Ordinance
on Financial Market Infrastructures and Market Conduct in Securities and Derivatives Trading
(Financial Market Infrastructure Ordinance, FinMIO)

Art. 104 Admissible collateral for initial and variation margins

(Art. 110 Fin­MIA)

1 The fol­low­ing count as ad­miss­ible col­lat­er­al:

a.
cash de­pos­its, in­clud­ing me­di­um-term notes or com­par­able in­stru­ments is­sued by a bank;
b.
high-qual­ity debt se­cur­it­ies is­sued by a cent­ral gov­ern­ment, a cent­ral bank, a pub­lic-law en­tity with the right to levy taxes, the BIS, the In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­et­ary Fund, the ESM and mul­ti­lat­er­al de­vel­op­ment banks;
c.
high-qual­ity debt se­cur­it­ies of com­pan­ies;
d.
high-qual­ity mort­gage bonds (Pfand­briefe) and oth­er covered debt se­cur­it­ies;
e.40
shares in a ma­jor in­dex in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 4 para­graph 1 let­ter b CAO41, in­clud­ing con­vert­ible bonds;
f.
gold;
g.
money mar­ket funds;
h.42
units in se­cur­it­ies funds in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 53 of the Fed­er­al Act of 23 June 200643 on Col­lect­ive In­vest­ment Schemes, if:
1.
the units are val­ued daily, and
2.
the se­cur­it­ies funds in­vest solely in as­sets in ac­cord­ance with let­ters a to g or in de­riv­at­ives that hedge such as­sets.

2Col­lat­er­al is deemed to be high value if it is highly li­quid, has a strong track re­cord of pre­serving its value even in a peri­od of stress and can be mon­et­ised with­in an ap­pro­pri­ate peri­od.

3 Rese­cur­it­isa­tion po­s­i­tions are not ad­miss­ible as col­lat­er­al.

4 The col­lat­er­al must be val­ued anew each day.

40 Amended by An­nex No 5 of the O of 29 Nov. 2023, in force since 1 Jan. 2025 (AS 2024 13).

41 SR 952.03

42 In­ser­ted by No I of the O of 5 Ju­ly 2017, in force since 1 Aug. 2017 (AS 2017 3715).

43 SR 951.31

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