Donnerstag, 23. Juli 2026
Dr. iur. Servatius von Tatzenberg
Sanctions annexes multiplied like rabbits today while the actual headlines went quiet — which is exactly the kind of day that punishes anyone who only reads what their newsfeed bolds.
Five sanctions regimes updated their annexes in one week — Sudan, Taliban, ISIL/Al-Qaida twice, Iran, and an unlabeled one nobody named out loud
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None of this is dramatic. All of it is binding the moment WBF or SECO publishes it — no grace period, no notification requirement to affected parties. If your screening vendor batches list updates weekly instead of daily, you had a gap this week. Check which.
Prognose: Expect at least one more ISIL/Al-Qaida annex update before September — SECO has amended that list twice in three months and shows no sign of slowing.
FINMA officially welcomes its own ministry's Banking Act dispatch — read the enthusiasm gap
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FINMA's 2026 annual media conference recap makes the supervisory priorities sound tidier than the underlying memos
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FINMA's digital fraud guidance gets its own news cycle — again
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MBaer Merchant Bank's liquidation proceedings and the FinCEN designation both resurfaced today
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Cobalt is missing from Switzerland's responsible business legislation, and that's not an oversight — it's the NUFG draft
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Prognose: NGOs will push a cobalt-specific amendment during NUFG's parliamentary reading — expect it as the first serious fight over scope.
AI vendors are now a fixture at Europe's borders, and the procurement contracts read like they were written before anyone thought about liability
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The meltdown at Nestlé reads like a case study nobody wanted to write
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Why pro-business Switzerland is warming to foreign investment screening
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Switzerland is closing more foreign-bribery cases, but the enforcement gap for corporate liability hasn't moved
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Switzerland stirs Brexit ghosts in its push for EU access
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The billions in frozen Russian assets, and the Magnitsky precedent nobody wants repeated
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Also brewing in the back office today: Servatius and Casimir have four EuGH pieces and an EDSA blockchain read landing later — I'll link them once they're up, not before.
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