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Switzerland

  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    Business InsightMercedes Ruehl
    The Swiss solution looming into sight for UBS

    Switzerland’s pragmatic, slow-moving political system might benefit the bank in seeking compromise in debate over capital rules

    UBS logo above the entrance to the bank’s headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    UBS Group AG
    UBS grants ‘goodwill payments’ to clients hit by Trump trading losses

    Complaints made against Swiss bank over losses on foreign exchange derivatives in wake of US tariff announcements

    The UBS headquarters building in London, UK
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    News in-depthEU trade
    Switzerland stirs Brexit ghosts in push for EU access

    Referendum looms on single market deal that includes concessions on money, migration and judicial power

    Aerial view of Basel
  • Monday, 30 June, 2025
    Hauser & Wirth Gallery Ltd
    Hauser & Wirth owners join wealthy UK exodus with move to Switzerland

    Iwan and Manuela Wirth relocated in June after two decades in the UK

    Interior view of the artwork ‘Maman’ by Louise Bourgeois at Tate Modern gallery of contemporary art in London, United Kingdom. This sculpture of a giant mother spider was the first exhibit commission in the Turbine Hall when Tate Modern opened for the first time 25 years ago
  • Thursday, 19 June, 2025
    Swiss National Bank
    Swiss central bank cuts rates to zero

    Surge in value of Swiss franc amid US-driven trade war and lagging inflation has complicated policymaking

    View of the headquarters of the Swiss National Bank
  • Wednesday, 18 June, 2025
    Due Diligence
    A raid in Switzerland Premium content

    Plus, the potentially huge windfall for Warner Bros Discovery’s chief executive and mid-tier law firms in the UK bump up junior pay

    Credit Suisse logo on a building in 2021.
  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    Media
    Finance blog raided over suspected Swiss banking secrecy law breaches

    Investigation of Inside Paradeplatz raises concerns about ‘draconian’ rules

    Passenger trams make their way along Paradeplatz in front of the Credit Suisse Group AG headquarters in Zurich
  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    London’s summer art scene 2025
    How collector Bérengère Primat ignited her passion for Australian Aboriginal art

    The founder of Switzerland’s Fondation Opale on promoting Indigenous art in Europe — and the show that changed her life

    A woman in a black suit stands outside, with a shiny glass building behind her
  • Friday, 13 June, 2025
    Art Basel 2025
    Katharina Grosse’s stroke of genius? Swapping a paint brush for an industrial spray gun

    The artist has coated museums, a bathhouse, and even her own bedroom in swaths of colour — next stop: Art Basel

    A woman in white, paint-spattered overalls stands against a wall lined in colourful plastic sheets
  • Thursday, 12 June, 2025
    Art Basel 2025
    Six of the most surprising, provocative and inspiring works in Basel’s Kunstmuseum

    The museum’s director chooses a personal selection of highlights from the world’s oldest public art collection

  • Tuesday, 10 June, 2025
    US financial regulation
    US and Switzerland end stalemate over client information

    Agreement lifts blockade on approvals of new Swiss investment advisers to pursue American wealth management

    US Securities and Exchange Commission seal
  • Tuesday, 10 June, 2025
    FT Globetrotter
    How — and why — to do a family holiday in Zürich

    From paddleboarding on the lake to a world-class zoo, via picnics, chocolate and easy mountain day trips, Switzerland’s biggest city is so much more than a financial hub

    Dozens of people in swimming costumes are on top of an three-storey concrete island structure in the middle of a lake, as well as a couple of smaller wooden jetties, getting ready to dive in as others swim around them
  • Monday, 9 June, 2025
    Eurostar International Ltd
    Eurostar plans Frankfurt and Geneva services to tap demand for greener travel

    Rail group seeks to attract corporate customers looking for alternatives to air travel

    A Eurostar e320 high-speed train travels through Ashford in Kent, heading towards France
  • Monday, 9 June, 2025
    Art Basel 2025
    Les Trois Rois: Basel’s only five-star relaunches with a Herzog & de Meuron twist

    Key Notes | A new wing designed by the city’s most celebrated architects opens just in time for Art Basel — and it looks a blast

    A loft space with high ceilings, deep sofas and a central sauna-like fire
  • Friday, 6 June, 2025
    UBS Group AG
    Switzerland proposes forcing UBS to add $26bn in capital

    ‘Too big to fail’ reforms come after bank’s rescue of main rival Credit Suisse

    A woman outside a branch of UBS in Renens, Switzerland
  • Tuesday, 3 June, 2025
    Swiss inflation turns negative for first time in four years

    Investors bet on a return to sub-zero interest rates as central bank tries to restrain soaring Swiss franc

    Pedestrians cross tram tracks in a busy shopping area in Zurich. Two trams are visible on the tracks, with numerous people walking along the sidewalks and crossing the street
  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
    Ruchir Sharma
    The world’s strongest currency is also super-competitive 

    Switzerland’s success shows that a nation can revalue its way to prosperity

    A worker holds a tray of chocolates at a Lindt factory in Kilchberg, Switzerland
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    Julius Baer Gruppe AG
    Julius Baer hit by $157mn loan loss in latest blow to turnaround efforts

    Swiss lender’s chief risk officer Oliver Bartholet to ‘retire’ at the end of the year after series of scandals

    The logo of Swiss private bank Julius Baer at its headquarters in Zurich
  • Saturday, 17 May, 2025
    ReviewVisual Arts
    Medardo Rosso, the forgotten hero of sculpture

    Basel Kunstmuseum’s show brings the Italian’s work to the fore, alongside the many artists he inspired

    An extravagantly moustachioed man in a jacket puts the finishing touches to a clay sculpture of a human head, one of several sculpted heads on raised stools in an artist’s studio
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    Credit Suisse Group AG
    Credit Suisse bonus cuts were unlawful, court rules

    Swiss court says government did not have legal authority to strip bankers of payouts

    Credit Suisse’s logo outside a branch of the bank in Lugano, Switzerland
  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
    Rail
    UK and Switzerland open way for direct rail link

    Governments outline plan to encourage train companies to launch services that could cut journey time to five hours

    Eurostar trains at London’s St Pancras station
  • Monday, 5 May, 2025
    Hot Property
    Hot property: five homes by Swiss lakes

    From a Mediterranean-style villa overlooking Lake Lugano to a water’s edge house with panoramic views near Montreux

    Villa and pool overlook lake with palms and trees surrounding
  • Saturday, 3 May, 2025
    Geneva fights to remain ‘kitchen’ of world diplomacy as Trump cuts bite

    US and European withdrawals force soul-searching in the city that is home to 450 international bodies

    An aerial view of Geneva
  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    Wealth management
    Dubai attracts Swiss family offices tired of tax and regulation

    A confluence of factors from disclosure requirements to a potential 50 per cent wealth tax is weighing on the country

    A woman pushes a pram along a walkway near Jumeirah beach with the Dubai skyline and Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building seen in the centre
  • Sunday, 27 April, 2025
    Swiss National Bank
    Swiss franc surge sparks bets on return to negative interest rates

    Switzerland’s currency has soared as investors seek a haven from US President Donald Trump’s trade war

    A Swiss flag is pictured in front of the Swiss National Bank (SNB) in Bern
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