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  • Woman reading tabloid Blick, with an article critical of UBS's plan to sack staff.

  • Luxury jewellery store display window with a reflection of the offices of Swiss private bank Julius Bär. This section of the Bahnhostrasse, leading to Paradeplatz is awash with expensive boutiques to catch the eye of wealthy bankers and their clients.

  • Entering Credit Suisse HQ on Paradeplatz.

  • Credit Suisse headquarters on Paradeplatz, This square in the centre of Zurich, is the symbolic heart of the Swiss banking industry, which holds an estimated almost $7000 billion in global assets. Long cherished banking secrecy is now in question thanks to disaffectation of the Swiss public for their banks, combined with increasing pressure from foreign governments

  • Paradeplatz with the Headquarters of UBS, Switzerland's largest bank behind. Vault containing gold and other secrets are thought to lie beneath this square in the centre of Zurich, which is the notional heart of the Swiss banking industry, the world's largest offshore banking centre.

  • Credit Suisse headquarters on Paradeplatz, This square in the centre of Zurich, is the symbolic heart of the Swiss banking industry.

  • Headquarters of the Swiss private bank Julius Baer (Julius Bär) on Zurich's Bahnhofstrasse, above a luxury jewellers. A former senior employee of the bank Rudolf Elmer has handed over to Wikileaks the names of 2,000 individuals with funds hidden in offshore accounts.

  • Meeting at Credit Suisse.

  • Modern offices of Credit Suisse on the edge of Zurich, part of a general move out of the city centre.

  • Meeting on an upper floor of the Zurich offices of Liechtensteinische Landesbank, which specialises in private banking and asset manegement. The bank also has offices in the Cayman Islands.

  • UBS headquarters

  • Bare trees reflected on the windows of restaurants for Credit Suisse staff in central Zurich.

  • Bankers returning to work after lunch, outside UBS buildings belonging to its HQ, close to Paradeplatz in the centre of Zurich.

  • Cigars and coffee at Cafe Leo a favoured stop for bankers, standing in the building of a private bank (and owned by a banker's wife), on Bahnhofstrasse, close to Paradeplatz.

  • Paradeplatz, centre of the Swiss banking industry in Zurich. HQ of Credit Suisse at right.

  • Journalists being wined and dined by the Swiss National Bank after an embargoed press conference in a discreet luxury hotel in central Zurich. The Bank's spokesman is standing behind exchanging business cards.

  • Zurich head quarters of the Swiss National Bank.

  • Swiss National Bank background briefing for the media, discussing increased capital requirements for Swiss banks.

  • Author of the Swiss National Bank's annual report during an embargoed press advisory briefing in a discreet luxury hotel in the centre of Zurich.

  • Swiss national bank staff panel to discuss its annual financial stability report with the press in an embargoed meeting in a small luxury hotel in central Zurich, with Thomas Wiedmer, the Chief Financial Officer, and member of the bank's governing board.

  • Waiting for a meeting at Credit Suisse, looking at advertising on the exterior of the bank's head quarters, on Paradeplatz in the centre of Zurich.

  • Man with metal suitcases on Paradeplatz, the symbolic heart of the Swiss banking industry. Switzerland's two largest banks, UBS and Credit Suisse have their headquarters on the this square in the centre of Zurich. The Swiss banking industry holds an estimated almost US$7000 billion , more than half of it foreign, including an estimated US$1,000 billion in undeclared European assets.

  • Women on Bahnhofstrasse, which leads to Paradeplatz, HQ of Credit Suisse and UBS, and itself hosts offices of banks Claiden Leu, and Julius Baer not to mention a vast array of luxury brand boutiques and Jewellers, much favoured by wives of bankers and their clients.

  • Giant armoured vehicle in Zurich's main banking district. HQ of Credit Suissse behind.

  • View of Paradeplatz, the notional centre of the Swiss banking industry, reflected in the window of the Private banking offices of an international bank. The two buildings visibile at the headquarters of Switzerland's two largest banks - Credit Suisse at left and UBS at right.

