GenevaLunch » banker http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 25 May 2012 22:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Regulators reported to be ready to go after UBS in trade scandalhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/30/regulators-reported-to-be-ready-to-go-after-ubs-in-trade-scandal/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/30/regulators-reported-to-be-ready-to-go-after-ubs-in-trade-scandal/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:57:58 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66127 GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – UK and Swiss banking regulators are reported by the Wall St Journal to be planning to fine Swiss bank UBS for shortcomings in supervising risky trades. The newspaper cites “people close to the situation”, noting that regulators from the two countries will complete their investigations by mid-February into the $23. billion loss [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/30/regulators-reported-to-be-ready-to-go-after-ubs-in-trade-scandal/feed/ 0 Swiss head banker Hildebrand: SNB publishes internal regulations, PwC (update) reporthttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/04/swiss-head-banker-hildebrand-snb-publishes-internal-regulations-pwc-report/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/04/swiss-head-banker-hildebrand-snb-publishes-internal-regulations-pwc-report/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:40:26 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64957 GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss National Bank Wednesday took the unusual step of publishing its internal regulations governing the private financial activities of its senior management, as part of efforts to clear chairman Philipp Hildebrand’s name in the face of accusations he profited from his position. By comparison, other central banks tend to make public [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/04/swiss-head-banker-hildebrand-snb-publishes-internal-regulations-pwc-report/feed/ 0 Zurich banker to continue helping IRS: 5 year suspended dealhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/21/zurich-banker-to-continue-helping-irs-5-year-suspended-deal/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/21/zurich-banker-to-continue-helping-irs-5-year-suspended-deal/#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:43:19 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63703 GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Renzo Gadola, former UBS wealth management senior banker, was given a sentence of five year’s probation last week in Florida after he was earlier found guilty of helping wealthy Americans evade US taxes by hiding their assets in offshore accounts. It came out in a court document, “Motion for Downward Departure From [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/21/zurich-banker-to-continue-helping-irs-5-year-suspended-deal/feed/ 2 Cecile B free but banned from Switzerlandhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/10/cecile-b-free-but-banned-from-switzerland/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/10/cecile-b-free-but-banned-from-switzerland/#comments Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:44:30 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=49744 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Cécile B, as Cécile Bosshard was familiarly known during her 2008 trial for murdering Geneva banking family scion Edouard Stern, has been released from prison early on good behaviour, her lawyer told AFP news agency. The Frenchwoman had been in prison since 2005, but was sentenced in June 2009 to 8.5 [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/10/cecile-b-free-but-banned-from-switzerland/feed/ 0 Remember Jérôme Kerviel? Trial opens in Francehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/09/remember-jerome-kerviel-trial-opens-in-france/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/09/remember-jerome-kerviel-trial-opens-in-france/#comments Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:15:56 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=43216 GenevaLunch.com The media hoopla promises to be huge as the three-week trial gets underway in Paris of Jérôme Kerviel, accused of a list of crimes that includes breach of trust and unauthorized use of a computer. Kerviel is the trader who was discovered in January 2008 to have lost €4.9bn at Société Générale, before the world’s [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/09/remember-jerome-kerviel-trial-opens-in-france/feed/ 0 US, UK checking terrorist links of would-be airline bomberhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/27/us-uk-checking-terrorist-links-of-would-be-airline-bomber/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/27/us-uk-checking-terrorist-links-of-would-be-airline-bomber/#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:37:27 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=34454 GenevaLunch.com US and UK authorities are scrambling to check on possible terrorist links Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab might have to Al Qaeda, particularly in Yemen. He is the man who tried to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet with 300 people aboard 25 December, Christmas Day. Details about his background are gradually surfacing, after it became [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/27/us-uk-checking-terrorist-links-of-would-be-airline-bomber/feed/ 0 Zurich banker, Geneva-Zurich lawyer indicted in Miami: US widens Swiss banks probehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/20/zurich-banker-geneva-zurich-lawyer-indicted-in-miami-us-widens-swiss-banking-netzurich-banker-geneva-zurich-lawyer-indicted-in-miami-us-widens-swiss-banks-probe/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/20/zurich-banker-geneva-zurich-lawyer-indicted-in-miami-us-widens-swiss-banking-netzurich-banker-geneva-zurich-lawyer-indicted-in-miami-us-widens-swiss-banks-probe/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:51:31 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=25550 GenevaLunch.com Update 21 August  Miami, Florida, USA (GenevaLunch) - A banker for NZB (Neue Zürcher Bank), Hansruedi Schumacher, and a Geneva and Zurich lawyer, Matthias Rickenbach, both Swiss, were indicted Thursday 20 August in Miami, Florida on charges of conspiring to defraud the US. The two are accused by the US of helping US residents to [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/20/zurich-banker-geneva-zurich-lawyer-indicted-in-miami-us-widens-swiss-banking-netzurich-banker-geneva-zurich-lawyer-indicted-in-miami-us-widens-swiss-banks-probe/feed/ 2 And the verdict is: homicide (Stern murder trial)http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/17/and-the-verdict-is-homicide-stern-murder-trial/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/17/and-the-verdict-is-homicide-stern-murder-trial/#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:49:49 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=20493 GenevaLunch.com Update 18:05  Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch, agencies and other media) – Cécile Brossard, the murderer of Edouard Stern, has been found guilty by a jury in Geneva of homicide for killing her lover 28 February 2005. The jury will  decide Thursday on her sentence, up to 20 years in prison. The 12 deliberated whether the crime [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/17/and-the-verdict-is-homicide-stern-murder-trial/feed/ 1 Brossard, Stern murder trial update: the money, the cuckolded husbandhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/11/brossard-stern-murder-trial-update-the-money-the-cuckolded-husband/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/11/brossard-stern-murder-trial-update-the-money-the-cuckolded-husband/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:08:07 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=19930 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The drama of the trial of  Cécile Brossard for the murder of Edouard Stern in Geneva finished its first day with two surprises. The husband of the accused, a naturopathy doctor in Clarens, Vaud, told the court that he leaned his wife was having an affair with Stern only after the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/11/brossard-stern-murder-trial-update-the-money-the-cuckolded-husband/feed/ 0 Stern murder, Cécile Brossard trial will be the talk of Genevahttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/09/stern-murder-cecile-brossard-trial-will-be-the-talk-of-geneva/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/09/stern-murder-cecile-brossard-trial-will-be-the-talk-of-geneva/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:19:02 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=19806 GenevaLunch.com Swiss news weekly L’Hebdo magazine’s 2 June edition features on its cover the murder trial of Cécile Brossard, accused of killing her lover, wealthy French banker Edouard Stern, in 2007. GenevaLunch, a partner of l’Hebdo, brings you the English version in two parts, with an introduction by GL editor Ellen Wallace. French version © 2009 [...]

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