Board will serve in office until the end of 2014. An independent Appeals Board is required under the Swiss Stock Exchange Act to handle appeals against certain decisions made by the SIX Swiss Exchange Sanction Commission, like the delisting of a security or the exclusion of a trader. It also functions as an appeals body of first instance for certain decisions made by the Regulatory Board of SIX Swiss Exchange, like the refusal to list a security.