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Swiss deepen IMF partnership for developing countries

This content was published on Sep 13, 2016 On Tuesday Carla Grasso, deputy managing director of the IMF, met representatives from SECO and the State Secretariat for International Financial Matters (SIF). At the heart of the discussion was Switzerland’s close cooperation with the IMF, including in the area of capacity development in developing countries, SECO said in a statement. During the meeting, Grasso…

Expanding Swiss chew over junk food tax

This content was published on Sep 13, 2016 Some 23% of Swiss people say a new tax should be imposed on food with high sugar, salt or fat content, up from 19% last year, according to a new survey by the gfs.bern institute published on Tuesday. Of those questioned, 72% want a ban on the advertising of junk food targeting children, up from…

The Swiss and negative rates: how is the experiment going?

This content was published on Sep 13, 2016 To deter investor inflows after "Frankenschock" on January 15, 2015, the Swiss central bank pushed its main policy interest rate to minus 0.75%.

Geneva mounts e-voting charm offensive

This content was published on Sep 13, 2016 Currently, only six of Switzerland’s 26 cantons offer remote online voting to a limited number of their citizens. The long-term trials with e-voting suffered a severe setback last year after the Swiss government stopped the use of an American system on security grounds. Since then, there has been a head-to-head contest between two technologies licensed…

Swiss stock exchange looks to Germany for future EU access

This content was published on Sep 13, 2016 The Zurich-based SIX Swiss ExchangeExternal link confirmed to swissinfo.ch that it had been in talks with Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) and a number of other national authorities following the UK’s June referendum to leave the EU. “We are approaching the regulators in order to guarantee equivalence for our business,” said Stephan Meier, head…

Swiss noose tightens around suspected Dutch tax evaders

This content was published on Sep 12, 2016 The judges on Monday overturned a decision by the Federal Administrative Court in St Gallen, thus clearing the way for group requests in the investigation of tax crimes. The requests involve clients whose accounts have been terminated by Swiss banks. Until recently the administrative court had rejected these requests because no names of potential tax…

University of St Gallen tops FT 2016 masters in management rankings

This content was published on Sep 12, 2016 The Swiss school came top of the list of 90 best masters programmes worldwide in 2016, winning its sixth consecutive crown. France’s HEC Paris and Essec Business School remained second and third, respectively, for the third year running. The 2016 ranking features a record 90 programmes, up from 70 in 2014. The ranking is based…

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Voting until you get the result you want

This content was published on Sep 10, 2016 Referendums, or plebiscites, are generally used in different parts of the world as an instrument of power, not democracy. In authoritarian regimes they are used as signs of strength to flatter leaders and to show off the ability to mobilize citizens, thus sending a clear signal both internally and abroad. In semi-democratic regimes they are…

How the Swiss army does its laundry

This content was published on Sep 10, 2016 The Swiss army comprises almost 130,000 active members. When they do their military service, mountains of washing pile up.

Job indicator developed to guide quota decision

This content was published on Sep 9, 2016 The indicator is based around four criteria: how difficult it is to recruit personnel, the relationship between the number of open jobs in a field and the number of people seeking jobs, how long jobs in the field remain advertised and how long people spend looking for jobs. Researchers assigned numbers to 97 professions based…

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