FINMA’s strategic goals

The legal framework within which FINMA operates and performs it supervisory activities allows it considerable scope to establish its own priorities. Derived from its mandate, FINMA’s strategic goals set out those priorities and demonstrate how FINMA will fulfil its remit. These goals, which are reviewed every four years, reflect developments in the financial industry and the challenges they bring. The underlying strategy defined in each goal thus creates a link between FINMA’s legal mandate and its specific activities, giving the work performed by FINMA a longer-term focus. Furthermore, in "Key areas" FINMA sets out in concrete terms how it plans to implement the strategic goals over the next four years.

Strategic goals 2025 to 2028

In autumn 2024, FINMA’s Board of Directors formulated the four strategic goals for the strategy period from 2025 to 2028. These goals include:

Supervision goal: FINMA stands for preventive, effective supervision and seeks to ensure that supervised institutions conduct their business with integrity.

Resilience goal: FINMA will work to continuously strengthen the financial and operational resilience of its supervised institutions.

Framework conditions goal: FINMA will actively contribute its experience and expertise to building the basis for financial market regulation. At all levels, it will advocate for framework conditions that ensure effective supervision and early intervention at the supervised institutions.

Organisational goal: FINMA will increase its operational excellence and communicate effectively.

The wording of these four goals, which was approved by the Federal Council on 13 November 2024, and the key points of implementation are documented in the FINMA publication “Strategic goals 2025 to 2028”.