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 ...

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 ...

A growing number of wealthy Americans are opening bank accounts in Switzerland as part of the “de-Americanization” of their portfolios, according to investors and banks. Swiss banks say they have seen ...

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 ...

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 ...