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Aufgeschlagener Vermögensverwaltungsvertrag beim Anhang «Anlagestrategie — zulässige Anlagen» mit abgehakten Zeilen und zwei Unterschriften; daneben eine noch verschlossene Mappe «Eignungsprüfung» und die FINMA-Aufsichtsmitteilung 03/2026.
Finanzmarktaufsicht

Art. 17 Para. 3 FIDLEV Says 'Agreed': Suitability Is Measured Against Your Own Clause

In Supervisory Communication 03/2026, FINMA measures every financial instrument used against two benchmarks: the risk profile and the agreed investment strategy. The second one comes from Art. 17 para. 3, second sentence, FIDLEV — a clause in the mandate, drafted by the firm's own legal team. Whatever the strategy annex permits, the suitability assessment can no longer reject.

Casimir von Firn, MLaw ·
Two model dossiers on a bank desk, 'Fraud Scoring' and 'AML Scoring', with a red prohibition stamp reading 'Art. 5(1)(d) AI Act' over the second one; a magnifying glass enlarges a table with an empty column labelled 'Objective, verifiable facts'.
Anti-Money Laundering & Compliance

Which Fact Preceded the Alert? Article 5(1)(d) AI Act Splits Your Two Scoring Models

The Commission's guidelines of 29 July 2025 expressly place an anti-money-laundering-obligated bank within the scope of the prohibition under Article 5(1)(d) AI Act (para. 209). The fraud model escapes via para. 210; the AML model escapes only through the exception in the final clause — and that exception rests on the model documentation, not the model.

Dr. iur. Servatius von Tatzenberg ·
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