Federal Act
on Financial Market Infrastructures and Market Conduct in Securities and Derivatives Trading
(Financial Market Infrastructure Act, FinMIA)

¹ Cent­ral coun­ter­parties may con­clude an agree­ment on the in­ter­op­er­able clear­ing of fin­an­cial trans­ac­tions (in­ter­op­er­ab­il­ity agree­ment).

² A cent­ral coun­ter­party is ob­liged to ac­cept the re­quest of an­oth­er cent­ral coun­ter­party con­cern­ing the con­clu­sion of an in­ter­op­er­ab­il­ity agree­ment, un­less the con­clu­sion of such an agree­ment would jeop­ard­ise the se­cur­ity and ef­fi­ciency of clear­ing.