FINMA’s costs are financed in full by the institutions supervised via the fees and supervisory duties levied. The basis for this is Article 15 of the Federal Act on the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMASA). The financing models of the merged authorities have been combined and, where necessary, adapted to suit the new Authority.
The fees will be charged to the supervised institutions individually and, in particular, based on rulings and supervisory procedures. In contrast, supervisory duties cannot be charged individually and may only be attributed on a group basis. The level of supervisory charges attributable to the group of supervised institutions will be appropriately divided over the individual parties, as far as possible on a ‘user pays’ basis.