Swiss lawmakers want to push back public liquidity backstop
The unanimous decision by an upper house committee needs to be confirmed in parliament in its upcoming spring session and potentially delays the introduction of Switzerland's permanent PLB until after 2026.
A PLB provides cash to lenders in serious trouble, and in 2023 Credit Suisse accessed one via an emergency law before the bank collapsed and was bought by UBS.
The exact design of the permanent PLB can only be defined in the overall context of Switzerland's too-big-to-fail regulations, lawmakers found after consulting with the authors of a recent Bern University study and other academics.
While the committee "supports the PLB in principle," substantive discussions should be suspended until the Swiss government has clarified how it wants to regulate systemically important banks, it said in a press release on Tuesday.
In December, Swiss lawmakers called for stricter oversight of the financial sector after investigating the collapse of Credit Suisse and directed sweeping recommendations and requests at the government.
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