There's a lot of cachet to the Swiss bank account. For generations, banking in cities like Zurich and Geneva has come with an air of mystery. This is a nation that fiercely safeguards financial ...

In the story, Pictet, a Swiss private bank and investment firm, said they’ve seen a “significant uptick” in American clients. The desire of HNW Americans to manage risk by moving money to offshore ...

WASHINGTON — Banking giant UBS has agreed to pay $780 million and turn over once-secret Swiss banking records to settle allegations it conspired to defraud the U.S. government of taxes owed by ...

THE UNITED States and Switzerland are in negotiations http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/12/AR2009071200892.html to settle their dispute ...

The U.S. government has chipped new holes in the secrecy of Swiss bank accounts, obtaining the names of American clients of the banking giant UBS as part of an investigation into the use of foreign ...

Offshore accounts include those of financial institutions, American celebrities. Jan. 17, 2011 — -- Former Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer handed over two computer discs detailing thousands of offshore ...

Information on 24,000 HSBC customers with Swiss accounts has been stolen, the British bank said Thursday, potentially exposing large numbers of international clients to prosecution by tax authorities ...

Movie stars, famous designers, politicians, royalty - yesterday, several news organizations unveiled the names of some of the people who opened secret accounts at the Swiss subsidiary of HSBC. As ...

According to what passes for a biography, Heidi Svenda Bernasconi, a.k.a “Miss Swiss Bank Account,” is originally from Ostermundigen, a town of 15,000 people in central Switzerland. The daughter of a ...

Yielding to IRS arm-twisting, the Swiss bank UBS is set to relinquish two extremely valuable assets: the names of 4,450 American clients accused of tax evasion, and Switzerland's reputation for ...