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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…

Verfügt die FINMA über genügend wirksame und scharfe Instrumente gegen (höchste) Bankmanager?

In March 2023, Crédit Suisse (CS) had to be taken over by UBS. It was the first global systemically important bank to face imminent resolution since the financial crisis of 2007–2008. Unlike UBS in 2008, CS remained well capitalized until the end. But clients had lost confidence in the bank’s management. This led to a bank run and thus to the bank’s demise. The ongoing crisis of specialist and…

Echtzeitbankenaufsicht – la panacée?

In recent years, the concept of data-based banking supervision has evolved to influence the dynamics between supervisors and supervised institutions. This de­ve­lopment, if accompanied by adequate implementation, undoubtedly improves the quality of banking supervision. However, data-based supervision does not automatically lead to real-time supervision. While it tends to reduce the time lag…

Sekundärnutzung von Mobilitätsdaten: Infrastruktur und Governance bei Mobility-as-a-Service

Proponents and opponents hotly debate the so-called secondary use of data in sectors as diverse as health, education, energy and mobility. The parallelism of these discussions has led politicians to call for a framework law on the secondary use of data. By choosing Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS), a promising service in the mobility sector, this article explores two connected features such a…

Die Strafbestimmungen des neuen DSG

As soon as the revised Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (DPA) will come into force, the cantonal prosecuting authorities will be entitled to impose heavy fines of up to CHF 250 000 on the person responsible for non-compliant behavior. While this may seem to be a low figure compared to the high figures provided for by the GDPR, the fines under the revised DPA are of personal nature and may not…

Europareport

Nicht nur der Europäische Gerichtshof («EuGH»), sondern auch der Unionsgesetzgeber hat sich kürzlich mit den Spezialregeln des Unionsrechts beschäftigt, die in Abweichung vom allgemeinen Kartellrecht für all diejenigen Unternehmen gelten sollen, die als Landwirte, Verarbeiter oder Handelsunternehmen im Agrarsektor im Sinne der Art. 39 ff. AEUV tätig sind:

Aktien im Gesamteigentum

Der Bruder A.X und seine ältere Schwester B.X sind die Kinder und Alleinerben des verstorbenen Ehepaars R.X (Vater) und P.X (Mutter). Das Ehepaar war Eigentümer der M. AG und der N. AG mit Sitz in…

Konzernorganisationsrecht 2.0

The premise of this article is that the law of corporate groups is, in essence, business organisation law. The departure point is the observation that the function of the corporate group relates primarily to the overcoming of entrepreneurial problems that economic globalisation has brought, and continues to bring, forth. In order to do justice to this economic reality, the law must provide the…

Tendenzen der Konzernbesteuerung im schweizerischen Steuerrecht

The article deals with the latest developments and tendencies of group taxation in Switzerland. Starting point are the roots of company taxation in Switzerland. On this basis the major lines of developments in Swiss tax law and international tax law of Switzerland are discussed. Thereafter, tendencies on how group taxation in Switzerland will progress further will be identified. By comparing the…

GAFI-Umsetzung: Pflicht zur Eintragung ins Handelsregister auch für kirchliche Stiftungen und Familienstiftungen

Following GAFI (Groupe d’action financière) recommendation 24 (transparency to fight against money laundering and financing of terrorism) the new version of article 52, paragraph 2, Swiss Civil Code (in force since January 1^st, 2016) cancelled the exceptions for family and ecclesiastical foundations from the duty to be registered in the commercial register, i.e. such a duty is now prescribed…