Monday, 13 July 2026
Dr. iur. Servatius von Tatzenberg
Sanctions paperwork, a five-year-old surveillance ruling doing the rounds again, and a reminder that "screening foreign investment" and "seeking deeper EU access" don't sit easily in the same policy.
FINMA updates a sanctions annex again — still not the actual sanctions package
FINMA / SECO / WBF (de)
If your sanctions screening only fires on the big Brussels press releases, you're running stale annex data most of the year. This is the same gap we flagged for the Anhang 2 Sudan revision in February — the delay between an EU listing and the Swiss mirror is now a known quantity, not a surprise.
Prediction: Expect another housekeeping round before the next EU package lands — Bern updates annexes faster than it debates them.
Federal Council adopts Banking Act dispatch — FINMA says welcome, then lists what's still missing
FINMA
Alain Girard moves from Recovery & Resolution to head of FINMA's Banks division
FINMA
Prediction: Watch for resolution-planning questions to show up earlier in routine bank supervision, not just crisis playbooks — that's the background Girard brings to the desk.
Proton's 2021 surveillance-obligations ruling is back in the news cycle — the win was narrower than the headline suggests
SWI swissinfo.ch
The billions frozen from Russian oligarchs are still sitting in Swiss banks — frozen is not the same as forfeited
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Switzerland is prosecuting more foreign bribery cases — OECD counts 11 people and 7 companies convicted
SWI swissinfo.ch
Two heavier pieces land on the desk later today — an assignment-defence ruling insurers lost, and the missing SPA rep the AI Act's 2 August cliff is about to make expensive — back to the annex.
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