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31 Mar 2009, 6:12 am
I took a group of students from Stetson University School of Law (Florida) and the University of Lucerne Faculty of Law (Switzerland) to the United Nations and other international organiizations in Geneva. [read post]
30 Mar 2009, 6:48 pm
Participating countries are Australia, EU, South Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, the U.S., Japan, and Canada. [read post]
30 Mar 2009, 2:13 pm
Last fall Stanford had told several people that the money from the Libyans was invested in accounts at Stanford Financial Group's former office in Switzerland. [read post]
29 Mar 2009, 6:06 am
Now that bankers have joined lawyers as some of the most vilified, hated and disrespected professions around the world, some are starting to wonder if they should ever be forgiven for ruining the global financial markets, not to mention the lives of many ordinary people who are now paying for the way that bankers and their kind ‘ruled the world & lives' with money which was not theirs … (no,… [read post]
26 Mar 2009, 4:44 pm
Apparently export violations in Switzerland are only slightly more serious than speeding tickets. [read post]
26 Mar 2009, 4:03 pm
Essentially, the top 1% of the population already in the year 2000 earned nearly double as much income as it did in 1982, while the bottom 80% of the population earned 16% less than it did 20 years previous.This pattern of wealth misappropriation by the upper classes in America has been going on for quite some time now and the current financial credit crisis can in a Franz Kafka like way be viewed as the point in time when the paying public had been bled so bone dry that the entire mercenary system… [read post]
26 Mar 2009, 1:30 pm
Private banks in Switzerland have started to ban their top executives from traveling outside the country, even to France and Germany, because of fears they will be detained as part of a global crackdown on tax evasion and bank secrecy. [read post]
25 Mar 2009, 4:11 pm
The son of Sicilian immigrants, he was a bomber pilot who was shot down in the North Sea during WWII, was one of the POWs who inspired The Great Escape, and eventually made his way to Switzerland and Italy. [read post]
23 Mar 2009, 12:04 am
Haven't been to Switzerland yet (oddly enough, as I've been to every country surrounding it) and never would have considered rural Albania. [read post]
22 Mar 2009, 3:04 am
Mira Burri (left) as a guest blogger.Mira is a Senior Research Fellow at the World Trade Institute, an interdisciplinary research center in Bern, Switzerland, and is also an adjunct lecturer in international media law at the University of Bern. [read post]
21 Mar 2009, 5:50 am
Madoff had hidden assets in Switzerland. [read post]
19 Mar 2009, 9:20 am
Leverage ratio The suggestion that we should follow Canada, the US and Switzerland in having a leverage ratio is wrong-headed, however. [read post]
19 Mar 2009, 6:37 am
Federal authorities have widened their criminal investigation into UBS concerning offshore tax fraud to include independent lawyers and accountants from Switzerland and the United States who worked with the bank, according to people briefed on the matter.The expanded investigation is now focusing on several individuals in Geneva and Zurich and centers on three Swiss citizens whom prosecutors suspect of having worked with private bankers at UBS to help wealthy American clients set up… [read post]
18 Mar 2009, 10:19 am
The programme is looking extremely good, but I am biased because I am chuffed at being in the last panel with Lilian Edwards and TJ McIntyre.The keynote speakers are:Professor Bartha Maria Knoppers, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada"Population Biobanks: International Collaboration and Access"Professor Jon Bing, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway"The computerisation of legal decisions"Mr Antony Taubman, World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva, Switzerland… [read post]
18 Mar 2009, 1:02 am
The Issues Paper also looks at various approaches to group-wide solvency assessment and supervision, and compares the regulatory approaches of Australia, Canada, Japan, the European Union (under Solvency I and Solvency II), Switzerland and the United States (with respect to the NAIC).Click here to view a copy of the entire Issues Paper. [read post]
17 Mar 2009, 9:01 pm
.'"... 1950, the Belgian government collapsed following a referendum favoring the return, from exile in Switzerland, of King Leopold III. [read post]
14 Mar 2009, 2:03 am
Unlike many other countries, Switzerland [read post]
13 Mar 2009, 10:54 pm
The move came a couple months after a similar grant in the neighboring Canadian province of Manitoba.... 1728, a 15 year old named Jean-Jacques Rousseau fled his native city of Geneva for the Annecy, France, home of Françoise-Louise de Warens (left), 28, who herself had emigrated from Switzerland. [read post]
13 Mar 2009, 1:20 pm
The Swiss government bowed to pressure on Friday and agreed to exchange information on suspected cases of tax evasion, but it maintained that its principle of banking secrecy was intact. [read post]
13 Mar 2009, 12:47 pm
Several European states, most notably Switzerland and Portugal, have indicated willingness to accept a limited number of former detainees and a number of other European states such as Ireland, France and Hungary may yet be persuaded to the same. [read post]
