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The concept of offshore banking has long been a strategy employed by onshore companies looking to optimize their financial management and assets.

The new Swiss financial services legislation came into force at the beginning of 2020. After a transitional period of two years, which will come to an end on 31 December 2021...

While the Swiss Financial Market Infrastructure Act (FMIA) by and large achieved the intended goals, some adjustments are proposed in the context of the first FMIA REFIT...

At the end of October 2018, the Federal Council initiated the consultation procedure on the ordinances implementing the FinSA (draft FinSO)

The Federal Council adopted the amended Col­lective Investment Schemes Ordinance (CISO) on 31 January 2024...

Private equity sponsors face a critical window in the first 100 to 180 days post-acquisition when full operational access reveals control weaknesses, compliance exposures, and data irregularities...

As a third country, Switzerland is obliged neither by a bilateral nor by a multilateral agreement to transpose EU secondary law in the field of financial services. The bilateral agreements between Switzerland and the EU do not contain a market access agreement for financial services. PSD3 and PSR will therefore have no direct effect in Switzerland. Swiss payment service providers are primarily governed by Swiss law

Switzerland has a liberal economic system, political stability, excellent infrastructure, a high standard of living, and a competitive tax system.

On June 19, 2020, Swiss Parliament approved the revision of stock corporation law, which now entered into force on January 1, 2023.

Switzerland is home to approximately 250 banks with an aggregate balance sheet of about CHF3.23 trillion ($3.25 trillion).

La décennie écoulée a été marquée par une succession de jurisprudences de principe qui ont bouleversé la pratique des rétrocessions.

The Federal Council adopted the amended Collective Investment Schemes Ordinance (CISO) on 31 January 2024.

The Berne Financial Services Agreement (BFSA) entered into force on 1 January 2026.

Digital or electronic signatures ("e-signatures") are an important prerequisite for digital business transactions, both between private individuals and with public authorities.

Statements such as "CO₂-neutral", "net-zero" or "sustainable" are increasingly under scrutiny. With the recent implementation guidance published by the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment...

In this briefing, we examine the new regulatory regime for portfolio managers, trustees, and managers of collective assets under the FinIA.

On 6 November 2019, the Federal Council decided that the Financial Services Act (FinSA) would enter into force on 1 January 2020. Subject to a transition regime,...

Dans un arrêt 4A_369/2015 du 25 avril 2016, le Tribunal fédéral (TF) examine la portée du devoir d'information de la banque dans le cadre d'une relation de conseil en placement.