Federal Act
on the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority
(Financial Market Supervision Act, FINMASA)

¹ The staff and the man­age­ment bod­ies must ob­serve secrecy on of­fi­cial mat­ters.

² The duty of secrecy con­tin­ues to ap­ply after ter­min­a­tion of em­ploy­ment or mem­ber­ship of a man­age­ment body of FINMA.

³ The staff and the in­di­vidu­al mem­bers of the man­age­ment bod­ies of FINMA may not without au­thor­isa­tion from FINMA dis­close in evid­en­tiary hear­ings and in court pro­ceed­ings as parties, wit­nesses or ex­pert wit­nesses mat­ters that have come to their know­ledge in the course of their du­ties and that re­late to their of­fi­cial tasks.

⁴ Of­fi­cial secrecy ap­plies to all FINMA agents (audit agents, in­vest­ig­at­ing agents, re­struc­tur­ing agents, li­quid­at­ors, ad­min­is­trat­ors in bank­ruptcy).³⁵