Swiss Banks

NEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - Wegelin & Co, the oldest Swiss private bank, is digging in its heels against a U.S. criminal charge that it conspir...

* Judge dismisses case a month before trial * Former client tried to blame Swiss bank By Lynnley Browning ...

* Swiss appeal based on stability, neutrality, steady economy * Emerging markets make up for losses in "old world" By E...

Wall Street keeps shrinking. Credit Suisse will begin laying off employees in New York the second week of March, according to a company filing with...

WASHINGTON — Movie super spies James Bond and Jason Bourne use them. So do real-life presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who says he pays his ta...

NEW YORK -- The U.S. Justice Department called Switzerland's largest private bank a fugitive from justice on Friday after it didn't send any represent...

By Katharina Bart ZURICH, Feb 3 (Reuters) - The first indictment of a Swiss private bank over hiding untaxed money for wealthy Americ...

(Adds detail on attendees in paragraphs 6-7) ZURICH, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Swiss police said on Wednesday they had arrested two men suspe...

* Talks underway with Italy to find solution, Swiss finance minister says * Americans "not easy partners" in long-running dispute, she...

GENEVA (AP) — Swiss National Bank chief Philipp Hildebrand resigned Monday, acknowledging he could not prove his innocence amid a public uproar over...

* Indictment of 3 Wegelin bankers highlights ties * Inter-bank links key to U.S. tax evasion crackdown * Authorities eye...

GENEVA — After days of stonewalling, the Swiss National Bank gave in Wednesday to demands it shed light on currency trades from its chief's pers...

Three Swiss bankers were charged Tuesday with hiding more than $1.2 billion in U.S. taxpayer accounts from the IRS, by Preet Bharar, the Manhattan U.S...

U.S. authorities hunting in Swiss banks for suspected tax cheats have a new weapon in their arsenal: an arcane but aggressive legal maneuver more ...

UBS will sacrifice its place in the top ten investment bank rankings as stricter capital rules force it to give up riskier fixed-income business, ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - U.S. officials are offering 11 Swiss banks, among them Credit Suisse , a deal that allows them to avoid criminal prosecution in...

GENEVA -- A study by consultancy firm Booz & Co. claims Swiss banks stand to lose 1.1 billion Swiss francs ($1.2 billion) in annual revenue because of...

A former senior UBS banker who helped the U.S. government expand its crackdown on offshore tax evasion was sentenced to five years probation Frida...

The Swiss cabinet approved on Wednesday an amendment to a tax agreement with the United States to ensure that bank clients are properly informed a...

Credit Suisse AG, Switzerland's second-largest bank, has begun notifying certain U.S. clients suspected of offshore tax evasion that it intends to...

Credit Suisse (CSGN.VX) will cut another 1,500 jobs and scale back its capital-guzzling investment banking business as it seeks to meet tough new ...

An international drive against offshore tax havens has reaped nearly 14 billion euros from would-be tax evaders, the Organization for Economic Coo...

A Swiss parliamentary commission is edging toward accepting a government proposal that would allow the transfer of bank clients' data to the Unite...

ZURICH - Swiss banks accused of helping Americans to dodge taxes have been summoned to a parliamentary committee hearing this week at which they w...

ZURICH (Reuters) - UBS kicked off an internal investigation into the catastrophic failure of its risk systems after rogue equity trades cost the S...