|
Large Banking Groups (GB)
The Large Banking Groups department (GB) has responsibility for three different areas:
- Supervision of large banks
- The treatment of risk models from the perspective of their relevance to supervisory law
- The treatment of questions relating to the supervision of conglomerates.
As part of its supervision of the large banks the GB department assumes responsibility not only for the ongoing monitoring of the large banks, both at single-institution and group levels and also for their Swiss banking subsidiaries, but for evaluating the issuance of licences in the large bank sector.
Where risk models are concerned the main task is to check, approve and monitor the procedures of specific institutions for the calculation of capital adequacy. And ultimately this department is also mainly responsible for the implementation of Basel II in Switzerland.
The team responsible for supervising conglomerates coordinates the relationship between the SFBC and the Federal Office of Private Insurance (FOPI) in relation to both theoretical supervisory questions and the general cooperation between these supervisory authorities in the monitoring of financial conglomerates. In addition, staff in this area answer external and internal questions on cross-sector aspects. |
