TREE NEWS update: Switzerland’s Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has approved the country’s first retail fund that holds bitcoin directly. FINMA waived the diversification rules for the fund, but imposed strict custody and investor-protection safeguards. The approval opens direct bitcoin exposure to retail investors under Swiss regulation.
Swiss Regulator FINMA Approves First Retail Bitcoin Fund
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The significance lies less in the fund itself than in FINMA's willingness to waive diversification rules while tightening custody standards — a regulatory template that treats bitcoin as an asset class deserving bespoke safeguards rather than blanket exclusion. This directly affects Swiss retail investors and the fund's custodian, and it signals a supervisory posture other European regulators may study. The open question is whether this waiver approach becomes a repeatable precedent or remains a one-off exception to diversification norms.
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