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Banking and financial markets law

CMS Switzerland is your leading specialist for all legal issues specific to banking and financial markets.

Our expertise covers a wide range of topics:

  • Banking supervisory law
  • Banking products and other financial instruments
  • Banking contract law
  • Financial services law
  • Financial market infrastructures
  • Money laundering and other compliance issues
  • Swiss Pfandbriefe bonds
  • Asset managers and securities firms

We advise domestic and foreign banks, asset managers, securities firms and other financial intermediaries on licensing and other regulatory issues.

Our range of services includes:

  • Licensing issues
  • Capital and liquidity requirements
  • Outsourcing
  • Drafting and reviewing bank documents
  • Conflict resolution in and out of court with clients or other banks
  • Compliance requirements and assessment of individual cases
  • Development and legal assessment of new banking products and other financial instruments
  • Requirements of the Financial Services Act
  • Cross-border banking transactions, inbound and outbound
  • Prevention of money laundering
  • Finance disputes

Banking and financial markets law

Legal Flash

Legal Flash

29 Dec 2024 1 min read
Update on the Berne Financial Services Agreement: Swiss Federal Council adopts dispatch on agreement with the United Kingdom on mutual recognition in financial services

Update on the Berne Financial Services Agreement: Swiss Federal Council adopts dispatch on agreement with the United Kingdom on mutual recognition in financial services

16 Sep 2024 4 min read

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