January 2009

Ambitious Kuwait investment firm defaults (1/8)

SEC ignored Madoff warnings for years (1/9)

New Year's bounce for Swiss bank stocks (1/9)

Partners Group client assets unchanged (1/14)

Swiss funds down 4% last month (1/15)

Regulator calls for greater transparency (1/16)

Trader convicted of murder (1/17)

Regulator stops payments by Geneva firm (1/19)

Fiduciary deposits up 1% in November (1/21)

Client securities almost unchanged in November (1/21)

Gottex client assets down 29% (1/23)

Swiss fund market shrank 18.5% last year (1/26)

February 2009

Milan arrest three for laundering (2/2)

EU "wants to abolish bank secrecy" (2/3)

Capital Group sheds over 100 personnel (2/4)

Stock market volume down 2% (2/4)

GFX Capital director arrested (2/12)

Swiss funds gain for first time in months (2/13)

Swiss to give Duvalier money to Haiti (2/13)

Stanford group under investigation (2/13)

Swiss firm cited in Austrian probe (2/16)

Stanford group founder charged with fraud (2/17)

PostFinance reports record growth (2/18)

Fiduciary deposits plunged in December (2/23)

Securities in custody fell 27% last year (2/23)

Private client assets down 28% (2/26)

Swiss offshore banking under threat (2/27)

March 2009

UK to ask banks for client names (3/1)

Swiss step up cross-border cash controls (3/1)

Stock market volume up 6% (3/4)

Foreigners pull $1 trillion from UK (3/6)

Switzerland extradites UK fugitive (3/11)

Swiss to help prosecute tax evaders (3/14)

Partners Group profit down 33% (3/16)

Berlin may act against German banks (3/21)

Securities in custody unchanged (3/23)

Cantonal banks' net profits down 28% (3/26)

Gottex boosts dividend despite profit fall (3/26)

SEC acts against Caribbean Bank (3/26)

UK probes tycoon's property deals (3/26)

IRS targets advisers, bankers (3/27)

Swiss banking to "shrink substantially" (3/28)

April 2009

Stock market trading up 11% (4/3)

Switzerland on tax haven "grey list" (4/3)

Swiss probe Zurich firm after Austrian arrest (4/5)

US-Swiss tax talks to start this month (4/8)

Geneva forex firm denies fraud (4/8)

CDS investors bet on sovereign risk (4/8)

Malaysian firm's pretax profit down 10% (4/15)

Hawaii fines "Swiss" firm $1 million (4/15)

Many Chinese millionaires unaffected by crisis (4/16)

Swiss avoid internet banking (4/16)

Court rejects claim on Duvalier funds (4/16)

Securities in custody down 4% (4/21)

Swiss funds up 2% in March (4/21)

Gottex assets down 11% (4/22)

Geneva partners charged over Madoff (4/25)

EIM to cut staff by a third (4/27)

Credit markets stage big rally (4/30)

May 2009

Post office bank attracts huge inflow (5/5)

Gottex acquires asset-based lender (5/6)

Stock market trading down 13% (5/6)

Berne aims for 12 tax agreements this year (5/8)

Aurelia's partners transferred assets abroad (5/14)

Swiss funds up 3% in April (5/15)

Study finds active managers lag passive funds (5/15)

Swiss bank accounts - fact or fiction (5/20)

Securities in custody down 3% (5/22)

Liechtenstein seeks early deal with EU (5/23)

US judge freezes Houston firm's assets (5/23)

Intelligence agencies targeting Swiss banks (5/26)

Berne initials first new-style tax agreements (5/26)

Foreign bank client assets down 20% (5/28)

EU withholding tax receipts up 13% (5/28)

Swiss forex firm declared bankrupt (5/29)

Swiss "parabanking" sector well-positionned (5/30)

June 2009

Aurelia relaunches under new management (6/1)

Saudi Arabia freezes tycoon's accounts (6/2)

Stock market trading down 4% (6/2)

Regulator publishes pay guidelines (6/3)

Liechtenstein client assets down 19% (6/3)

Swiss-Italian's trial starts in Milan (6/8)

Report cites North Korea's Swiss accounts (6/9)

Firm appeals against bankruptcy move (6/11)

Two travellers held at border (6/12)

Berne initials tax information deal with France (6/13)

Court rejects banker's laundering appeal (6/15)

Former Lake Shore head charged (6/17)

Banks told to warn clients about data leakage (6/17)

Swiss private banks' profits down 25% (6/18)

Foreign banks' profits down 28% (6/18)

UBS losses weigh on Swiss bank results (6/18)

Berne initials tax deal with US (6/20)

Kazakhstan deposits surged last year (6/22)

Securities in custody up 3% (6/22)

Many clients lose trust in advisors (6/24)

Libya withdraws funds from Swiss banks (6/29)

July 2009

Stock market trading down 2% (7/2)

Prosecutors complete Behring probe (7/6)

Swiss clear seven in cigarette smuggling case (7/8)

Partners Group reports new money decline (7/10)

Petters investor charged with fraud (7/10)

Italy plans new tax amnesty (7/16)

Swiss return funds to Mobutu heirs (7/17)

Regulator to abolish special capital rules (7/20)

Securities in custody little changed (7/21)

Gottex client assets down 14% (7/22)

FBI arrests 44 in New Jersey (7/24)

European bank client assets down 15% (7/27)

Geneva fund of hedge fund assets plunge (7/27)

Italian amnesty may hurt Lugano banks (7/28)

PostFinance growth continues (7/28)

August 2009

Czech's offshore transfers probed (8/3)

Schreiber deported to Germany (8/3)

Stock market trading reaches new low (8/5)

Norman Foster in Russian funds probe ? (8/5)

Saudi group's Geneva office may close (8/7)

Portuguese official sentenced (8/10)

UK and Liechtenstein sign tax accord (8/12)

Italians probe Agnelli holdings (8/13)

Private client assets up 5% (8/14)

Securities in custody up 2% (8/21)

Switzerland signs first revised tax agreement (8/22)

Lawi family firm's profit down 46% (8/25)

Swiss sign new tax accord with France (8/27)

September 2009

Cantonal banks' first-half profit up 18% (9/1)

Partners Group's adjusted profit down 23% (9/1)

Stock market trading up 3% (9/2)

Gottex first-half profit down 74% (9/2)

Germany's "secret plan" to obtain Swiss data (9/9)