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When a regulator gains the legal authority to step inside a bank that is struggling, before a failure becomes public, that authority is called an intervention power.
Switzerland is now pushing to give its financial watchdog exactly that, along with the right to impose direct financial penalties.
Both proposals are part of a broader post-Credit Suisse overhaul of how the country supervises its banks.
What the two powers would do Intervention authority and the power to levy fines are different tools that address different stages of a banking problem. Intervention authority is about timing.
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