BCGE Picks Silex for Legal AI Research

Swiss AI legal platform Silex lands an enterprise deal with Banque Cantonale de Genève to power legal research across its teams.

The Geneva-based Banque Cantonale de Geneve (BCGE) selected Silex, a Swiss AI platform for legal research, to deploy an enterprise licence across several internal teams, as the bank looks to improve the quality and efficiency of its legal and regulatory work.

This deal reflects a broader shift among regulated financial institutions in Switzerland, where growing legal and regulatory complexity is pushing banks to seek AI tools built specifically for professional legal environments rather than general-purpose alternatives.

The Problem It Solves

Legal and compliance teams at banks routinely spend significant time navigating fragmented legal sources, from federal and cantonal law to regulatory circulars. BCGE identified a need for a tool that could bring these sources together with traceable, source-grounded outputs and meet the strict confidentiality requirements of a regulated Swiss bank.

Silex indexes more than 800,000 Swiss and international legal sources, including FINMA circulars, case law, soft law and doctrine. The platform claims to reduce time spent on legal research by up to 94%. It currently serves more than 700 organisations, ranging from law firms to corporate legal departments.

What BCGE Evaluated

The deployment followed a structured validation process. BCGE assessed Silex not only on functionality but also on source reliability, traceability, data protection and alignment with internal governance standards.

Silex's infrastructure hosts and processes all data exclusively in Switzerland. The platform is compliant with both GDPR and the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (nFADP). Client data and documents are not accessed by Silex and are never used to train AI models.

What the Deal Covers

Under the enterprise licence, selected professional users across BCGE now have access to Silex's legal research and knowledge workflows. The arrangement gives users access to authoritative Swiss legal sources as part of the bank's ongoing exploration of professional-grade AI tools.

Kyriaki Bongard, Co-Founder and CEO at Silex, stated: "Financial institutions operate in an environment where legal and regulatory complexity is high, and where trust, confidentiality and traceability are non-negotiable. Generic AI tools were not built for this context. Silex was designed to give legal, compliance and knowledge professionals access to structured Swiss legal sources, source-grounded answers and a security model aligned with the requirements of regulated organisations."

Growing Demand in Regulated Sectors

BCGE's adoption is part of a wider pattern. Banks, insurers, and other regulated organisations are increasingly seeking legal AI systems that deliver productivity gains without compromising on data protection or regulatory compliance.

Founded in 1816, BCGE operates over 21 branches in Geneva and has a presence in Lausanne, Zurich, Basel, Lyon, Annecy, Paris, Dubai, and Hong Kong. It employs more than 800 people and is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange.

About Silex

Silex is a Swiss AI platform for legal research, built and hosted in Switzerland. It combines structured legal data, purpose-built AI infrastructure and proprietary models designed for legal reasoning. The platform indexes more than 800,000 Swiss and international legal sources and is used by more than 700 organisations including law firms, notary offices, tax advisory firms and corporate legal departments.