WASHINGTON — Banking giant UBS has agreed to pay $780 million and turn over once-secret Swiss banking records to settle allegations it conspired to defraud the U.S. government of taxes owed by ...

There's a lot of cachet to the Swiss bank account. For generations, banking in cities like Zurich and Geneva has come with an air of mystery. This is a nation that fiercely safeguards financial ...

THE UNITED States and Switzerland are in negotiations http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/12/AR2009071200892.html to settle their dispute ...

Movie stars, famous designers, politicians, royalty - yesterday, several news organizations unveiled the names of some of the people who opened secret accounts at the Swiss subsidiary of HSBC. As ...

The spotlight is shining on Swiss banks and offshore investment accounts. The strategy of wealthy Americans moving assets overseas in search of safety and stability in uncertain times is back in vogue ...

A growing number of wealthy Americans are opening bank accounts in Switzerland as part of the “de-Americanization” of their portfolios, according to investors and banks. Swiss banks say they have seen ...

Offshore accounts include those of financial institutions, American celebrities. Jan. 17, 2011 — -- Former Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer handed over two computer discs detailing thousands of offshore ...

A federal grand jury indicted a Swiss lawyer, saying he conspired to defraud the United States. Felix Mathis helped Dr. Andrew Silva of Sterling, Va., hide a Swiss bank account in a tax-fraud scheme, ...

According to what passes for a biography, Heidi Svenda Bernasconi, a.k.a “Miss Swiss Bank Account,” is originally from Ostermundigen, a town of 15,000 people in central Switzerland. The daughter of a ...

A sign sits on display outside the headquarters of the Swiss National Bank (SNB) in Bern, Switzerland, on Thursday, March 8, 2012. "We expect the loan the SNB has granted to the UBS stabilization fund ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Switzerland's private bankers fear cash-strapped Latin American countries pursuing billions of dollars in unpaid taxes will push the region's wealthy to pull cash from their Swiss ...

Yielding to IRS arm-twisting, the Swiss bank UBS is set to relinquish two extremely valuable assets: the names of 4,450 American clients accused of tax evasion, and Switzerland's reputation for ...