UBS: An onshore network for offshore banking

Grübel claims the tide is turning for UBS

Grübel claims the tide is turning for UBS

UBS: Regulators could bring economic damage

As Euromoney went to press UBS was preparing to announce numbers which will provide a hint as to how large a volume of money wealthy Italians have taken out of the bank in Switzerland and repatriated to Italy to take advantage of a one-off tax amnesty. It will be a lot.

The old offshore banking model is dying. A Swiss court last month found that Swiss regulators acted unlawfully by insisting that UBS deliver details of thousands of US accounts to be shared ultimately with the US Internal Revenue Service but it’s a decision that comes too late to make any difference.

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