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Tech conference explores future innovations

This content was published on Feb 27, 2009 swissinfo talked to Laurent Haug about what the future might hold at the start of the fourth new technology Lift conference, which brings together some 800 people from around the world. This year’s event asks “Where has the future gone?” It looks at how people predict the future and why certain things promised by science…

Banking secrecy faces an uncertain future

This content was published on Feb 26, 2009 While it has long been the subject of international criticism, banking secrecy – or client confidentiality, as the Swiss call it – has been redefined on a number of occasions. The idea is anchored in legislation passed in 1934 after the global turbulences caused by Wall Street’s 1929 crash. The question now is whether Switzerland’s…

Can Grübel repeat bank-saving trick at UBS?

This content was published on Feb 26, 2009 On Thursday, the share price of Switzerland’s largest bank shot up on the news that it had plucked Grübel out of retirement to replace Marcel Rohner as chief executive. And most experts agreed that he is the right man for the job. Shares closed trading up 16.24 per cent at SFr11.74 ($9.68). Grübel takes over…

UBS appoints Grübel as new CEO in shock move

This content was published on Feb 26, 2009 Oswald Grübel – former head of the country’s other major bank, Credit Suisse – has taken over from Marcel Rohner with immediate effect, UBS announced in a sudden move on Thursday. The news sent the UBS share price climbing by 15 per cent to SFr11.60 ($9.91) at the opening of Thursday’s trading on the bourse.…

New avalanche detonation method makes ski slopes safer

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UBS appoints new chief executive

This content was published on Feb 26, 2009 Oswald Grübel, former head of the country’s other major bank, Credit Suisse, has taken over from Marcel Rohner with immediate effect, UBS announced on Thursday. The decision constitutes the next stage in re-establishing trust in UBS and in setting the bank on the path to success, a statement said. Rohner had expressed a desire to…

Political task force to defend banking secrecy

This content was published on Feb 25, 2009 Merz will enlist the help of bankers, diplomats, economists and legal experts to help ward off attacks. Last week, Switzerland controversially handed over confidential client data to a United States tax evasion probe. Banking secrecy is a fundamental pillar of the Swiss financial centre and has helped it corner nearly a third of the world’s…

Mobutu assets stay frozen

This content was published on Feb 25, 2009 The deadline for returning the assets worth around SFr8 million ($6.54 million) to Mobutu’s family has now been pushed from February 28 to April 30 to give legal authorities more time to work on the case. On December 12, 2008 Switzerland agreed to keep the assets frozen so that a Congolese government lawyer could initiate…

Helping the eyes see all the action

This content was published on Feb 25, 2009 A recent photograph shows that French marines have been using the sophisticated Vector model from the Vectronix company, based at Heerbrugg in eastern Switzerland. “The French have several thousand Vectors and they use them for a lot of applications. Unfortunately in the past few months and years, the threat coming from terrorists or pirates has…

Machinery exporters face plummeting orders

This content was published on Feb 24, 2009 Swissmem, the sector’s umbrella body, said on Tuesday that sales and profits remained stable last year, but warned that the industry faces mounting challenges and future uncertainties in 2009. Demand from abroad for the export-driven industry fell 20 per cent last year and 34 per cent in the last quarter alone. Swissmem director Peter Dietrich…

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