Under AMLA Art. 12 and FINMA guidance, a change in beneficial ownership, board composition, or legal domicile triggers a mandatory KYC refresh. The regulatory clock starts ticking the moment the SHAB publishes — not when your compliance team notices. KYC officers who monitor SHAB events in real time close the refresh loop in days. Those who rely on manual processes discover the gap during an examination.
Regulatory risk in KYC is not about whether a counterparty changed — it is about how quickly you documented that change. The SHAB is the authoritative source of record for Swiss legal entity mutations. Monitoring it directly compresses the lag between a triggering event and your compliance action to hours, not weeks.
FINMA and AMLA do not measure KYC refresh timelines from when you noticed the change — they measure from when the change was publicly available. A SHAB notice is that moment. A 45-day lag between publication and your CDD update is a finding regardless of when your team first became aware.
Eine Direktorensubstitution oder eine neue Zeichnungsberechtigung kann verändern, wer die Entität kontrolliert und ob deine bestehende UBO-Feststellung noch gültig ist. Wenn du dies am ersten Tag erkennst, kannst du vor der Verarbeitung neuer Transaktionen eine erneute Überprüfung gegen Sanktionslisten durchführen – und nicht danach.
A share capital increase registered in the SHAB can reflect a new investor above the 25% threshold, triggering a full beneficial ownership re-documentation cycle. Identifying this event immediately lets you initiate the refresh process — and record that you did — before the next transaction clears your books.
Three SHAB event types create mandatory or strongly advisable KYC refresh triggers under Swiss AML regulation. Each one opens a compliance window that needs to be acted on quickly.
Ein Zürcher Vermögensverwalter wechselt seinen Geschäftsführer. Das SHAB veröffentlicht es. Deine KYC-Akte zu dieser Gegenpartei wurde vor 14 Monaten zuletzt aktualisiert. Was als Nächstes passiert, hängt ganz davon ab, wann du es bemerkst.
SHAB events give you a real, specific, verifiable reason to reach out to counterparties or prospects. That changes the conversation from a generic vendor pitch to a concrete, timely compliance intelligence exchange — and it changes the reply rate from near zero to genuinely competitive.
Founders & Movers has 27 pre-configured roles. These work similarly to Compliance / KYC Officer — they all turn SHAB signals into timely, actionable intelligence for risk and operations professionals.