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Latest news

L-QUIF: new fund category exempt from FINMA authorisation and supervision

20.03.2024

On 1 March 2024, the Swiss parliament and Federal Council have launched a new category of fund, the Limited Qualified Investor Fund (L-QIF).

L-QIFs are collective investment schemes that do not require FINMA authorisation or approval and are not supervised by FINMA.

They are offered solely to qualified investors and managed by entities that are supervised by FINMA. These institutions are responsible for complying with the L-QIF rules themselves.

New FINMA Guidance: status of the licensing process and supervision for portfolio managers and trustees

05.02.2024

In February 2024, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority published a new Guidance.

In its Guidance 01/2024, FINMA provides information on the status of the licensing process and on supervision for portfolio managers and trustees.

FINMA also reports that from now on trustees will be deemed to be operating on a commercial basis and require a licence if the trust assets exceed CHF 5 million at any time, because trust assets are economically separate from the trustee, i.e. they are assets belonging to third parties.

FINMA Guidance 01/2024

New FINMA Guidance: staking services

30.12.2023

Staking involves a number of risks and legal uncertainties.

In December 2023, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority published a new Guidance on staking services which sets out FINMA’s supervisory practice and is intended to enhance transparency about the treatment of staking services under financial market law.

The focus is on protecting customers from the risk of the staking service provider falling into bankruptcy.

FINMA Guidance 08/2023