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Stadler Rail makes US inroads

This content was published on Nov 14, 2017 Swiss railway vehicle manufacturer Stadler Rail is building a factory in Utah, with the goal of taking the company’s US operations to the next level.

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Swiss top global wealth ranking

This content was published on Nov 14, 2017 The average fortune of a Swiss adult is $537,600 (CHF528,000), according to the 2017 Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report.

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Credit Suisse fined $135 million for malpractices

This content was published on Nov 13, 2017 Credit Suisse has been ordered to pay a fine of $135 million to US authorities after an enquiry into the Swiss bank’s practices in the currency market.

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Women and foreigners increasing in the Swiss workforce

This content was published on Nov 13, 2017 The report, published Monday by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office, analyses a decade of social and employment statistics to sketch a broad picture of the major developments in society and the workplace. Between 2006 and 2016, it found, the percentage of women “active” in the labour force increased slightly, from 59.8% to 62.8%, while the…

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Banking heavyweights jump ship to fintech

This content was published on Nov 13, 2017 Abele has founded the Tend start-up to better allow passion investors to indulge in their luxury desires. He follows Oliver Bussmann, former Chief Information Officer at UBS and now head of his own consultancy and President of the Crypto Valley Association, as a big-name defection to the choppier waters of fintech. “A lot of senior and very…

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Stories making the Swiss Sunday papers

This content was published on Nov 12, 2017 A major South American rail deal The SonntagsBlick newspaper reports that Bolivian President Evo Morales will head to Switzerland on December 14 to sign a memorandum of understanding with Swiss Transport Minister Doris Leuthard over a massive South American rail transport project. The 3750-kilometre-long Bioceánico railway line is intended to connect the Atlantic and…

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Switzerland asked to aid Mauritian inquiry into Basel-based Dufry

This content was published on Nov 12, 2017 Switzerland’s federal prosecutor’s office is handling a request for mutual assistance in an investigation involving the Basel-based duty-free group Dufry. The request was sent by the government of Mauritius, which according to reports in two Swiss newspapers is looking into the details of an exclusive agreement reached between Dufry and two Mauritian airports. According to…

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‘Direct Democracy is a safety valve’

This content was published on Nov 12, 2017 In 1998, frustrated by the lack of information on direct democratic instruments in the United States, Dane Waters founded the Initiative and Referendum Institute.

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Swiss justice minister calls for commodities crackdown

This content was published on Nov 12, 2017 Following revelations in the so-called “Paradise Papers” of questionable deals done by Swiss-based commodities companies in Africa, Switzerland’s justice minister has said that the country – historically hands-off in regulating the sector – needs new legislation to force those companies to play by the rules. “If the sector cannot manage to stick to its own…

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