Compliance
Compliance (regulatory compliance) means conforming to comply with relevant laws and regulations. Together with KYC Spider in Zug Eurospider has in-depth compliance know-how.
The main advantage of carefully programmed chatbots is that they offer context-based information. A good chatbot doesn’t repeat the same question and doesn’t ask pointless questions that have already been answered. These factors have certainly contributed to the current hype surrounding chatbots, which ZHAW observed in a survey of 926 people from 18 to 25 June 2018.
Eurospider developed a new compliance platform for its partner, KYC Spider, which completely reorganized its processes in line with Industry 4.0 (www.kyc.ch). Networking, information transparency, assistance systems and automated decisions revolutionize the Compliance Factory process.
Our last post discussed how to minimize false negatives to reduce risk and false positives to conserve resources. Yield refers to the percentage of high-risk customer relationships that are discovered through name matching.
Our second article about name matching and revision dealt with minimizing the risk of false negatives. This third article is about measuring the risk in practice. This is frequently done by testing two or three names, but this kind of layperson’s test has its pitfalls when it comes to compliance.
In the first part, we characterized the name matching problem. In this second part, we will discuss false negatives. According to article 13 of AMLO-FINMA, financial intermediaries must develop criteria to identify higher-risk business relationships.
Data Protection Act
The Swiss Data Protection Act underwent a complete revision in 2020, and its new version took effect on September 1, 2023, along with the new Data Protection Ordinance (DPO). The revision itself is complete, but its practical application continues to evolve. The topic of AI is particularly relevant: On May 8, 2025, the FDPIC confirmed that the DPA is technology-neutral and applies directly to all AI applications. In practice, this means, among other things, that users must know whether they are interacting with AI (transparency requirement, Art. 19), and that a data protection impact assessment is mandatory in cases of high risk—such as profiling or facial recognition (Art. 22). The Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) is drafting a consultation document on AI regulation to be completed by the end of 2026. With this, Switzerland will implement the Council of Europe's AI Convention.
