Field notes from inside Swiss wealth management operations. Short writing on cross-border documentation, client lifecycle controls, regulatory craft, and the work of making complex things clear.
REGULATORY OPERATIONS
Documentation is never complete. It is complete for a specific jurisdiction at a specific moment in time. The technical work is real, but the harder work is mediating between three regulatory definitions of the same word without losing the audit trail.
5 min read · April 2026
Read more →FATCA / CRS
For the same Brazilian holding company holding a portfolio in a Swiss bank, you can correctly produce two different lists of controlling persons, one for the FATCA file and one for the CRS file, and both can be right. Knowing this in advance saves a real amount of remediation work.
7 min read · April 2026
Read more →PRIVATE BANKING
A meaningful share of Swiss wealth management revenue comes from LATAM and Iberian client books. The relationship managers sit in Zürich. The clients sit in São Paulo, Mexico City, Madrid, Lisbon. The documentation has to satisfy FINMA, the local tax authority, the custodian bank in three countries, and the auditor in a fourth.
6 min read · April 2026
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Short observations on Swiss banking operations, weekly. Always clear, always sourced, always written for the reader who is not already an expert.
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