Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA)

Credit Suisse crisis

Swiss weighed Credit Suisse bankruptcy before choosing UBS

Finma's Amstad rejected the suggestion that Finma didn’t intervene early or aggressively enough to tackle Credit Suisse’s problems

Banking & finance

Equity holders will absorb losses before holders of AT1 and Tier 2 capital instruments: MAS

MAS says it intends to stick to the hierarchy of claims in liquidation if it needs to exercise its powers to resolve an FI.

1MDB Watch

BSI’s $131 mil penalty 'incomprehensible' as Finma rebuked

(Dec 3): A Swiss court threw out a 95 million Swiss franc ($131.3 million) penalty imposed on BSI Bank over its ties to the 1MDB scandal, calling the financial regulator’s calculation of the fine “incomprehensible.”

Swiss regulator raps Credit Suisse for anti-corruption failings

ZURICH (Sept 17): Credit Suisse will be overseen by an independent monitor after failing in its duty to combat corruption in cases linked to soccer body Fifa and Venezuelan and Brazilian state oil companies, Swiss finance industry watchdog Finma said on M

DBS, UBS react to MAS penalties arising from 1MDB investigation

SINGAPORE (Oct 11): DBS Bank and UBS Singapore have issued their responses to the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) announcement this morning which revealed that the banks have been found to have breached the MAS’s anti-money laundering (AML) co

Falcon Bank: Singapore branch shutdown regrettable, but confidence in future remains

SINGAPORE (Oct 11): Falcon Bank has issued a statement saying it is “confident about its future” after today’s earlier announcement of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) decision to withdraw the merchant bank status of Falcon Bank’s Sin

1MDB Watch

MAS shuts down Falcon Bank, imposes penalties on DBS and UBS in 1MDB crackdown

SINGAPORE (Oct 11): The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is withdrawing the merchant bank status of Falcon Bank’s Singapore branch for its “serious failures in anti-money laundering (AML) controls and improper conduct” by senior management at i

1MDB Watch

DBS too comes under MAS anti-money laundering probe

SINGAPORE (July 18): DBS Group is also under scrutiny by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to determine whether it broke anti-money laundering rules in handling transactions linked to scandal-hit Malaysian state fund 1MDB, three people with knowle
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