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Association founded to increase the cyber-resilience of the Swiss financial centre

April 5, 2022

Cyberincidents that damage the reputation of the Swiss financial centre or that could lead to a severe financial crisis pose an increasing threat.

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Prince Andrew, the banker … and a mystery £750,000 ‘wedding gift’

April 4, 2022

Entrepreneur Selman Turk is being sued by a Turkish millionairess, in a case involving a payment to the Duke of York

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Cum-Ex: Extradited tax lawyer is on trial in Germany

April 4, 2022

The tax attorney has to answer in Bonn for tax evasion.

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Skybound Wealth gains direct advice authorisation across the EU

April 4, 2022

Skybound has operations in Switzerland, the UAE, the US, the UK, and Australia.

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Zurich advisor, banks and credit firms amongst 13 additions to Finma warning list

April 4, 2022

The list includes companies that might be carrying out unauthorised or unsupervised wealth management and banking services, having provided insufficient or falsified information to Finma, leading to inconclusive investigation results.

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Are Hong Kong tax incentives for family offices ‘too little, too late’? Some lawmakers think so

April 4, 2022

It maybe too late as Singapore has offered tax waivers since 2020, lawmaker for accountancy constituency says

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Credit Suisse Faces a Menacing AGM

April 1, 2022

Last year was a turbulent one ending in a loss and there are several items on the agenda released yesterday that could potentially face a great deal of criticism from shareholders.

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Finma license for women team and AI wealth managers

April 1, 2022

Wenzinger Finanz AG from Affoltern am Albis and Zurich-based Smart Wealth have recently received official approval from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority Finma as asset managers.

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Julius Baer is appealing in France

April 1, 2022

This in connection with large-scale trickery with French VAT

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Standardized format released to support reporting on digital platform sellers

April 1, 2022

The newly released Digital Platform Information (DPI) XML Schema may be used for the reporting and exchange of information under the original scope or the extended scope of the model rules.

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Credit Suisse excludes Greensill scandal from directors' exemptions

March 31, 2022

The bank will not seek to exempt its directors from responsibility for the Greensill Capital scandal, as shareholders call for a special audit into the collapse of its supply chain finance funds linked to the failed firm.

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10 measures to expose sanctioned Russian oligarchs’ hidden assets

March 31, 2022

The Tax Justice Network has in response published a briefing detailing 10 transparency measures that the task forces can take to cut through financial secrecy

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