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Editorial

As we publish this issue of the Swiss Review of Business and Financial Market Law, the banking world has taken a dramatic turn: Credit Suisse saw the end of a 167-year-old history, as it was humbled into a merger with UBS, the other Swiss banking giant and one of its fiercest competitors. The marriage was strongly encouraged by the Swiss authorities who, by emergency legislation, provided…
Prof. Dr. iur. Susan Emmenegger LL.M., Prof. Dr. iur. Luc Thévenoz
SZW-RSDA 2/2023 | S. 119

L’intermédiation en assurance : quelques considérations à la lumière de la révision partielle de la loi fédérale sur la surveillance des institutions d’assurance privées (LSA)

The Federal Act of 17 December 2004 on the Oversight of Insurance Companies (IOA) underwent a partial revision which was adopted by the parliament on March 18, 2022. The entry into force is planned for July 1, 2023, after the ordinance has been updated following the consultation procedure that ended in December 2022. This partial revision responds to developments that have occurred in the…

Personalvorsorge im Kontext von M&A-Transaktionen

In the context of M&A transactions or restructurings, effects on occupational benefits are not always considered in time. This article examines questions that arise in this context, in particular regarding the change of the employee benefit institution and the possible takeover of an affiliation contract. With a view to the practice of the Federal Supreme Court and the Federal Administrative…

Editorial

Les articles du présent cahier sont consacrés à la digitalisation et l’innovation sous leurs multiples facettes. La variété des thèmes abordés reflète le caractère transversal des questions juridiques pertinentes. En ce qui concerne les domaines du droit, les contributions portent sur des aspects de droit bancaire et financier aussi bien que de droit des contrats, de la responsabilité civile, de…
Prof. Dr. iur. Aline Darbellay LL.M., Prof. Dr. iur. Cornelia Stengel, Prof. Dr. iur. Florent Thouvenin
SZW-RSDA 1/2022 | S. 1

Questions de responsabilité civile et contractuelle soulevées par la distribution de „logiciels libres“ (open source)

Since the 1980s, the free and open software («FOSS») movement promotes the open exchange of software and of its source code to disrupt the limitations brought upon by the copyrightability of software. The recent emergence of public repositories such as GitHub has however impacted the distribution model of FOSS software – as many of them can now be downloaded and operated freely by their users,…

Geschäftsherrenhaftung im Konzernverhältnis?

On November 29, 2020, the Corporate Responsibil­ity-Initiative failed in the referendum by a majority of the cantons. The debate on the Corporate Responsibility Initiative and the indirect counter-proposal of the Swiss Parliament focused on the question of the extent to which Swiss companies should be held liable for the activities of the companies they control in the area of human rights and…
Prof. Dr. iur. Christoph B. Bühler LL.M.
SZW-RSDA 3/2022 | S. 202

Regulierung von künstlicher Intelligenz für FinTech-Anwendungen

New methods of artificial intelligence represent one of the greatest promises and most prospective developments of digitalisation. Artificial intelligence has already enabled numerous innovative applications in the areas of image recognition, medicine, language and mobility, and it is also increasingly being used in the financial market, on which this article focuses. In addition to great…
Prof. Dr. iur. Cornelia Stengel, Gino Wirthensohn MLaw, Luca Stäuble MLaw
SZW-RSDA 4/2021 | S. 395

Solidarische Haftung einer Bank für Menschenrechtsverletzungen im Sudan

On 16 February 2021, a New York court held that under Art. 50(1) of the Swiss Code of Obligations, a bank may become jointly and severally liable for human rights violations committed by a foreign government if those violations would not have occurred in the same frequency or magnitude without the bank’s financial services. The case was brought against the French bank BNP Paribas S.A. by victims…
Prof. Dr. iur. Corinne Widmer Lüchinger
SZW-RSDA 4/2021 | S. 526

Haftung für automatisierte Entscheidungen – Herausforderungen in der Praxis

It is now technically possible for decisions to be made by autonomous means without any human involvement. The ability of automated decision making systems to act increasingly autonomously poses new challenges to the current legal framework. For example, in addition to contractual and non-contractual liability bases, proposals are being made for liability under the Swiss Product Liability Act or…
Clara-Ann Gordon LL.M., Tanja Lutz MLaw, LL.M.
SZW-RSDA 1/2020 | S. 53

Konzernverantwortungsinitiative: Was ändert sich bei einem JA?

The highly debated Swiss Responsible Business Initiative will be put to public vote in November 2020. If the electorate supports the position of the Initiative, a provision titled «Responsibility of Businesses» will be introduced into the Swiss Constitution. According to this provision companies seated in Switzerland would be required to respect internationally recognized human rights and…
Prof. Dr. iur. Dr. h.c. Yeşim M. Atamer LL.M., Florian Willi MLaw, LL.M.
SZW-RSDA 4/2020 | S. 435