IR Digital Podcast host Jennifer Riggins speaks with Diego Benz (Lawyer & Notary) from Zwicky Windlin & Partner in Switzerland – zwplaw.ch/ Diego and Jennifer discuss what is blockchain, how you can leverage it to help your business prosper quickly and how Diego has recently found a way to register and incorporate a new business on […]
Multi-national corporations will always have a wide range of different contracts in place at any one time, be they with contractors, suppliers, vendors, clients or intellectual property licensors, among other […]
Read moreDuring its meeting on 22 March 2019, the Federal Council initiated the consultation on the adaptation of federal law to developments in distributed ledger technology (hereinafter referred to as “DLT”). This will limit risks of misuse , increase legal certainty and remove hurdles for DLT-based applications. The Federal Council’s draft serves to further improve the […]
The original of a public deed/certificate is to be produced in electronic form in future. The electronic documents will continue to be kept securely in a new national register of documents to be created. At its meeting on 30 January 2019, the Federal Council sent the corresponding Federal Act on the Creation of Electronic Public […]
Wicki Partners is proud to become the official legal advisory partner of Capacity Zurich, starting from 2019. As other major corporate partners already do in their own field of business, our lawyers will provide to Capacity Zurich and its participants pro-bono legal advisory services in all legal matters which might arise in a life of a start-up entrepreneur. […]
The new fintech license adopted by Switzerland in 2018 has gone live on 1 January 2019 (see our article “Swiss fintech License Goes Live” from December 2018). Companies accepting public deposits of up to CHF 100 million, but that do not invest or pay interest on such deposits, will be eligible to apply for the […]
In 2018, the business magazine «Bilanz» listed Zulauf Partners as Switzerland’s top-ranked law firm in the media law category. More than 7,200 lawyers, around 450 in-house lawyers, the heads of the legal departments of Switzerland’s 500 largest companies and clients of law firms were invited by the market research firm Statista to take part in […]
An initial coin offering (ICO) is a concept that has come to real prominence during the last three years, alongside the rise of blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT), as […]
Read moreIn Switzerland a new fintech license is ready to go live on 1 January 2019. The fintech license has been created by the parliament this Summer with an amendment to the Banking Act (article 1b Banking Act). The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), which is responsible for granting the license, is now ready to […]
Federal Council wants to further improve framework conditions for blockchain/DLT During its meeting on 7 December 2018, the Federal Council adopted a report on the legal framework for blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) in the financial sector. The report shows that Switzerland’s legal framework is well suited to dealing with new technologies, including blockchain. […]
In Switzerland a new fintech license is ready to go live on 1 January 2019. The fintech license has been created by the parliament this Summer with an amendment to the Banking Act (article 1b Banking Act). The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), which is responsible for granting the license, is now ready to […]
FINMA, the Swiss financial market supervisory authority, is said to have assigned a flat risk weight of 800% to cryptoassets. According to several news reports this information is included in a letter sent on October 15 to EXPERTsuisse, an association for audit, tax, and fiduciary professionals. The letter states that “FINMA has recently received an […]
