Swiss Banking Secrecy; The Erosion of an Institution. IES WORKING PAPER 2/2008

Switzerland has for a long time been an important centre of banking services in Europe and beyond. Consequently, the banking sector has become important to Switzerland’s prosperity. This paper focuses on a central reason behind the success of the Swiss banking sector: the institution of banking secrecy, deeply enshrined in the Swiss history and tradition. The rapid development of international markets that eventually gave rise to a “group structuration process” has, however, progressively eroded Swiss banking secrecy. It has had to bend before the duty of transparency within the groups in order not to promote financial criminality through accelerated asset inflows. Switzerland has also had to develop a comprehensive legislative frame to tackle financial criminality, and to enter into international agreements providing for mutual assistance. This process has undoubtedly and irremediably weakened the Swiss banking secrecy. Most importantly, nevertheless, the questionable ethical and socio-economic grounds of this controversial institution could and should also start to erode it from within.

Beetles of the genus Hyperaspis inhabiting the United States

At head of title: Thomas Lincoln Casey fund.

A study of Whistle Lake as a possible water impoundment site for Anacortes, Washington.

Mode of access: Internet.

A catalogue of the Washington collection in the Boston Athenæum;

A considerable portion of the books left to Geo. C. Washington. Sold by him to Henry Stevens in 1847 or 1848, and by the latter to the Boston Athenæum in 1849.

Archeological remains in central Kansas and their possible bearing on the location of Quivira (with 10 plates)

Publication 3647.

Drawing by Jacques Lemoyne de Morgues of Saturioua, a Timucua chief in Florida, 1564

Publication 2972.

Journal of the Royal United Service Institution

Imprint varies

Wind, sea and swell : theory of relations for forecasting /

Mode of access: Internet.

The male genitalia of orthopteroid insects.

Mode of access: Internet.

The feeding apparatus of biting and disease-carrying flies.

Mode of access: Internet.

The jubilee of the Constitution. A discourse delivered at the request of the New York historical society, in the city of New York, on Tuesday, the 30th of April, 1839; being the fiftieth anniversary of the inauguration of George Washington as president of the United States, on Thursday, the 30th of April, 1789 ...

An account of the celebration by the New York historical society of the 50th anniversary of Washington's inauguration: p. [121]-136.

The life of George Washington, commander in chief of the American forces, during the war which established the independence of his country, and first president of the United States.

Atlas has engraved t.-p: Atlas to Marshall's Life of Washington. Philadelphia. Published by J. Crissy [n.d.]

The life of George Washington.

Also issued as v. 1 of Sparks' edition of the Writings of Washington.

Washington and the generals of the American Revolution : with finely-engraved portraits, from original pictures.

"Edited by Griswold, with the assistance of William Gilmore Simms, E.D. Ingraham, and others"--Boston Athenaeum, Catalogue of Washington collection, 1897, p. 361. R.W. Griswold wrote about one-third of the work. Cf. Passages from the correspondence ... of Rufus W. Griswold, 1898, p. 230.

Archaeological inventory and testing of prehistoric habitation sites, Chief Joseph Dam Project, Washington /

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