Region: Switzerland

Hong Kong’s banking regulator has fined Swiss lender UBS, Commercial Bank of China and two other banks for historic anti-money laundering breaches.

22 November 2021

The two banks, however, were able to avoid a financial penalty because they cooperated with the Swiss financial regulator's investigation.

18 November 2021

12 November 2021

Swiss federal prosecutors intend to drop a criminal investigation into German car manufacturer Volkswagen over the diesel emissions scandal.

09 November 2021

Lawyers in London and Brasília have helped Rolls-Royce resolve the final Brazilian strand of a long-running corruption case and Morrison & Foerster has steered a Chinese electronics company to a settlement over claims it sold millions of defective dehumidifiers.

04 November 2021

Swiss federal prosecutors have charged former Fifa president Sepp Blatter and former Uefa president Michel Platini over an allegedly improper 2 million Swiss franc payment.

02 November 2021

The Swiss bank ignored internal warnings that a so-called “master of the kickbacks” was involved in a lucrative fundraising project in Mozambique.

20 October 2021

18 October 2021

A UBS analyst deleted over 1,000 hours of recordings believing they were test files. 

15 October 2021

Former SBM Offshore lawyer Jonathan Taylor voluntarily travelled to Monaco on Monday to speak with a public prosecutor, months after he successfully avoided extradition to the principality.

13 October 2021