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Dealing with Swiss money laundering miscreants

This content was published on May 25, 2016 The crackdown BSI is being taken over by the EFG group, at which point it will cease to exist. The bank, and some of its executives, are also under investigation by the Swiss attorney general for alleged corruption regarding the 1MDB Malaysian sovereign wealth fund and the Brazilian Petrobras scandal. The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory…

Why Swiss unemployment money is paid to Portuguese

This content was published on May 25, 2016 Last year Switzerland paid unemployment benefits for 27,000 people living abroad. That’s almost CHF200 million. Most of the money goes to people living near the Swiss border in France, Italy or Germany, who have either lost their jobs in Switzerland or have resigned. Foreign workers are benefiting from an EU regulation related to the free…

High score for Swiss university system

This content was published on May 24, 2016 The ranking aims to look at a country’s whole system of higher education, and not individual institutions. 2016 is the fifth year the ranking has been published, it places countries in order based on four separate criteria; resources, environment, connectivity and output, and gives each nation an overall rating. Switzerland came sixth for resources, eighth…

Swiss physicist wins Becquerel Prize

This content was published on May 23, 2016 Ballif’s work specialises in high-efficiency solar cells that are structured like crystals, as well as the transfer of solar energy and photovoltaic External linktechnologies to industry. He also does research on materials science, solar cell manufacturing and production. He directs both the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) Photovoltaics Laboratory, and the photovoltaics (PV)…

Why Switzerland should welcome Airbnb

This content was published on May 23, 2016 Airbnb could have the answer to the woes besetting the Swiss tourist industry.

When a mountain becomes an island

This content was published on May 20, 2016 A lot of the work was done by Sissi, Heidi and Gabi, the names given by the miners to the huge tunnel-boring machines that carved out the new Gotthard tunnel. 28 million tonnes is a lot of rock. What has been done with it?

Different routes, different modes of transport

This content was published on May 20, 2016 The new short crossing time is due to the almost straight route and trains that can reach 250 km/hour (155 miles/hour). Click on the animation below to compare the times needed via different modes of transport – old and new – to cross the Gotthard from Erstfeld to Biasca. PLACEHOLDER If you want to know…

The mutation of the workforce has already begun

This content was published on May 20, 2016 After mechanisation, electrisation and automation, digitalisation is the next major advanced technology to revolutionise the world of work. A studyExternal link by Oxford University economists Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne found that in advanced economies, some 40% to 50% of jobs will either be transformed or disappear altogether. The World Economic Forum (WEF) predicts…

Switzerland slips in jobless rankings

This content was published on May 19, 2016 The rate of unemployment in Switzerland has risen from 4.4% in the first quarter of a year ago to 5.1% now – the worst figures in six years as the strong franc continues to exact its toll. Iceland (3.2%) continues to lead the field with the lowest jobless rate, with Germany, the Czech Republic (both…

The thousand-franc note is here to stay

This content was published on May 19, 2016 Between 2000 and 2014, the number of CHF1,000 bills in circulation rocketed from 20 million to 40 million. According to left-wing Social Democrat parliamentarian Margret Kiener Nellen, the proliferation of such a high-value note can make it easier for terrorists and thieves to carry cash or to launder money. In a written reply published on…

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