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Switzerland and the UK signed on 21 December 2023 a bilateral treaty on the mutual recognition in financial and insurance services (the Treaty).

On 8 September 2025, after prior approval by the Council of States, the National Council of the Swiss Parliament approved a revised version of the Stark motion, a parliamentary motion aimed at regulating compensation received by senior managers of Swiss banks.

With its ruling of 28 May 2019, the Federal Department of Finance (FDF) granted our client, a Swiss-domiciled company

Das Eidgenössisches Finanzdepartement plant staatliche Regulierung zur Vermeidung von Greenwashing.

Since the last amendment to FINMA's administrative assistance rules with the adoption of the Financial Market Infrastructure Act in 2016, international standards in this area have changed considerably.

Currently, payment systems not operated by banks are subject to a tiered registration / licensing and oversight regime: Smaller, Swiss-based payment...

Advestra's legal team, including Prof. Dr. Rashid Bahar, Dr. Sandro Fehlmann, Angelika Kremer, and Dr. Fabian Loretan, provides insights on critical regulatory developments affecting Swiss financial institutions. The firm examines disclosure requirements under the Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) for internal investigation reports and analyzes proposed amendments to Banking Act regulations concerning systemically important banks.

With the entry into force of the new financial services act on 1 January 2020, and in addition to the regulation of financial services and their providers, the prospectus law in particular has been standardised ...

In a meeting on 6 November 2019, the Federal Council decided that the Financial Services Act and the Financial Institutions Act, together with the corresponding ordinances, will enter into force on 1 January 2020.

Die Überbrückungshilfen für die Wirtschaft sind willkommen. Doch sie sind keine Geschenke. Wie aber sollen Kredite zurückbezahlt werden, wenn zu wenig Liquidität vorhanden ist? Eine gute...

Switzerland is on its way towards the Automatic Exchange of Information. The AEOI will lead to the transmission of sets of data from a reporting financial institution (e.g. a bank) to the domestic tax authority.

The establishment and operation of Alternative Investment Funds ("AIFs") (and their managers) is governed by the Federal Act on Collective Investment Schemes of 23 June 2006

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Switzerland is introducing a new prospectus regime which enters into force on 1 January 2020 with a phase-in period of at least nine months as part of the new Financial Services Act

The Berne Financial Services Agreement between Switzerland and the United Kingdom (the "Berne Financial Services Agreement" or "BFSA") was signed between the two countries in December 2023...

In December 2023, the UK and Switzerland signed the Berne Agreement, a groundbreaking mutual recognition agreement ("MRA") designed to enhance cross-border financial and insurance services.