Lobbying World
Source: The Hill
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-18 17:20:07 -0700 | business-news
Johnson will become the president and chief executive of the National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association on Aug. 1. He currently serves as the executive vice president and chief advocacy officer at the National Beer Wholesalers Association, where he has...
Hormel, FactSet, Signet Jewelers, Orchard Supply
Source: Kansas City Star
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-18 16:16:28 -0700 | business-news
June 18 More News Hormel Foods Corp., down $1.46 at $39.19 The food company cut its profit expectations for the year, citing higher costs, softer sales and weak performance at its pork business. FactSet Research Systems Inc., down $4.64 at...
Bankers stripped of secrecy as data swap embraced
Source: The Economic Times
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-18 16:07:19 -0700 | business-news
For almost eight decades, many Swiss bankers had an easy job taking in often untaxed money from wealthy customers from around the world. Now, the country's first female finance minister is changing the way Switzerland's 300 banks are doing business....
G8 leaders agree deal on tax evasion
Source: BBC
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-18 07:00:51 -0700 | business-news
G8 leaders agree tax evasion measures Leaders of the G8 major economies have agreed new measures to clamp down on money launderers, illegal tax evaders and corporate tax avoiders...Governments also agreed to give each other automatic access to information on...
Swiss lawmakers reject proposed bank deal to end tax dispute with US
Source: Star Tribune
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-18 08:15:22 -0700 | business-news
Swiss lawmakers have rejected a government-backed banking bill meant to end a high-profile legal standoff with the United States over suspected American tax cheats. Switzerland's lower house on Tuesday voted down the measure that Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf had presented...
Parliament throws spanner into tax row settlement
Source: SwissInfo
Bern :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-18 03:15:38 -0700 | business-news
US tax dispute The House of Representatives has given short shrift to a planned law allowing Swiss banks to hand over data of suspected tax dodgers to the United States. However, the parliamentary procedure will continue. [...] Biotech boost...
VIDEO: Switzerland vote on bank secrecy
Source: BBC
Bern :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-18 06:28:59 -0700 | business-news
Switzerland's parliament is set to vote on a controversial bill on Tuesday which would allow Swiss banks to pass client information to the US tax authorities. The deal is the result of huge pressure from Washington, in the wake of...
ABB names replacement for departing CEO
Source: Turks and Caicos Free Press
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-16 23:58:26 -0700 | business-news
ABB has chosen Ulrich Spiesshofer , the head of its automation and motion division, as new chief executive after the surprise resignation of Joe Hogan for personal reasons last month. Spiesshofer will take over as CEO of the world's biggest...
Ultra-easy money experiment impedes reform
Source: Japan Times
Basel :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-16 09:22:51 -0700 | business-news
The world's central banks are engaged in one of the great policy experiments in modern history: ultra-easy money. And, as the experiment has continued, the risk of failure and thus of the wrenching corrections and deep economic dislocations that would...
Swiss committee says parliament should ditch debate on U.S. tax deal
Source: Turks and Caicos Free Press
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-13 15:21:24 -0700 | business-news
Swiss Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf (R) talks to Councillor of State Primin Bischof during a debate on the tax agreement between Switzerland and the U.S. A Swiss parliamentary committee said on Thursday that lower house lawmakers should decline to debate...
Westhill Consulting - Mass internet surveillance whistleblower goes public
Posted by: nathalieflex
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-16 16:03:27 -0700 | business-news
Existence of PRISM confirmed. The United States bulk surveillance scandal is continuing unabated with further revelations about the NSA PRISM programme and the person who leaked information about it. Speaking to the Guardian, which first broke the news about the...
Offshore tax strategies may have fewer individual takers
Source: Sun Sentinel
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-12 17:17:06 -0700 | business-news
Miller says he used to field lots of calls from rich doctors and business owners who wanted to know how to fend off taxes and protect their assets from creditors by placing at least some of their money in an...
Severn Trent expiry a blow for merger-arbitrage funds
Source: The Globe & Mail
Zug :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-12 12:45:00 -0700 | business-news
Story The logo of Glencore is seen in front of the company's headquarters in the Swiss town of Zug. Mining That sent Severn Trent shares down 8.3 per cent on Wednesday, adding to falls on Monday and leaving it below...
Swiss Tax Deal Clears Hurdle in Upper House
Source: International Herald Tribune
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-12 16:40:36 -0700 | business-news
Swiss lawmakers agreed on Wednesday to consider a bill that would let the country's banks sidestep strict secrecy laws to end a long-running United States tax probe, rejecting calls for the legislation to be killed. Five months after U.S. action...
Princely Liechtenstein bank keen for clarity on tax
Source: Turks and Caicos Free Press
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-12 03:29:12 -0700 | business-news
LGT Group CEO Prince Max von und zu Liechtenstein attends the annual news conference on the 2007 results in Zurich March 4, 2008. Prince Max von und zu Liechtenstein , chief executive of Liechtenstein's biggest bank LGT , said it...
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