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A-03-11 CAO

Capital Adequacy Ordinance

Chronology :  Ordinance on the Capital Adequacy and Risk Diversification of Banks and Securities Firms

The successive versions of this act are systematically recorded since January 1st 2020.

The preparatory documents are only listed for certain projects. They are indicated hereunder without any exhaustive character.

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Federal Council report impressive but still too vague

Rashid Bahar Rashid Bahar  — 3 May 2024
Since the adoption of the too-big-to-fail regime in 2011, article 52 BL stipulates that the Federal Council must examine the provisions of articles 7 to 14b BL three years after the system comes into force and then every two years, compare them with the corresponding international standards abroad and report back to the Federal Assembly, if necessary with proposals for amendments to the law or ordinances. In its report on systemically important banks of 4 June 2021 (FF 2021 1487),[...]
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FINMA practice and the judge’s power of cognition

Vaïk Müller Vaïk Müller  — 8 May 2023
In a ruling dated March 30, 2023 (B-4004_2021), the Federal Administrative Court (FAT) found that the additional capital requirements imposed by FINMA on PostFinance SA (PostFinance) on the basis of art. 131b cum 45 let. b of the Capital Adequacy Ordinance (CAO) and its practice set out in FINMA Circular 2019/2 "Interest rate risks - banks" (the Circular) to address the risk of rising interest rates were in accordance with the law. This ruling follows a previous decision by the[...]
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