FINMA uses technology-neutral supervision and expects institutions to identify, limit and monitor AI risk through governance and risk-management systems proportionate to materiality.
There is no AI-specific Swiss financial-market law. FINMA’s guidance describes observed practice and the controls it expects under existing requirements.
FINMA-supervised banks, insurers, securities firms, asset managers and financial-market infrastructures using AI.
Summarised from the primary instruments below. Open the source before relying on an obligation for legal or compliance decisions.
Assign responsibility, define risk appetite and integrate AI into the institution’s governance and risk-control system.
Assess robustness, correctness, explainability and bias according to application materiality and probability of harm.
Manage growing dependence on external models and Big Tech providers, including outsourcing and concentration risk.
The original authority remains the source of truth. Dates below are publication and effective dates, not OneBench ingest dates.
Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority
Sets supervisory observations on governance, model, data, cyber, legal and third-party risks arising from AI.