The Swiss National Bank is Switzerland's independent central bank, established under the Federal Constitution and governed by the National Bank Act. It conducts Swiss monetary policy with price stability as its objective, supplies and distributes cash, oversees payment and securities settlement systems, manages the country's currency reserves, and analyses developments in financial markets and the banking sector. It designates the systemically important banks that fall under the Swiss too-big-to-fail regime.
What the SNB publishes
- Monetary policy assessments and the policy rate decisions that follow them
- The Financial Stability Report, its annual assessment of the Swiss banking sector
- The SNB Research Report, working papers and economic studies
- An extensive data portal covering monetary policy, banking and the wider economy
- Annual reports, accountability reporting and sustainability disclosures
- Oversight assessments of financial market infrastructures
Why it matters for compliance teams
The SNB is not a conduct or prudential supervisor — FINMA holds that role — but its financial stability work sets the analytical frame the Swiss regime operates in, and its designation of systemically important institutions carries direct capital and resolution consequences. Its interest rate series are also the reference points embedded in Swiss loan and derivative documentation.
Seqlense DOC indexes SNB reporting alongside FINMA's supervisory material and the ECB output that shapes the environment both work in.