Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority

Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority

(in German) Eidgenössische Finanzmarktaufsicht (in French) Autorité fédérale de surveillance des marchés financiers (in Italian) Autorità federale di vigilanza sui mercati finanziari (in Romansh) Autoritad federala per la surveglianza dals martgads da finanzas
Agency overview
Formed	2007
Superseding agency	Swiss Federal Banking Commission (EBK-CFB)
Jurisdiction	Switzerland
Headquarters	Bern, Switzerland
Employees	583 (2023)[1]
Minister responsible	Karin Keller-Sutter, Federal Councillor
Agency executives	Birgit Rutishauser a.i., CEO Marlene Amstad [de], Chair
Parent agency	Federal Department of Finance
Website	www.finma.ch

The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA; German: eidgenössische Finanzmarktaufsicht, French: Autorité fédérale de surveillance des marchés financiers, Italian: Autorità federale di vigilanza sui mercati finanziari) is the Swiss government body responsible for financial regulation. This includes the supervision of banks, insurance companies, stock exchanges and securities dealers, as well as other financial intermediaries in Switzerland. FINMA's name and acronym are usually expressed in English so as to avoid the semblance of favouring any one of Switzerland's linguistic regions.^{[citation needed]}

FINMA was established in 2007 and succeeded the Federal Banking Commission (German: eidgenössische Bankenkommission, French: Commission Fédérale des Banques, thus EBK-CFB) established in 1934. It is an independent institution with its own legal personality based in Bern.^[2] It is institutionally, functionally and financially independent from the central federal administration and the Federal Department of Finance and reports directly to the Swiss parliament.