1 FINMA shall inform the SNB of authorisation requests submitted by central counterparties, central securities depositories, payment systems and those DLT trading facilities that provide central custody, clearing or settlement services.15
2 After consulting FINMA, the SNB shall designate by way of an order the systemically important financial market infrastructures and their systemically important business processes in accordance with Article 22. It shall also define by way of an order which special requirements in accordance with Article 23 the individual systemically important financial market infrastructures have to fulfil and shall assess their compliance.
3 If a systemically important financial market infrastructure fulfils the special requirements, FINMA shall grant authorisation if the other authorisation conditions are also met.
4 FINMA shall approve a systemically important financial market infrastructure's stabilisation plan in accordance with Article 24 after consulting the SNB.
5 If the SNB concludes that a financial market infrastructure is not systemically important, it shall inform FINMA. If the general authorisation conditions are met, FINMA shall grant authorisation.
6 The procedure applies by analogy to requests for recognition submitted by foreign central counterparties.
15 Amended by No I 10 of the FA of 25 Sept. 2020 on the Adaptation of Federal Law to Developments in Distributed Ledger Technology, in force since 1 Aug. 2021 (AS 2021 33, 399; BBl 2020 233).