Switzerland

Tax & Regulation | 16 Oct 13

The Swiss government is to introduce new laws to ease the sharing of tax information with other states in line with OECD standards, but is to keep in place measures which mean targets must be notified of an investigation.

Tax & Regulation | 11 Oct 13

The Swiss government has signalled that it is close to starting a renegotiation of its savings tax agreement with the European Union and also indicated a more open stance to wider cooperation on tax matters with the rest of the world.

North America | 10 Sep 13

Switzerland moved a step closer on Monday to providing bank data to the American tax authorities, after the Swiss House of Representatives voted in favour of allowing Swiss banks to comply with the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act.

Asia | 15 Aug 13

Unigestion, a Geneva-based institutional asset manager with more than $13bn in assets under management, has received a capital markets services licence from the Singaporean regulator, as it moves to expand its presence in Asia.

Europe | 20 Jun 13

By a two-to-one margin, Switzerland's lower house of Parliament voted late on Wednesday to reject a draft law that would have allowed the country's banks to pass depositors' information to US authorities.