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

¹ As part of its su­per­vis­ory activ­ity un­der this Act and the fin­an­cial mar­ket acts, FINMA may pro­cess per­son­al data or have per­son­al data pro­cessed, in­clud­ing sens­it­ive per­son­al data.

² It may do this in par­tic­u­lar for the pur­pose of:

a.

audit­ing su­per­vised per­sons and en­tit­ies;

b.

su­per­vi­sion;

c.

con­duct­ing pro­ceed­ings;

d.

as­sess­ing the guar­an­tee of prop­er busi­ness con­duct;

e.

as­sess­ing the con­duct of a per­son act­ing for a su­per­vised per­son or en­tity or in the fin­an­cial mar­ket; or

f.

na­tion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al ad­min­is­trat­ive as­sist­ance and mu­tu­al leg­al as­sist­ance.

³ In the case of data pro­cessing for the pur­pose spe­cified in para­graph 2 let­ter e, it is au­thor­ised to carry out pro­fil­ing, in­clud­ing high-risk pro­fil­ing as defined in the Data Pro­tec­tion Act of 25 Septem­ber 2020⁵³.

⁴ It shall reg­u­late the de­tails.