Financial Market Infrastructures | Pestalozzi Attorneys at Law

Our Financial Services team advises financial market infrastructures, their participants or members in relation to regulatory matters.

Our partners and associates have wide experience in advising inter alia trading venues, organised trading facilities, central counterparties and their members operating in, into or from Switzerland (on a cross-border basis).

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Recent Legal Updates related to Financial Market Infrastructures

Partial Revision of the FinMIO-FINMA

FinMIA: A revision to reflect regulatory and technological developments

AMLA revision: Stricter due diligence requirements for financial intermediaries as of 1 January 2023

ISDA's IBOR fallbacks go live

Regulatory requirements for operating an organised trading facility

Clearing Obligation: Revised FMIO-FINMA

Compliance with SIX listing rules on corporate governance

Swiss uncleared margin rules and the impact of European regulations on the exchange of collateral in Switzerland

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Our expertise includes:

Drafting and commenting on membership agreements, trading regulation, self-regulatory frameworks and netting agreements as well as issuing legal or regulatory opinions in favor of direct or indirect Swiss or non-Swiss members of financial market infrastructures
Provision of regulatory advice in relation to the establishment of organised trading facilities and the recognition of equivalent regimes, as well as licensing and organisational and risk management requirements, including drafting and commenting on compliance concepts and internal regulations or guidelines related to financial market infrastructure regulations