Authorised institutions

The FINMA maintains the following lists of all authorised institutions and investment funds which you may download in excel- or pdf-format:

List of authorised banks and securities dealers
List of authorised Raiffeisen-banks
List of authorised representative offices of foreign banks and securities dealers
List of licensed audit companies (banks, securities dealers, collective investment schemes and insurance companies)
List of licensed audit companies (Anti-Money Laundering Act, AMLA)
List of authorised financial intermediaries according to art. 2 para. 3 Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA)
List of authorised fund management companies, representatives of foreign collective investment schemes and distributors of collective investment schemes
List of authorised asset managers of collective investments
List of approved Swiss collective investment schemes Lists of changes
List of foreign collective investment schemes approved for distribution in or from Switzerland Lists of changes
List of recognised electronic platforms according to art. 39 CISO
List of authorised remote participants of a stock exchange, swiss stock exchanges and institutions similar to stock exchanges and authorised foreign stock exchanges
List of the recognised foreign exchanges relative to the reporting requirement
List of group companies under the FINMA Money Laundering supervision
List of recognised rating agencies
Insurance companies under the supervision of FINMA
Insurance groups under the supervision of FINMA (in German)
Mapping
Mapping SA-CH und SA-BIZ
Mapping IRB

These lists are regularly updated. However, it may occour that an institution that was recently granted a license to commence business may not yet appear on the relevant list. Similarly, an institution may still appear on a list when its license was only recently withdrawn. The institutions that have ceased to perform activities requiring an authorisation, but which are still subject to FINMA supervision, do not appear on these lists.

In case of doubt, you may contact the following address if you wish to find out whether a particular institution is licensed to conduct a certain type of business:

Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA
Einsteinstrasse 2
3003 Berne

Tel. +41 31 327 91 00
Fax +41 31 327 91 01
E-Mail: info@finma.ch