Volume: 9 Issue: 4
(April 2012)
Keywords:
banking
secrecy
evolving
landscape
banking
secrecy
laws
switzerland
current
developments
regard
swiss
banking
secrecy
remain
one
hottest
topics
Jurisdictions:
Switzerland
UK
US
The current developments with regard to Swiss banking secrecy remain one of the hottest topics in Switzerland from a political as well as from a legal point of view. The proposed changes to the Swiss Anti-Money Laundering Act and the recent decision of the Swiss Federal Administrative Court regarding the administrative assistance process, only highlight a string of numerous complex and simultaneously overlapping developments, whose final conclusion remains open at the moment. Dr. Georg G. Gotschev, Attorney at Law at Gotschev Law Firm, rounds off the latest developments.