Apply for access to the EHP without a FINMA licence

In order to apply for a FINMA licence, you need access to the EHP via self-registration. Self-registration applies to the following forms of authorisation:

• Bank

• Foreign bank representative office

• Foreign bank branch office

• FinTech authorisation enquiry

• Credit rating agency

• Securities firm
  

• Foreign securities firm representative office
  

• Foreign securities firm branch office
  

• Fund management company
  

• Manager of collective assets
  

• Foreign manager of collective assets representative office
  

• Portfolio manager
  

• Foreign portfolio manager representative office
  

• Trustee
  

• Foreign trustee representative office
  

• DLT trading facility small with post-trading activity
  

• DLT trading facility small without post-trading activity
  

• DLT trading facility with post-trading activity
  

• DLT trading facility without post-trading activity
  

• Insurance intermediary
  

• Representatives of foreign collective investment schemes (CISA)
  

• Investment company with variable capital (SICAV)

  
  

If you wish to apply for another form of authorisation (e.g. as an insurer or financial market infrastructure), please follow the detailed instructions under Authorisation.

The EHP is accessible via the FINMA portal. In order to apply for a FINMA licence via the EHP you need to register once on the FINMA portal.

You already have access to the FINMA portal

If you already have access to the FINMA portal, sign in with your login and register your institution. To do this, use the tile for self-registration on the FINMA portal (Apply for Access) and follow the instructions.

Go to the login on the FINMA portal

You do not yet have access to the FINMA portal

If you do not yet have access to the FINMA portal, request it using the link below. After you fill in the form you will receive a confirmation email from portaladmin@finma.ch to the email address you provided. Open the link in the email and complete the registration. Then log on to the FINMA portal and submit your application via the self-registration tile (User data).

Go to registration on the FINMA portal