- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Kyle Brasseur2023-11-10T15:16:00
A year of significant change in the Swiss banking sector has the country’s financial regulator prioritizing new risk areas on its radar.
The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) released its 2023 risk monitor report on Thursday. Within the report, the regulator identifies nine principal risks for the financial sector, two of which are new following a tumultuous year that saw Switzerland’s largest bank acquire its second largest bank to bail the latter out of significant turmoil.
UBS completed its acquisition of Credit Suisse in June, though FINMA said it is still “intensively” supervising
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UBS Financial Services, a subsidiary of the Swiss banking giant UBS, has been fined $850,000 for failing to properly monitor transactions between its broker-dealers and third parties.
Bonus clawbacks, more fines, and a senior management regime that clearly identifies individual executives’ responsibilities for key governance areas are all options being considered by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority in response to the collapse of Credit Suisse.
France’s top court struck down a fine of €1.8 billion (U.S. $2 billion) imposed on UBS in 2021 by a lower court, despite upholding a guilty verdict related to money laundering and tax fraud in the Swiss bank’s cross-border activities.
When the DOJ released its revised Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs, it turned some heads. Tucked into a section on risk assessments was a strongly worded series of questions that appeared to shoulder compliance teams with the responsibility for ensuring the safe use of AI tools by their firms.
The Department of Justice’s Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs has made the importance of artificial intelligence governance frameworks clear, but it didn’t say what role compliance should play. Here’s the answer.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issued an alert to financial institutions about their obligations to report deepfakes, warning artificial intelligence has given bad actors additional tools in their arsenal.
