SRO-affiliated financial intermediary in Switzerland

About This Company

At closing, the buyer holds shares in an active Swiss entity maintaining financial intermediary status through a FINMA-recognised self-regulatory organisation. Swiss legislation imposes no statutory minimum capital on AMLA intermediaries affiliating with an SRO. Neither VQF nor PolyReg enforces balance-sheet capital thresholds for admission. Capital requirements only emerge if commercial operations expand into activities requiring a full FINMA banking licence with CHF 10 million minimum capital.

No prudential capital tests apply here. Instead, supervisory obligations centre on membership fees and compliance audit charges. PolyReg schedules annual membership fees between CHF 1,400 and CHF 5,800 based on scale, alongside recurring audit expenses billed at CHF 250 per hour. Education fees add CHF 600 once and CHF 400 yearly. In practice, admission fees at organisations like VQF run around CHF 2,000. Continuous SRO affiliation remains an obligatory condition verifiable on FINMA's public SRO Member Search. FINMA establishes that segregated on-chain storage for each client's virtual assets must be maintained to prevent triggering deposit-taking rules. The buyer confirms the appointment of a Switzerland-resident, operationally active board member to satisfy PolyReg's contact person requirement.