Nazis buy Swiss bank data for 3.5M euros

BERLIN (Reuters) – Authorities in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia have bought a CD from Switzerland containing wealthy Germans’ bank details as part of a drive to identify tax evaders, the Financial Times Deutschland said in its online edition on Saturday.

The CD contains the names and bank details of some 1,000 wealthy Germans who are customers of the Zurich branch of Coutts, the private banking arm of Britain’s Royal [...]

Swiss Bank Crackdown Accelerates As Credit Suisse, UBS Clients Raided In Germany, France

 

While virtually every European risk indicator is now being gamed to underreport the true nature of the capital flow panic on the continent, one remains steadfast: Swiss nominal yields, which as we pointed out a month ago, have become the only true indicator of liquidity stress. And as noted this morning, Swiss 2 Year bond just hit a record nominal -0.37% (which coupled with record low yields in German yields explains everything about [...]