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 ...

Swiss banks have long been a haven for the wealthy. Here's how to safeguard your retirement account in a Swiss bank — and ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Switzerland will return $150 million from blocked Swiss bank accounts by the end of the year to the United States to be given to victims of convicted Ponzi scheme con artist Robert Allen Stanford, the ...

Switzerland's current account surplus shrank to 9.88 billion Swiss francs ($10.86 billion) in the second quarter of 2020, the Swiss National Bank said on Monday, less than half the 20.6 billion franc ...

On Tuesday, a federal judge granted the IRS power to issue a summons demanding that Zurich-based UBS AG, the most powerful bank in Switzerland, reveal the names of U.S. customers who may have used ...