Suchergebnisse für money laundering

Das Finanzmarktstrafrecht der Schweiz – Status quo unter Einbezug der neusten Gesetzesänderungen, des internationalen Einflusses sowie der anstehenden Neuerungen

The incidents that contributed to the financial crisis and as outcome of this the increase of regulatory density, led as expected also to a rise of criminal provisions. As a result the penal situation for the financial market participants is becoming more and more complex. This overview of the financial market criminal law in Switzerland includes most recent legislative amendments, inter alia the…

Know Your Customer : Quo Vadis ?

Know your client (KYC) is now an essential due diligence requirement for all banking business. The concept only appeared relatively recently in legislation, however, in conjunction with increased efforts to combat organised crime and money laundering. For around 40 years, the scope and content of know your client has continued to expand, sometimes in stark contrast to other standards. This article…

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…

Geldwäschereibekämpfung bei Barzahlungsgeschäften – Staatliche Sterbehilfe für das Bargeld?

The European Union is currently discussing the abolition of its 500 Euro bill and further general restrictions regarding cash money transactions that foresee to ban all cash transactions above a certain, very low threshold. Although economic and business-driven reasons are more likely to be the true reasons behind such a regulatory project that lacks of necessity due to international standards,…