Cyber resilience can become one of the financial centre’s most valuable assets

The third General Assembly of the Swiss Financial Sector Cyber Security Centre (Swiss FS-CSC) took place today, Wednesday 4 June 2025, in Solothurn. Alongside the official business, attention focused on the cyber security implications of artificial intelligence. The consensus was that here as elsewhere, the kind of full-scale cooperation between the sector and the authorities that the Swiss FS-CSC exemplifies is key.

Three years on from the foundation of the Swiss FS-CSC, its public-private partnership approach has proven essential to the cyber resilience of the financial centre and Switzerland as a business location. Other sectors are now benefiting from the association’s pioneering collaboration in this area.

Cyber resilience is vital to the stability of the financial market, market participants and the economy as a whole. In his speech, Swiss FS-CSC President August Benz argued that if the financial sector continues to build effective defences against cyber risks, cyber resilience can become one of the most valuable assets of the Swiss and Liechtenstein financial centre.

The accompanying event focused on artificial intelligence and its impact on cyber security. The experts on the panel agreed that the financial sector must be at the forefront of deploying new technologies such as AI and managing them responsibly. In their view, the big challenge is to be innovative and exploit the opportunities of AI while at the same time anticipating risks that are difficult to foresee.

**Picture:** The Association Board of the Swiss FS-CSC (from left): Treasurer Marc Etienne Cortesi, President August Benz, Vice President and Executive Officer Alexandra Arni and Board member Gabor Jaimes.

**Picture:** The panel (from left): moderator Lukas Mäder, technology journalist at the NZZ, Florian Widmer, Head of Cybersecurity and Technology Risks, Pictet Group, Marko Hartwig, EMEA Chief Information Security Officer, Zurich Insurance Group, and Keynote speaker Mauro Vignati, cybercrime and cyber war expert, Bern University of Applied Sciences, ETH Zurich, ICRC.

About Swiss FS-CSC

The Swiss FS-CSC association is a public-private partnership that aims to improve the resilience of the financial sector against cyber risks – known as cyber resilience – and to foster partnership between financial institutions and authorities on strategic and operational issues.
Founded in Zurich on 5 April 2022, the association has more than 170 members, including banks, insurers and re-insurers, the Swiss National Bank (SNB), SIX, securities firms and industry associations. The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the State Secretariat for International Finance (SIF) support it as affiliates and are represented on its important committees.

Please direct enquiries and questions to:

Alexandra Arni
Executive Officer
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Isabelle Pryce
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