Will trusts soon be part of Swiss private law ? The Swiss government has recently published a draft bill for public consultation. This article presents its main features. It looks in some depth at the legal design of the proposal and how it fits into Switzerland’s civil law system. Neither a contract nor a legal entity, the proposed trust is a separate, ring-fenced fund legally owned by the trustee in the exclusive interest of the beneficiaries. Beneficiaries are protected by a broad set of personal claims against the trustee (and potentially against unprotected third-party acquirers) and by the court’s supervisory jurisdiction.

Dans cet article, Célian Hirsch critique la conception de double causalité retenue dans la responsabilité pour le prospectus (haftungsbegründende Kausalität et haftungsausfüllende Kausalität). L’auteur propose de distinguer la causalité selon le dommage invoqué : le lésé doit soit alléguer l’hypothèse dite de la renonciation à l’achat soit se prévaloir de la moins-value. Dans les deux situations, l’investisseur n’aura ainsi qu’à prouver une seule causalité.

This book for students and practitioners focuses on the foundations of international corporate taxation. It deals with rules shaped at the time of mass production. Since then, the OECD Model Tax Convention on Income and Capital has become a new lingua franca for tax lawyers from New Delhi to Washington and from Geneva to Buenos Aires. The rise of automation, the multiplication of business relocations and the digitalization of the economy have nonetheless affected some of its core principles. In twelve chapters, the author explains the mechanisms designed to eliminate double taxation and to prevent non-taxation. The book begins with an introduction to the concept of income and includes the OECD projects which aim to adapt the rules to the 21st century.

This chapter of the book edited by Joseph Lee and Aline Darbellay explores the increasing adoption of platform business models in the banking and financial sector. Digital platforms operate in two-sided markets where they deal with both users of content and commercial customers that have diverging interests. This study examines how the law and regulation shall apprehend the related issue of conflicts of interest. It is argued that digital platforms perform a gatekeeping function by playing a role as information intermediaries. Challenges are posed to corporate governance. Amending the legal and regulatory framework is necessary to the extent that existing mechanisms fail to protect important stakeholders that are beneficiaries of information.

This chapter of the book edited by Joseph Lee and Aline Darbellay provides a summary of the research findings and concludes. In a nutshell, the chapters in this edited book have surveyed the current law and regulation relating to data governance. They have tackled the issues relating to the digital transformation of the financial sector in the broad sense. Accordingly, the authors have developed original insights about financial technologies (FinTech), legal technologies (LegalTech) and insurance technologies (InsurTech). As pointed out in the book, data governance encompasses the process of managing the availability, quality, accuracy, usability and security of data. Whilst data governance is a cross-functional topic, the book has covered it from the perspective of the banking and financial sector. With respect to the technologies, the contributions have laid emphasis on the use of blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data technologies, Machine Learning (ML) and other forms of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The chapters have examined the existing legal and regulatory regimes in several jurisdictions, including the European Union, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Ce chapitre du livre « Interne Untersuchungen » édité par Bazzani, Ferrari-Visca et Nadelhofer traite de la coopération des entreprises avec les autorités administratives fédérales suisses. L’auteur met tout particulièrement l’accent sur les autorités au sein desquelles les enquêtes internes sont pertinentes, comme la FINMA et la Commission de la concurrence (COMCO).