Thursday, 23 July 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
FINMA News (de)
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.
Prediction: 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
FINMA News
MBaer Merchant Bank's liquidation proceedings and the FinCEN designation both resurfaced today
FINMA News
Cobalt is missing from Switzerland's responsible business legislation, and that's not an oversight — it's the NUFG draft
SWI swissinfo.ch
Prediction: 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
SWI swissinfo.ch
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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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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