Where necessary, FINMA enforces supervisory law using coercive measures under administrative law. Find out about its powers, approach and measures for dealing with violations of the law here.
Supervision of the financial sector calls for a strong, competent, independent regulator. This brochure illustrates how FINMA meets these criteria.
At the Insurers’ Day in St. Gallen, the FINMA CEO emphasised the importance of differentiated, risk-based and proportionate supervision that takes into account insurers’ business models, risk profiles and size.
FINMA's Annual Report highlights its supervisory activities in 2025. In addition, FINMA is providing data on enforcement cases in a database as well as statistics on its website.
As the independent and integrated supervisory authority in one of the most important global financial centres, FINMA is responsible for the supervision of a very large and diverse population of financial institutions.
FINMA Chair Marlene Amstad at the Singapore FinTech Festival 2025 on the strategic priorities for supervisory authorities in the age of SupTech.
In its new Risk Monitor, FINMA reveals where it sees the greatest risks for the Swiss financial centre.
Based on the Federal Council parameters, which were published on 6 June, FINMA sets out its view of how the Federal Government’s parameters should be implemented in a targeted.
Client protection
FINMA protects financial market clients.
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Risk and resilience
FINMA identifies risks proactively and exercises preventive supervision.
Proportionality
FINMA’s supervision is proportionate, risk-oriented and technology-neutral.
Tools
FINMA needs the right tools to protect the financial market.
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