{"id":16708,"date":"2015-10-03T10:37:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T09:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fbt-avocats.ch\/regulation-new-reporting-duties-of-swiss-and-foreign-companies-and-of-their-shareholders-effects-of-the-amendments-to-the-anti-money-laundering-provisions\/"},"modified":"2021-04-09T16:20:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T15:20:50","slug":"regulation-new-reporting-duties-of-swiss-and-foreign-companies-and-of-their-shareholders-effects-of-the-amendments-to-the-anti-money-laundering-provisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fbt-avocats.ch\/en\/regulation-new-reporting-duties-of-swiss-and-foreign-companies-and-of-their-shareholders-effects-of-the-amendments-to-the-anti-money-laundering-provisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulation &#8211; New reporting duties of Swiss and foreign companies and of their shareholders: effects of the amendments to the anti-money laundering provisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><p><div style='padding-bottom:10px; font-size:26px;' class='av-special-heading av-special-heading-h1  blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first  av-inherit-size '><h1 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Regulation &#8211; New reporting duties of Swiss and foreign companies and of their shareholders: effects of the amendments to the anti-money laundering provisions<\/h1><div class ='av-subheading av-subheading_below  ' style='font-size:15px;'><p>BSL Banking in Switzerland and Liechstenstein &#8211; October 2015<br \/>\nFr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Bensahel, Pierre-Olivier Etique<\/p>\n<\/div><div class='special-heading-border'><div class='special-heading-inner-border' ><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<div style='height:20px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_textblock '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p>The new Federal Act for Implementing the Revised Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Recommendations, adopted by the Federal Chambers on 12 December 2014 (FATF Act) introduces important amendments to the Swiss anti-money laundering and terrorist financing regulations. Most of the new provisions introduced by this law are contained in the Anti-Money Laundering Act and in the Code of Obligations.<\/p>\n<p>Since the publishing of the Federal Council dispatch on 13 December 2013, there has been much debate about laundering of tax fraud offence (i.e. the qualification of serious tax offences as predicate offences to money laundering), which constitutes one of the major novelties of the FATF Act; indeed, it poses delicate questions of implementation. Among the other themes covered by the amendments made, the rules on the transparency regarding legal entities and on the identification of the beneficial owners considerably affect the new players concerned.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div style='height:20px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_button '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<div class='avia-button-wrap avia-button-left  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_hr  avia-builder-el-last '><a href='http:\/\/fbt-avocats.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/BSL_2015_-Regulation_FBT-1-1.pdf'  class='avia-button   avia-icon_select-no avia-color-custom avia-size-large avia-position-left '  target=\"_blank\"  style='background-color:#44525f; border-color:#44525f; color:#ffffff; ' ><span class='avia_iconbox_title' >Lire la suite<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[276],"datespeciale":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-16708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-and-news","tag-bsl-banking-in-switzerland-and-liechstenstein-en","competences-banking-and-finance","auteurs-fbt-avocats","auteurs-frederique-bensahel-en","date-publication-2015-en","diffusion-medias-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbt-avocats.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbt-avocats.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbt-avocats.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbt-avocats.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbt-avocats.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbt-avocats.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbt-avocats.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbt-avocats.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbt-avocats.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbt-avocats.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16708"},{"taxonomy":"datespeciale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbt-avocats.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/datespeciale?post=16708"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbt-avocats.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}