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Banking and financial markets law

CMS Switzerland is your leading specialist for all legal issues specific to banking and financial markets.

Our expertise covers a wide range of topics:

  • Banking supervisory law
  • Banking products and other financial instruments
  • Banking contract law
  • Financial services law
  • Financial market infrastructures
  • Money laundering and other compliance issues
  • Swiss Pfandbriefe bonds
  • Asset managers and securities firms

We advise domestic and foreign banks, asset managers, securities firms and other financial intermediaries on licensing and other regulatory issues.

Our range of services includes:

  • Licensing issues
  • Capital and liquidity requirements
  • Outsourcing
  • Drafting and reviewing bank documents
  • Conflict resolution in and out of court with clients or other banks
  • Compliance requirements and assessment of individual cases
  • Development and legal assessment of new banking products and other financial instruments
  • Requirements of the Financial Services Act
  • Cross-border banking transactions, inbound and outbound
  • Prevention of money laundering
  • Finance disputes

Events

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    Switzerland
    24 Apr 2025

    Cross-Border Financial Services 2025 webinar series

  • Switzerland
    07 May 2025

    On the Pulse webinar series 2025 - Spring/Summer

  • Switzerland
    03 Sept 2025

    Young M&A Professionals Event Vol. 3

  • Switzerland
    13 Oct 2025

    HSG Career Days

  • Switzerland
    12 Nov 2025

    Long Nights of Careers - UZH Zentrum

Local market knowledge. Global outlook

We provide future-facing legal advice to help your organisation thrive. Combining local market knowledge and a global perspective, and with lawyers in locations worldwide, your organisation benefits from the expertise it needs, even across borders.

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