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Italian money heads back to Switzerland

This content was published on Feb 4, 2012 But financial experts say the funds are mostly assets that have been declared to the tax authorities in Italy and are not substantial. According to Attilo Befera, head of the Italian Revenue Agency, huge amounts of capital are leaving the country amid uncertainty surrounding its financial wellbeing. In an interview with the “La Repubblica” newspaper,…

Formal probes launched into UBS trading losses

This content was published on Feb 3, 2012 The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (Finma) said on Friday it had started formal administrative enforcement proceedings against UBS under Swiss law, as well as launching a deeper investigation alongside Britain’s Financial Services Authority. UBS unveiled the trading losses on September 15, blaming it on a rogue trader. A day later regulators began initial investigations…

US charges Wegelin with aiding tax fraud

This content was published on Feb 3, 2012 US officials claim the bank – founded in 1741 – conspired with Americans and others to hide more than $1.2 billion (SFr1.1 billion) in client assets from the Internal Revenue Service. The announcement represents the first time an overseas bank has been indicted by the United States for enabling tax fraud by US taxpayers. Justice…

Banks suspected of cartel activity

This content was published on Feb 3, 2012 Comco said on Friday it had received information regarding potential unlawful agreements among banks. Specifically, collusion between derivative traders which might have influenced the reference rates LIBOR und TIBOR. Furthermore, market conditions regarding derivative products based on these reference rates might have been manipulated too. The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and the Tokyo Interbank…

Xstrata confirms possible merger with Glencore

This content was published on Feb 2, 2012 In response to speculation that the two were in talks, Xstrata released a statement on Thursday confirming that Glencore had proposed an all-share merger of equals. However, Xstrata also pointed out that there was no certainty of any offer being made. Glencore, which already holds more than a third of Xstrata shares, now has until…

Trade surplus reaches new record high

This content was published on Feb 2, 2012 Exports were worth SFr197.5 billion, up 2.1 per cent, with the chemical industry the biggest contributor at SFr37 billion. However, quarterly figures show that sales abroad slowed during the year, with the global financial crisis and the strong franc having an impact. Exporters were forced to make price concessions of around 5.5 per cent on…

Roche looks to personal future

This content was published on Feb 1, 2012 Last week, the Basel-based firm made an offer worth $5.7 billion for Illumina, a San Diego company that makes machines which help decode DNA at lower cost. It was ten years ago that the human genome was sequenced for the first time, at a cost of around $3 billion and a decade’s worth of research.…

Court rules against stolen Swiss data use

This content was published on Feb 1, 2012 The ruling by the Court of Cassation was published on Tuesday, and upheld a February 2011 decision by the Court of Appeal. It cannot be contested. The data was stolen in 2007 by a former employee of the HSBC private bank and handed over to the French tax authorities. The court said it could not be…

Rubik gives EU new hope for Swiss tax accord

This content was published on Feb 1, 2012 On February 2, high level experts from the 27-member block will meet in Copenhagen to revisit the debate on taxation of savings accounts. The basis of their discussion is a recently-penned Danish memo on “recent international developments” which the country believes justify new talks. A first step will be the need to convince Luxembourg and…

Credit Suisse to shed jobs in New York

This content was published on Feb 1, 2012 The Zurich-based company cited economic reasons when it filed with the department on Monday. The posts are scheduled to go between early March and May this year. Victoria Harmon, a Credit Suisse spokeswoman, told Bloomberg that the figures were part of dismissals announced last year. The bank said in November that it would be shedding…

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