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Migros, Graubünden banks pay US settlement fines

This content was published on Sep 25, 2015 Migros Bank will pay a fine of $15 million (CHF14.6 million) while the Graubünden bank will pay $3.6 million. The former bank had held 898 accounts for customers with ties to the US, for a total of $273 million in assets. The latter had 374 American-tied accounts with a total of $105.5 million in assets.…

Campaign posters freshened up for young voters

This content was published on Sep 25, 2015 Political abstention among young people is a familiar phenomenon in the western world. It’s often said that the issues at stake are too complex, politics lack public appeal or that political parties are out of touch with the younger generation and their way of communicating. That’s no different in Switzerland. Although there are few reliable…

Bank regulator backs new ‘too big to fail’ measure

This content was published on Sep 25, 2015 On Thursday, the House of Representatives voted in favour of doubling the current minimum leverage ratios from 3% to 6% for UBS and Credit Suisse. A leverage ratio is the amount of core equity capital the bank holds aside to cover the risk of its loans defaulting. Branson, head of the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory…

Cotton: Tajikistan’s pride and shame

This content was published on Sep 25, 2015 Swiss NGOs have been supporting the process of cotton crop diversification and farming modernisation in Tajikistan.

Value over volume

This content was published on Sep 25, 2015 It was probably the most expensive tweet in history. A 21-word missive from Hillary Clinton on Monday wiped more than $40 billion (CHF39.3 billion) off the value of US pharmaceutical and biotech stocks. The Democratic presidential frontrunner decried as “outrageous” the “price gouging” by some drugmakers and promised action to stamp it out. The next…

Banking cannot prosper within a culture of fear

This content was published on Sep 24, 2015 In today’s economy few characters deserve as much praise as the entrepreneur who stakes all in pursuit of opportunity. It takes risk to turn a technical breakthrough into a blockbuster product, to crack a new market or invent one where none stood before. Without risk taking, there can be no growth. As is so often…

Novartis offers cheap drugs for developing countries

This content was published on Sep 24, 2015 Baptised “Novartis Access” the affordable drugs portfolio is targeted at chronic diseases like diabetes, respiratory illnesses, cardiovascular diseases and breast cancer. The choice was made based on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Essential Medicines List and the drugs are also the most prescribed medicines in the 30 countries that will benefit from the reduced rates. …

Switzerland ‘wrong’ to cooperate on stolen bank data

This content was published on Sep 24, 2015 The tax authorities violated Swiss law by offering France legal assistance in tracking down tax evaders using stolen UBS bank data, a court rules.

Parliament targets red tape for businesses

This content was published on Sep 23, 2015 The House of Representatives approved a series of proposals aimed at limiting the number of legal requirements for companies and exempting firms with fewer than 50 employees from providing statistical data to the authorities. However, the other parliamentary chamber, the Senate, still has to agree to the motions. Wednesday’s debate pitted the political parties to…

Scion of a Swiss dynasty on benefits of family ownership

This content was published on Sep 22, 2015 The great-grandson of Roche’s founder discusses corporate governance and pharmaceuticals.

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