On 1 January 2022 the Swiss Financial Services Act (“FinSA“) and the Swiss Financial Institutions Act (“FinIA“) entered into force. While the FinSA provides for a wide range of new rules applicable to financial service providers, irrespective of their licensing status, and new documentation rules applicable to financial instruments, the FinIA introduced, among other things, new licensing requirements for portfolio managers and trustees. The two acts provided for a number of transition periods; on 31 December 2021 the clock ran out on most of these transition periods.

By Patrick Schärli (Reference: CapLaw-2022-04)