Swiss Bank Accounts and Investment Management: Your Own Completely-Legal, Super Safe, Tax-Free Offshore Account -- And Not Even the IRS Has to Know
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Paris - An employee for the Swiss bank HSBC in Geneva stole data from thousands of secret bank accounts and handed the information to French tax-fraud investigators, the daily Le Parisien reported Wednesday. This alleged data theft may have been the ...
Financial Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
The government says that it may have used stolen details of Swiss bank accounts held with HSBC to launch a crackdown on French tax evaders earlier this year
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
ZURICH/PARIS (Reuters) - HSBC Holdings said an ex-employee stole client data from its Swiss private bank's headquarters in 2006 and 2007, a new breach of Swiss bank secrecy, although fewer than 10 clients were involved.
Rantburg (Free subscription) | yesterday
[Dawn] A Supreme Court bench hearing petitions against the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) questioned the chairman of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Wednesday about alleged laundered money lying frozen in a Swiss bank and the amount spent by the state on the case, but was disappointed by the answers. 'Not a single confidence-inspiring answer has been given,' Justice...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
ZURICH (Reuters) - HSBC Holdings Plc said an ex-employee stole client data from its Swiss private bank's headquarters in 2006 and 2007, a new breach of Swiss bank secrecy, even though less than 10 clients are involved.
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The state is asking Ohio taxpayers with income stashed in Swiss bank accounts to come forward in return for a break on penalties.
Talk Islam (Free subscription) | yesterday
Alternate take on the Swiss Ban on Minarets from Islamabad Blogger …The request of the Turkish minister to pull out deposits from Swiss banks is not going to work. We can defeat extremists by convincing the people of Switzerland that Islam is not related to violence. Those who justify violence in the name of Islam are [...] a
boyd8df8r | 12/07/2009
ZURICH, Switzerland - The Swiss bank Credit Suisse has signed a 10-year sponsorship with Roger Federer. The bank says it will make a "significant annual contribution" to the Roger Federer Foundation. The charity was founded by the tennis star to help disadvantaged children in Africa. Credit Suisse declined to say how much the deal is worth or how much would go to Federer's
The Business First of Columbus (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
The state is giving Ohioans with undisclosed income in Swiss bank accounts the next three months to come clean and lower what could later become stiff penalties.
slevin206nl | 12/05/2009
ZURICH, Switzerland - The Swiss bank Credit Suisse has signed a 10-year sponsorship with Roger Federer. The bank says it will make a "significant annual contribution" to the Roger Federer Foundation. The charity was founded by the tennis star to help disadvantaged children in Africa. Credit Suisse declined to say how much the deal is worth or how much would go to Federer's
My World Earth (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
Minarets in Swiss. Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki A Turkish minister said he expected Muslims to withdraw their money from Swiss banks in response to a referendum vote that banned the construction of minarets in the country, in remarks published Wednesday. "I am certain this (the vote) will prompt our brothers from Muslim countries who keep their money and...
Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
The case of the Swiss minarets This week's ban on minarets in Switzerland, approved by 57 percent of voters, is a sign of the increasing influence of right wing parties in Switzerland's direct democracy - despite there being only four minarets in the entire country. By Sheikh Yasir Qadhi, December 2, 2009 Not a safe haven anymore New Haven, Connecticut The very name evokes images of almost heavenly...
EuropeNews (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Muslims should withdraw their money from Swiss banks in protest at a recent vote in favor of banning minarets in the country, a senior Turkish minister has said. "I am certain this will prompt our
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Turkey's Europe negotiator says Muslims should take money out of Swizerland after a "flawed decision" to ban minarets. His advice is to use banks in Turkey instead.
Islamization Watch (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Since there are so many restrictions and prohibitions on church building in the Muslim world - you have to wonder whether they are upset first and foremost by the Swiss audacity to do the same - or that their hopes for an Islamized Europe - through EU's tolerant laws - have taken a serious blow. Or is it simply seen as a good time - to tout for the banking business they feel they...
