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Welches «Too-big-to-fail»-Regime braucht die Schweiz?

On March 19, 2023, the Swiss Finance Minister together with the Swiss National Bank and the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA announced the rescue operation for Credit Suisse, the second largest Swiss banking group. After having lost the confidence of its customers, creditors and investors and unprecedented deposit outflows a rescue operation by involving the state of Switzerland…

Bonus als Risiko – Zur Regulierung der variablen Vergütung von Bankorganen

The experience with the Credit Suisse crisis of confidence has once again shown that compensation systems are of considerable importance for the risk management of financial institutions. Inappropriate risks and wrong incentives can endanger the substance and profitability of a bank and thus its stability. This article focuses on the regulation of variable compensation of bank boards and analyzes…

Bail-in-Bonds

Following the financial crisis of 2007/08, the bail-in has established itself as the preferred resolution strategy for large banks throughout Switzerland and internationally. According to the concept, it is not the bank’s owners or the state that are to finance a resolution but the bank’s creditors. This is to be achieved by converting a certain type of debt called «bail-in-bonds» into equity…

Neuerungen in der Einlagensicherung

The partial revision of the Banking Act and thus an improved depositor protection came into force on 1^st January 2023. CHF 100 000 will remain protected if a bank goes bankrupt, and the financing of the system is strength­ened. Among other things, the new law brings changes for joint account holders. Parts of the revision came into force immediately. Transitional periods apply to others. CS…

Kooperationsformen zwischen Banken und Drittanbietern aus vertrags- und datenschutzrechtlicher Perspektive

Open Banking or Open Finance essentially means the exchange of financial data between different financial service providers including third party providers at the request of the customer. From a civil liability and data protection perspective this paper examines the legal relationships between banks, third party providers, platforms and customers on the basis of four possible «model forms of…

Können Investitionskontrollen für gleich lange Spiesse sorgen?

Amidst global protectionist tendencies and in view of major takeovers by foreign state-controlled companies calls for increased public control of foreign investment have been getting louder around the globe. Most recently, the Swiss parliament approved a motion obliging the Swiss government to prepare a draft bill regarding foreign investment screening. Apart from national security concerns,…

Aussergerichtliche Sanierung einer Aktiengesellschaft

Die im Baugewerbe tätige A. AG befand sich seit längerem in wirtschaftlichen Schwierigkeiten. Gestützt auf ein Stillhalteabkommen mit den Banken B., C., D., E. und F. verfügte sie über…

Credit Scoring, AML Software & Risk Profiling: Automatisierte Entscheidungen im Rahmen von Finanzdienstleistungen

Techniques of automated decision making, including profiling are, no doubt, also of interest to financial service providers. This essay describes three such applications (credit scoring, transaction monitoring for AML purposes, risk profiling for investors) and discusses their possible compliance with the requirements under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, as well as the proposed new…

Europareport

Mit zwei Urteilen vom 15. Dezember 2016 hat das Gericht der Europäischen Union (nachfolgend: «Gericht» oder «EuG») die Anfechtungsklagen der Unternehmen Infineon Technologies AG (nachfolgend: «In­fineon») und Koninklijke Philips NV und Philips France (nachfolgend: «Philips») im Smartcard-­Chips-Kar­­tellfall abgewiesen (Rs. T-758/14 und Rs. T-762/14).

Der Irrtum über den Wert des Vertragsgegenstands, insbesondere beim Unternehmenskauf

B (Verkäufer) betrieb als Inhaber eines Einzelunternehmens eine Garage. Aus Altersgründen beabsichtigte er, das Garagenunternehmen zu verkaufen. Zu diesem Zweck schloss er am 7. Dezember 2012 mit der…