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Credit Suisse to disclose 1,000 employee names to US

This content was published on Jul 10, 2014 The bank’s employees received emails and letters in recent days telling them what was happening. Like numerous other banks, Credit Suisse has had to pass on information of this kind since an agreement was reached between the Swiss cabinet and the US Department of Justice in August 2013. Mario Tuor, spokesperson for Switzerland’s State Secretariat…

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The billions for the brain battle

This content was published on Jul 10, 2014 Probably never before in human history are so many scientists studying the brain. This observation not only refers to basic biological research and neurology: related fields are also experimenting with theories and insights from neuroscience. For example, psychiatrists frame mental diseases increasingly as “brain disorders”, and engineers in information technology and robotics try to turn…

Eurowings to replace Swiss at Basel airport

This content was published on Jul 9, 2014 Lufthansa’s new CEO, Carsten Spohr, said it had been agreed that SwissExternal link would concentrate on the hubs of Zurich and Geneva. The plan is for two to four EurowingsExternal link A320s to put pressure on EasyJet, which last year flew 54% of passengers at Basel, Lufthansa said on Wednesday. Swiss had a market share…

Photovoltaic photo-op for Solar Impulse sponsors

This content was published on Jul 8, 2014 For corporate partners, how important are projects like the Solar Impulse?

European scientists criticise Human Brain Project

This content was published on Jul 8, 2014 The ten-year Human Brain ProjectExternal link, based at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in LausanneExternal link (EPFL), is largely funded by the European Union. In an open letter published on Monday, neuroscience researchers called on the EU to put less money into the effort to “build” a brain, and to invest instead in existing…

Swiss Social Democrat parliamentarian Andreas Gross at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg in April 2013.

Swiss MP urges Europe-wide citizens’ initiatives

This content was published on Jul 8, 2014 The centre-left parliamentarian, who is a major supporter but also a critic of the European Union, told the Neue Zürcher Zeitung newspaperExternal link on July 8 that the “body representing 500 million people must not only be strengthened but above all become more democratic”. In the long NZZ article he took a swipe at EU…

Greasing the wheels of energy and food supply

This content was published on Jul 3, 2014 The bank has been key in providing the financial muscle backing the global shipment of raw materials – and Switzerland is the leading location for commodity trade finance. The Swiss Bankers AssociationExternal link has calculated that in 2011 Switzerland bankrolled the industry to the tune of $1.5 trillion (CHF1.35 trillion), around a quarter of the…

Mafia millions confiscated by Bern

This content was published on Jul 3, 2014 On the basis of information from the Money Laundering Reporting OfficeExternal link in Bern, in 2005 the federal prosecutor started proceedings for money-laundering and falsification of documents against Massimo Ciancimino and two former advisers of his father, who died in 2002External link. Swiss banks pricked up their ears when they heard about money-laundering investigations against…

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