On 4 November 2015, the Federal Council published a Bill to parliament for a Financial Services Act (FinSA) and a Financial Institutions Act (FinIA). As expected, the FinIA proposes to revise the regulatory architecture for financial institutions. Instead of the current sectorial approach, the FinIA proposes to introduce a regulatory pyramid with a light regulatory framework for asset manager and trustees, and an increasingly more stringent regime for collective asset, securities houses and, at the top, banks.

By Rashid Bahar (Reference: CapLaw-2016-7)