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Turn of the screw for Swiss banks

By Haig Simonian

Published: July 10 2008 23:58 | Last updated: July 10 2008 23:58

It promises to be a long hot summer for UBS and Credit Suisse, Switzerland’s two world-scale banks.

That is not because of continuing struggles with their troubled US credits, or from new threats to bank secrecy – one of assorted legal challenges from the US.

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