  • Private bank offices in Zurich

  • Leaving a branch of UBS on Zurich's Bahnhofstrasse.

  • Banker on the run from the rain, by the head quarters of UBS.

  • Close to Paradeplatz, view from former stock exchange building.

  • Silhouette of a man passing offices of UBS, the largest Swiss bank, on Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich

  • Credit Suisse building in a Zurich suburb. part of a general move out of the city centre by major banks.

  • Occupy movement demonstration on Paradeplatz, outside the headquarters of UBS, 'Democracy not plutocracy' slogan.

  • Occupy movement action on Paradeplatz, symbolic centre of the Swiss banking industry, chalking slogans on the pavement 'Occupy UBS Credit Suisse & Wall Street', the country's two largest banks. The banks vaults are said to lie under the square.

  • Occupy movement demonstration on Paradeplatz, outside the headquarters of UBS, one wearing a V for Vendetta mask, holding a placard calling for change with a crude but positive message: 'its time to unfuck the world'

  • Occupy movement demonstrator on Paradeplatz, at the entry to the headquarters of Credit Suisse, dressed up as Brady Dougan, American CEO of the bank.

  • Young woman dancing with a hoop, amongst Occupy movement demonstrators on Paradeplatz, centre of the Swiss banking industry.

  • Occupy movement in Paradeplatz in Zurich, at the entry to UBS, Switzerland's largest bank.

  • Evening news broadcast from Swiss state broadcaster TSR of images of Philipp Hildebrand, Chairman of the Swiss National Bank, leaving a press conference in Zurich on 5th January in which he attempted to defended himself against accusations of currency specualtion. He resigned four days later, shortly before the bank announced an unexpectedly high CHF 13 billion profit.

  • Detail of TV screen from the evening news broadcast (10vor10) of Swiss state broadcaster SF of Philipp Hildebrand, Chairman of the Swiss National Bank, perspiring during a press conference on 5th January in which he attempted to defended himself against accusations of currency specualtion. He resigned four days later, shortly before the bank announced an unexpectedly high CHF 13 billion profit.

  • Television graphic representing one of one of the core values of Swiss Banking - Article 47 of the Swiss Banking Act, dating from 1934, which makes it a criminal offence to divulge private banking details, and so safeguarding secrecy - by law.

  • Evening news broadcast from Swiss state broadcaster TSR of Philipp Hildebrand, Chairman of the Swiss National Bank, during a press conference in Bern on 9th January in which he resigned, shortly before the bank announced an unexpectedly high CHF 13 billion profit.

  • Security detail waiting for a member of the federal council on Bundesplatz in the centre of Bern, opposite the Swiss National Bank which sits just accross from the parliament (to right of image).

  • Swiss National Bank on Bundesplatz in the centre of Bern, just across from the parliament.

  • Detail of ornate interior of the Swiss National Bank in Bern

  • Nicloas Pictet, of Pictet & Cie, at the annual press conference of the Swiss Private Bankers Association (Association des Banquiers Privés Suisses), in the luxury Bellevue Palace hotel in the Swiss capitol Bern.

  • Annual press conference of the Swiss Private Bankers Association (Association des Banquiers Privés Suisses), in the luxury Bellevue Palace hotel in the Swiss capitol Bern.

  • Discussion with the press following the annual press conference of the Swiss Private Bankers Association (Association des Banquiers Privés Suisses), in the luxury Bellevue Palace hotel in the Swiss capitol Bern.

  • Nicolas Pictet at the annual press conference of the Swiss Private Bankers Association (Association des Banquiers Privés Suisses), in the luxury Bellevue Palace hotel in the Swiss capitol Bern.

  • Annual press conference of the Swiss Private Bankers Association (Association des Banquiers Privés Suisses), in the luxury Bellevue Palace hotel in the Swiss capitol Bern.

  • Slogan on a statue in the Parc des Bastions by the encampment of 'les indignés', the Occupy movement.

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