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  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    FT Wealth
    Long shadow of Russian money raises tricky questions for Swiss bankers

    How will the war in Ukraine reshape ties with some of the sector’s most lucrative clients?

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    LexChinese business & finance
    Switzerland/China IPOs: brand, not depth is the lure of ‘new New York’ Premium content

    Alpine nation has relaxed audit requirements and a reputation for financial sophistication

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Swiss National Bank
    Swiss central bank surprises with first interest rate rise since 2007

    Franc surges on SNB announcement that benchmark rate would rise to minus 0.25%

  • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
    Inside BusinessSam Jones
    Ukraine war forces Swiss business to make choices on neutrality

    Sanctions imposed on Russia have focused debate over the country’s long-cherished economic haven status

  • Sunday, 12 June, 2022
    Credit Suisse Group AG
    Foreign suitors for Credit Suisse face high hurdles

    Switzerland’s typically liberal M&A market might make an exception for such a national institution

  • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
    Inside BusinessSam Jones
    The riddle of Russian money in Switzerland

    Low level of sanctioned funds belies assumptions that it is a treasure house of Putin kleptocracy

  • Sunday, 3 April, 2022
    Europe
    Ukraine war sparks European debate on merits of neutrality

    Countries with history of military non-engagement consider whether it is time to dump the policy

  • Monday, 28 February, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Swiss break neutrality tradition to match EU sanctions on Russia

    Country has long been seen as one of the most accommodating to Russian businesses

  • Tuesday, 22 February, 2022
    News in-depthEuropean banks
    Swiss banks’ struggles to move on from murky past hit by documents leak

    Fallout from release of details of Credit Suisse accounts threatens to spread through country’s finance sector

  • Wednesday, 9 February, 2022
    Mark Urban
    My secret second life as a ski instructor

    BBC reporter Mark Urban on leaving behind the war zones to find peace and purpose on the slopes

  • Tuesday, 1 February, 2022
    Europe Express
    A Hungarian in Moscow: Orban meets Putin on Ukraine Premium content

    Nato allies stress unity ahead of meeting

  • Wednesday, 26 January, 2022
    Inside BusinessSam Jones
    Switzerland’s crypto valley looks past cold market winds

    Zug finds itself on the front line of global finance dealing with digital assets

  • Monday, 17 January, 2022
    Markets InsightNannette Hechler-Fayd'herbe
    What large economies can learn from smaller ones

    Switzerland has benefited from a combination of smart fiscal policy, a resilient energy grid and flexible working

  • Monday, 10 January, 2022
    Andreas Utermann
    A market-based solution to the anti-vaxxer problem

    Requiring those unvaccinated by choice to pay for their Covid hospital care is more ethical than mandatory vaccination

  • Thursday, 16 December, 2021
    Sam Jones
    Despite Covid, the Swiss are reluctant to surrender the Alpine good life

    A third of the population is unvaccinated and only a tenth have had a booster

  • Friday, 10 December, 2021
    News in-depthCoronavirus economic impact
    Europe’s ski resorts hope to come in from the cold

    Winter season gets off to faltering start amid Covid curbs and memories of spring 2020 ‘superspreader’ events

  • Wednesday, 8 December, 2021
    Credit Suisse Group AG
    Credit Suisse admits chair Horta-Osório breached quarantine rules

    Banker flew in and out of Switzerland while new coronavirus curbs were in force

  • Wednesday, 1 December, 2021
    The Big Read
    Covid backlash: Europe’s populists eye opportunity

    Even before the emergence of the Omicron variant, some governments were facing resistance to restrictions

  • Sunday, 28 November, 2021
    Covid-19 vaccines
    Europe dashes for booster jabs amid surge in Covid cases

    Continent showing effects of fewer first vaccinations and slow rollout of second doses

  • Thursday, 11 November, 2021
    Covid-19 vaccines
    ‘Nein Danke’: the resistance to Covid-19 vaccines in German-speaking Europe

    Hesitancy in Austria, Germany and Switzerland intersects with anti-establishment and populist politics

  • Tuesday, 2 November, 2021
    FIFA
    Blatter and Platini face fraud charges in Fifa corruption probe

    Former heads of world and European football indicted by Swiss authorities over $2m payment

  • Tuesday, 19 October, 2021
    FT Wealth
    Alpine attraction: Switzerland is a magnet for family offices

    Institutions set up to manage the financial assets of rich families have quietly become key investors in financial markets

  • Saturday, 9 October, 2021
    FT SeriesPink Snow 2021: winter sports special
    A chef’s dream mountain hideaway

    How Fadri Arpagaus reinvented a high-altitude inn as a gourmet retreat

  • Wednesday, 6 October, 2021
    FT SeriesPink Snow 2021: winter sports special
    Five ski adventures for 2021-22

    From first descents on Baffin Island to an alternative Alpine ‘haute route’

  • Thursday, 30 September, 2021
    Tax evasion and avoidance
    US charges six Swiss bankers over tax fraud

    Executives at IHAG and consultancy for super-rich accused of helping to hide $60m through offshore scheme

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