More sustainable structured products in Switzerland

In mid-2023, the Swiss Structured Products Association (SSPA) published its guidelines on sustainability transparency. With this guideline, which comes against a backdrop of increasing regulation around sustainable finance, SSPA intends to set a minimum standard for structured products qualified as sustainable. This is a key initiative, designed to promote transparency and the integration of sustainability […]

Eco-money laundering: surveillance is getting organized.

On June 4, ESMA, the European Securities and Markets Authority, published its report on the supervision of money laundering risks. It should be remembered that, according to the European regulator, greenwashing can be intentional or unintentional, and can occur either at the level of the entity (for example, with regard to an entity’s strategy or […]

Switzerland loves cash

Lisa Desjardins answers questions from the newspaper La Liberté in connection with its article on cash.

Compliance: yesterday, today, tomorrow

Over the past 10 years, Swiss and international regulations have made the notion of Compliance a must in the financial marketplace. But what does the term really mean?

Interview in allnews.ch

Interview with Lisa Desjardins, co-founder of CLARITIS. Published Oct 28, 2021 on allnews.ch. Lisa Desjardins, co-founder of CLARITIS No one is supposed to ignore the law. But the obligations imposed by Swiss financial regulations (LBA, LEFin, LSFin, LIMF, LPCC) and international regulations (UCITS, GDPR, MIFID II ) have become a headache for financial players, who […]