The Guardian perpetuated a popular and entirely incorrect myth about Swiss banking secrecy today. It said this secrecy was introduced in 1934 to protect German
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Bloomberg has reported that: Switzerland asked the U.S. not to pressure UBS for client data located in the Alpine country as investigators look into whether
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The FT has reported: Senior executives at UBS, the Swiss bank being investigated by US authorities, knew some of their bankers had acted in a
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The Australian has reported: UBS’s US operations decided on the ban earlier this month after it was caught up in a congressional enquiry into tax
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Got nine minutes? Watch this on what is happening in the US Senate hearings on super-rich tax dodgers. It’s worth it.

I have been reading the US Senate report on tax havens that focuses on LGT and UBS. I have already reported my doubts about the
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This report is typical of many tonight: UBS admitted it broke U.S. law in setting up sham offshore tax shelters for wealthy Americans and agreed
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The FT has noted that: It promises to be a long hot summer for UBS and Credit Suisse, Switzerland’s two world-scale banks. That is not
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UBS is fighting for its survival, not just in the US, but quite possibly around the world following the exposure of the corporate corruption at
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