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SIX’s Bjørn Sibbern: ‘We can’t just sit and wait for Brussels to wake up’

SIX’s global head has spent most of his career in Nordic capital markets. Now he’s looking to bring some Scandinavian learnings to the rest of Europe

Two of the world’s largest IPOs and an exchange outage has marked Bjørn Sibbern’s first year at SIX
Two of the world’s largest IPOs and an exchange outage has marked Bjørn Sibbern’s first year at SIX Photo: Danilo Agutoli for FN

Having worked in European capital markets for 20 years, Bjørn Sibbern isn’t holding his breath that renewed interest from Brussels will solve the bloc’s markets malaise.  

Since becoming SIX’s global head of exchanges in January, Sibbern has overseen the second and third largest listings globally this year: skincare maker Galderma in the Swiss market in March and fashion company Puig in the Spanish market in May.

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