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Banking and financial markets law

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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
08/01/2024
Switzerland and the UK sign agreement on mutual recognition in financial...
On 21 December 2023, the Swiss Federal Council and HM Treasury in the UK announced the signing of an agreement on mutual recognition in specific areas of financial services between Switzerland and the UK referred to as the Berne Financial Services Agreement (the Agreement). The conclusion of this ground-breaking Agreement is the culmination of more than two years of negotiations following the signing of a Joint Statement on 30 June 2020 aiming at enhancing cooperation in financial services between Switzerland and the UK.