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On 22 October 2025, the Federal Council launched a consultation on amendments to Swiss financial market laws aimed at improving the regulatory framework for stablecoins and other crypto-assets, while ensuring financial...

If you are an e-commerce business selling services or digital content online to EU consumers do your customers enjoy a right of withdrawal?

Flexible management compensation remains a bone of contention in Switzerland. However, a verdict on salary systems is clear – aligning the interests of the managers with those of the shareholders through performance-related remuneration is often not met.

The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has published a report on the Credit Suisse crisis, covering the disappearance of one of Switzerland's two largest banks and the lessons learned for FINMA's supervisory practice.

On 22 September 2021, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) published guidelines concerning changes in the persons entrusted...

On August 19, 2020, the Federal Council submitted a draft legislation to Parliament in view of introducing a new unregulated fund category for qualified investors, the so-called Limited Qualified Investor Fund ...

On November 1, 2023, the SIX Swiss Exchange published amendments to its rules on disclosure of management transactions and ad hoc publicity.

Traditional bank lending no longer dominates the middle-market capital landscape. Over the past decade, private credit has evolved into a significant and increasingly sophisticated source of financing for privately...

During its meeting on 31 January 2024, the Federal Council resolved to put the revised Collective Schemes Act (CISA) and the amended Collective Investment Schemes Ordinance (CISO)...

The Institute for Financial Services Zug IFZ of the Lucerne School of Business, the Swiss Marketplace Lending Association and TMF Group, launched The Marketplace Lending Report, the first comprehensive analysis on the financing ...

A high ranking bank manager of a Geneva bank had been dismissed in November 2015 under a six month garden leave following an internal money-laundering investigation against the bank manager and his team.

On 17 July 2018, the Swiss Supreme Court rendered a decision on the topic of administrative assistance in tax matters, stolen bank data and the principle of good faith (decision no. 2C_648/2017).

The purpose of this newsflash is to inform market participants that FINMA has authorized the two Swiss prospectus review bodies.

Das Urteil aus Lausanne hat grosse Tragweite für den schweizerischen und internationalen Derivatmarkt.

Credit Suisse Group AG ("CS") was a systemically important bank and was listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE" / "Wall Street").

The Regulatory Board of SIX Exchange Regulation ("SER") has announced a revision of its regulations regarding the disclosure of management transactions and ad hoc publicity...

Die neue EU-Verordnung 2022/2554, auch bekannt als "Digital Operational Resilience Act" oder "DORA", ist heute, am 17. Januar 2025, in Kraft getreten.