| A.I. |
Artificial Intelligence |
| ADM |
Automated Decision Making |
| AG |
Aktiengesellschaft |
| AMLA |
Federal Act on Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing of October 10th, 1997 (CC 955.0) |
| Art. |
Article |
| ATM |
Automated Teller Machine |
| BA |
Banking Act of November 8th, 1934 (CC 952.0) |
| BankV |
Verordnung über die Banken und Sparkassen (Ordinance on banks and savings banks) of 30th April 2014 (CC 952.02) |
| BGE |
Entscheidungen des Schweizerischen Bundesgerichts (Decisions of the Swiss Federal Court) |
| BTC |
Bitcoin |
| CC |
Classified Compilation of Swiss Federal Law |
| CEO |
Chief executive officer |
| CHF |
Swiss francs |
| CISA |
Federal Act on Collective Investment Schemes of June 23rd, 2006 (CC 951.31) |
| CO |
Federal Act on the Amendment of the Swiss Civil Code (Part Five: The Code of Obligations) of July 1st, 1911 (CC 220) |
| Cst. |
Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation of April 18th, 1999 (CC 101) |
| DeFi |
Decentralized Finance |
| DLT |
Distributed ledger technology |
| DLT Act |
Federal Act on the Adaptation of Federal Law to Developments in Distributed Electronic Register Technology in Federal Act on the Amendment of the Swiss Civil Code (Part Five: The Code of Obligations) of July 1st, 1911 (CC 220) |
| Dr. |
Doctor |
| e.g. |
Exempli gratia |
| EPFL |
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
| et al. |
Et alii |
| etc. |
Et cetera |
| et seq. |
Et sequentes |
| ETF |
An exchange-traded fund |
| ETH |
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) |
| EUR |
Euro Currency |
| FADP |
Federal Act on Data Protection of September 25th, 2020 (FG 2020 7397) |
| FCA |
The Financial Conduct Authority |
| FG |
Swiss Federal Law Gazette |
| FIDLEG |
Schweizer Finanzdienstleistungsgesetz |
| FinIA |
Federal Act on Financial Institutions of June 15th, 2018 (CC 954.1) |
| FinIO |
Ordinance on Financial Institutions of November 6th, 2019 (CC 954.11) |
| FINIG |
FinIA |
| FINMA |
Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority |
| FINMASA |
Federal Act on the Swiss FInancial Market Supervisory Authority of June 22nd, 2007 (CC 956.1) |
| FinSA |
Federal Act on Financial Services of June 15th, 2018 (CC 950.1) |
| FinSO |
Ordinance on Financial Services of June 6th, 2019 (CC 950.11) |
| FinTech |
Financial Technology |
| FMI |
Financial Market Infrastructures |
| FMIA |
Financial Market Infrastructure Act of June 19th, 2015 (CC 958.1) |
| GBP |
Great Britain Pound |
| GDPR |
General Data Protection Regulation is applicable as of May 25th, 2018 |
| i.e. |
id est |
| ICLG |
The International Comparative Legal Guides |
| ICO |
Initial Coin Offering |
| IFZ |
Institut für Finanzdienstleistungen Zug |
| ISA |
Insurance Supervision Act of December 17th, 2004 (CC 961.01) |
| KYC |
Know Your Customer |
| Let. |
Letter |
| N |
Number(s) |
| OECD |
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| p. |
Page |
| Par. |
Paragraph |
| pp. |
Pages |
| PRA |
Prudential Regulation Authority |
| R&D |
Research and Development |
| rec. |
Recital |
| RegTech |
Regulation Technology |
| revDPA |
FADP |
| RSDA |
Revue suisse de droit des affaires du marché |
| S. |
Seite (Page) |
| SMEs |
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises |
| SMI |
Swiss Market Index |
| U.S. |
United States |
| UK |
United Kingdom |
| USA |
United States of America |
| USD |
United States Dollars |
| VC |
Venture Capital |
| Vol. |
Volume |
| WealthTech |
Wealth and Technology |