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On 1 June, the Federal Council launched a new consultation procedure with a view to amending the Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA) yet again. The latest targets to come into the sights of the authorities are “advisors”: lawyers, notaries, tax specialists and even accountants if they provide certain services, in particular company and trust creation, management

At the end of April, the Council of States Legal Affairs Committee decided to follow its National Council counterpart and pass a committee motion requiring the government to prepare a bill to introduce trusts into internal Swiss law. As readers will recall, a trust is a legal relationship created when a settlor uses a trust

Last Wednesday, the Swiss Federal Council opened a consultation (lasting until 24 April 2018) into discontinuing bearer shares in Swiss companies limited by shares not quoted on the stock exchange. The draft bill will be debated by parliament in autumn 2018. If it becomes law, existing bearer shares will be converted automatically into registered shares.

CROCE & Associés SA wishes you and your loved ones Happy Holidays and a New Year filled with health, peace and happiness. We look forward to seeing you again in January 2018.

From January 2018, the Swiss Financial Market Infrastructure Act (RS 958.1, FMIA) which came into force in early 2016, will require participants admitted to a trading venue (Swiss securities dealers, foreign participants authorised by the FINMA, etc.) to report all the information required for the transparent trading of securities. Similar requirements are already in place