March 4, 2015 - UBS Whistle-Blower Says Bank Has ‘Global’ Issue With Tax Evaders
“They’ve been doing it in every market: the Greek market, the Spanish market, the Italian market, the Scandinavian market, the German -- I can go on and on, you
March 4, 2015 - Swiss party criticises prosecutor, regulator over handling of HSBC
The Social Democratic Party on Tuesday accused Switzerland's attorney general of looking the other way on alleged wrongdoing at HSBC, and said that financial wa
March 2, 2015 - Foreign Real Estate Is the New Swiss Bank Account
Financial privacy is essentially dead. I think it’s only prudent to assume that sooner or later all the details of your financial life will come to rest in a g
February 23, 2015 - The Rich Hide an Estimated 21 Trillion in Offshore Accounts
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February 18, 2015 - Whistleblower Adds to UBS’s Tax Woes in France
Last Friday, Mr. Birkenfeld filed a motion for permission to travel to France to aid the investigation underway there, and noted that he’d received a related su
February 18, 2015 - Birkenfeld to testify against UBS in France
UBS arch-nemesis Bradley Birkenfeld could again hurt his former employers by testifying in a French tax evasion probe, according to one tax lawyer. The whistleb
February 18, 2015 - U.S. Whistleblower Summoned To Testify In UBS Case In France
A former UBS AG banker who helped U.S. authorities prosecute the Swiss bank in a tax fraud case has asked for permission to travel to France to comply with a su
February 18, 2015 - Swiss police raid HSBC's Geneva office
Swiss prosecutors have searched offices of the Geneva subsidiary of HSBC bank in an inquiry into alleged money-laundering.
February 13, 2015 - Bank Whistleblower: I Tipped Off Taxmen In 2008
Herve Falciani, the man who exposed a tax scandal at HSBC by leaking thousands of account details from a Geneva branch, says he first raised concerns about susp
February 12, 2015 - UK may follow U.S. lead if pursues HSBC over tax
British authorities may follow a trail set by their U.S. counterparts in investigating allegations that HSBC's Swiss private bank helped its customers dodge tax
February 9, 2015 - UBS Said to be under New U.S. Probe for Aiding Tax Evasion
he new investigation, which comes six years after the bank resolved a separate tax-evasion case with the Justice Department, focuses on bearer securities, which
February 9, 2015 - Leaked files implicate over 6,000 Israelis in massive bank scandal Read more:
Some $10 billion held in Israeli-linked accounts at Swiss branch of HSBC bank,
February 9, 2015 - US government faces pressure after biggest leak in banking history
The US government will come under intense pressure this week to explain what action it took after receiving a massive cache of leaked data that revealed how the
February 9, 2015 - HSBC helped conceal $100 billion in Swiss accounts - report
Global banking giant HSBC for years catered to a motley crew of weapons dealers, tax evaders, tin-pot dictators and celebrities, using its private Swiss arm to
February 2, 2015 - Julius Baer CEO confident of resolving U.S. tax case in 2015
"We still don't have any news for you on this topic but I am confident that this is now, once and for all, a 2015 topic," Julius Baer Chief Executive Boris Coll