GenevaLunch » HSBC http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:10:57 +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.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no French high court rules Geneva HSBC bank data theft cannot be used http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/01/french-high-court-rules-geneva-hsbc-bank-data-theft-cannot-be-used/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/01/french-high-court-rules-geneva-hsbc-bank-data-theft-cannot-be-used/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:30:49 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66221 GenevaLunch.com PARIS, FRANCE / GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The French high court (Cours de cassation) in Paris published a ruling Tuesday 31 January that data stolen in 2007 from British bank HSBC in Geneva by its employee Hervé Falciani cannot be used by French tax authorities because it was illegally obtained. Falciani turned over the list of [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/01/french-high-court-rules-geneva-hsbc-bank-data-theft-cannot-be-used/feed/ 0 Swiss, German foreign ministers confirm tax deal soon http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/08/swiss-german-foreign-ministers-confirm-tax-deal-soon/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/08/swiss-german-foreign-ministers-confirm-tax-deal-soon/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 08:11:12 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=60482 GenevaLunch.com Swiss left out of G20 meeting ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland and Germany’s foreign ministers Sunday confirmed media reports that an agreement will shortly be announced on a tax deal. The Swiss Foreign Affairs Department said in a statement that Swiss President and Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey and German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle “both praised the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/08/swiss-german-foreign-ministers-confirm-tax-deal-soon/feed/ 1 HSBC’s massive job cuts put Swiss reductions in shade http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/02/hsbcs-massive-job-cuts-put-swiss-reductions-in-shade/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/02/hsbcs-massive-job-cuts-put-swiss-reductions-in-shade/#comments Tue, 02 Aug 2011 08:36:55 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=60291 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Europe’s largest retail bank, HSBC in the UK, announced job cuts 1 August that will reached 30,000 by the end of 2013, joining Switzerland’s UBS and Credit Suisse, as well as other large banks that have announced major staffing cuts in the past two weeks as financial markets fail to bounce back [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/02/hsbcs-massive-job-cuts-put-swiss-reductions-in-shade/feed/ 0 Times Square gets Chinese media ads http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/27/times-square-gets-chinese-media-ads/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/27/times-square-gets-chinese-media-ads/#comments Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:08:08 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=60231 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Xinhua, China’s state-run news agency, is taking over a prime piece of advertising space in New York City’s Times Square. The space has been occupied by UK-based international bank HSBC. Reuters reports that “Xinhua is leasing a 60-foot high (18-meter) by 40-foot (12-meter) wide sign on the north end of Times Square, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/27/times-square-gets-chinese-media-ads/feed/ 0 Basel synonymous with banks’ capital requirements this week http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/21/basel-synonymous-with-banks-capital-requirements-this-week/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/21/basel-synonymous-with-banks-capital-requirements-this-week/#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:28:28 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=60012 GenevaLunch.com BASEL, SWITZERLAND – The word Basel means one thing to bankers this week: new capital requirements. New regulations will mean that the world’s largest banks have to raise additional capital and Tuesday’s paper is designed in part to give investors guidelines for “calculating extra funds that the lenders must raise”, reports Bloomberg, which notes that [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/21/basel-synonymous-with-banks-capital-requirements-this-week/feed/ 0 French prosecutor claims 80,000 HSBC account holders identified http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/04/14/french-prosecutor-claims-80000-hsbc-account-holders-identified/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/04/14/french-prosecutor-claims-80000-hsbc-account-holders-identified/#comments Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:35:04 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=40217 GenevaLunch.com Numbers don’t correspond to files handed back to Geneva bank Nice, France (GenevaLunch) – The public prosecutor in Nice, Eric de Montgolfier, told a group of reporters Wednesday 14 April that 80,000 account holders have been identified, 8,000 of them French, from the files stolen from HSBC bank’s Geneva offices in 2007. The former HSBC [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/04/14/french-prosecutor-claims-80000-hsbc-account-holders-identified/feed/ 1 Who is Hervé Falciani and why do we care? http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/14/who-is-herve-falciani-and-why-do-we-care/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/14/who-is-herve-falciani-and-why-do-we-care/#comments Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:21:10 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=38590 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Europe’s largest bank made a startling confession, accompanied by an apology, to its clients 11 March: Britain’s HSBC said it had been given evidence by the Swiss Federal Prosecutor that a Geneva office employee stole data linked to 24,000 client accounts and tried to sell the information abroad. The employee, Hervé [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/14/who-is-herve-falciani-and-why-do-we-care/feed/ 2 HSBC’s timeline on bank theft shows it was out in the cold http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/11/hsbcs-timeline-on-bank-theft-shows-it-was-out-in-the-cold/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/11/hsbcs-timeline-on-bank-theft-shows-it-was-out-in-the-cold/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:49:11 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=38518 GenevaLunch.com Falciani’s theft covered several months but it is not yet clear how he did it [correction 13 March] Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The extraordinary under-assessment by HSBC of the number of bank accounts implicated in the theft of data from Geneva begins to make more sense when the timeline the bank provided to the press [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/11/hsbcs-timeline-on-bank-theft-shows-it-was-out-in-the-cold/feed/ 1 HSBC in Geneva says data stolen of 24,000, not 10 clients http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/11/hsbc-in-geneva-says-data-stolen-on-24000-not-10-clients/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/11/hsbc-in-geneva-says-data-stolen-on-24000-not-10-clients/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:40:47 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=38513 GenevaLunch.com Background, GenevaLunch Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – HSBC, Europe’s largest bank, cleared up some of the confusion that has surrounded the 2008 theft of client data from its Geneva bank and apologized to its current customers at a press conference in Geneva Thursday morning 11 March. A total of 15,000 current clients, slightly less than one-fifth [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/11/hsbc-in-geneva-says-data-stolen-on-24000-not-10-clients/feed/ 2 UK bank now implicated in US tax fraud case http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/02/16/uk-bank-now-implicated-in-us-tax-fraud-case/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/02/16/uk-bank-now-implicated-in-us-tax-fraud-case/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:11:54 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=37273 GenevaLunch.com Alexandria, Virginia, USA (GenevaLunch) - A doctor based in Virginia in the US pleaded guilty Tuesday 16 February to conspiracy to evade taxes. This is reportedly the first IRS (US tax authority) case where a non-US bank other than Switzerland’s UBS is cited as providing advice about how to evade taxes. Dr Andrew Silva of [...]

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