Swiss Banker

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  UK Top Court Gives Landmark Verdict In Ex-UBS Banker's Divorce Case

  Clive Standish, the Swiss bank's chief financial officer from 2004 until 2007, last year successfully challenged his ex-wife Anna Standish's original 45 million-pound ($62 million) award from what was then a 133 million-pound estate.

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  Several Hundred Credit Suisse Bankers To Get Termination Notices: Report

  Several hundred Credit Suisse investment bankers will soon be fired as UBS begins to implement the merger of the two banks, the Swiss weekly HandelsZeitung said Friday.

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  Switzerland Convicts 4 Bankers For Transferring Money To Putin's Friend's Account

  The accounts in the Swiss arm of Gazprombank were held by Sergei Roldugin, the artistic director of the St. Petersburg Music House, who is often dubbed Putin's cellist.

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  UBS Sends Iqbal Khan To Stem Credit Suisse's Private Banker Exits

  UBS Group AG wealth boss Iqbal Khan is working the phones and criss-crossing the globe to thwart the potential loss of top Credit Suisse Group AG bankers and clients as competitors seek to exploit the turmoil surrounding the Swiss lender.

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  Switzerland Charges Four Bankers With Helping Vladimir Putin Hide His Wealth

  According to reports by Swiss media, the amount involved in the case was around 50 million Swiss francs ($50 million).

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  Indians Have 'Rather Few' Deposits: Swiss Banks

  Indians have "few deposits" in Swiss banks compared to other global financial hubs like Singapore and Hong Kong, says a grouping of private bankers in Switzerland after its government formally ratified automatic exchange of financial account information with India on Friday. The move is meant to flush out black money, much of which is stacked in Sw...

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  Singapore Charges Two Former Banca Della Svizzera Italiana Bankers With Forgery

  Singapore police on Monday charged two former BSI bankers amid an ongoing investigation that led to the Singapore branch of the Swiss private bank being ordered to shut down in May.

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  Technology Replaces Schmoozing: The Future of Private Banking

  Swiss private bankers are turning to video games and VR to attract a new generation of sceptical clients and see off digital rivals.

• US tax probe leaves Swiss bankers afraid to travel: report

  As a United States hunt for tax evaders and their accomplices gains momentum, many Swiss bankers are afraid to go abroad for fear of arrest, one business leader said in an interview published today.

• Whistleblower Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer arrested in Zurich

  Just hours after his trial on fresh charges of breaching banking secrecy, whistleblower Rudolf Elmer was arrested in Zurich. Elmer had faced a trial in Zurich on Wednesday too, but he escaped a prison sentence for making secret data public in 2007 and threatening an employee at his former employers, with a fine of 7200 Swiss Francs.However, even be...

• No jail for whistle-blower Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer

  A Swiss court on Wednesday found former banker Rudolf Elmer, who handed over secret data to whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, guilty of breaching bank secrecy laws and handed down a suspended fine.He has, however, escaped jail in breach of bank secrecy laws.A judge said the 55-year-old former chief operating officer at private bank Julius Baer's s...

• Swiss bank whistleblower faces trial

  A former Swiss banker on Monday supplied documents to WikiLeaks that he alleges detail attempts by wealthy business leaders and lawmakers to evade tax payments.Rudolf Elmer, an ex-employee of Swiss-based Bank Julius Baer, said there were 2,000 account holders named in the documents, but refused to give details of the companies or individuals involv...

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  Black money: A Swiss snub for Advani

  Swiss bankers have snubbed L K Advani's claims saying they need more facts than accusations.