## Switzerland: Financial Sector Assessment Program: Factual Update: Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision

_IMF Staff Country Reports, June 13, 2007_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: June 13, 2007
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451807332.002

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### Overview
- Presents a factual update of the 2001 assessment of Switzerland’s compliance with the 1997 Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision (BCP).
- Includes a follow-up on implementation of the 2001 BCP assessment undertaken in the context of the original Financial Sector Assessment Program in 2001.
- Publication date: June 13, 2007.

### Major findings
- The Swiss Federal Banking Commission (SFBC) has made impressive progress both organizationally and to its supervisory practices to strengthen Switzerland’s banking supervisory framework.
- The SFBC has significantly improved its outreach to foreign supervisors.
- The SFBC has significantly improved its collaboration with external auditors and the industry.

### Subject areas and keywords
- Subject: Auditing; Banking; Basel Core Principles; Basel II; External audit; Financial regulation and supervision; Financial Sector Assessment Program; Financial sector policy and analysis; Public financial management (PFM).
- Keywords: Auditing; auditor; authority; bank; Basel Core Principles; Basel II; budgetary independence; CR; External audit; Financial Sector Assessment Program; ISCR; licensing regime; risk profile; SFBC Banking ordinance; SFBC circular; SFBC meeting frequency; SFBC staff.

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