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Bank on Us { 168 images } Created 16 Sep 2011

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  • Man running across Paradepatz, the centre of Switzerland's banking industry, during a sudden heavy rain storm.
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  • Chairman of UBS Kaspar Villiger, a former politician address shareholders, as seen on a monitor in the media room, during the AGM in 2011. He stepped down early, in April 2012.
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  • 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.
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  • Shareholders arriving for the annual general meeting of UBS, Switzerland's biggest bank, in a concert stadium in Basel.
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  • Board members of Credit Suisse laughing before the AGM, including Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, who is also chairman of Nestlé.
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  • People crossing Paradeplatz, the notional centre of the Swiss banking industry, reflected in the window of a bank. The Industry as a whole holds assets estimated at 7000 billion Swiss Francs, more than half of it of foreign origin.
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  • UBS AGM.
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  • Oswald Grübel, Group CEO of UBS, responding to disgruntled shareholders at the annual general meeting, seen on a video screen inside the entry to the stadium used as a venue. He resigned in September 2011, following a massive loss by a trader in London.
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  • Paradeplatz, Zurich's Wall Street, symbolic centre of the Swiss banking industry, reflected in the entry to UBS, Switzerland's largest bank. UBS, considered 'too big to fail' was bailed out by the Swiss government following record losses for a Swiss company following excessive exposure to the U.S. subprime market.
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  • UBS headquarters on Paradeplatz.
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  • Banker outside UBS headquarters Zurich.
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  • View of trams on Paradeplatz, centre of the Swiss banking industry, with the HQs of Switzerland's two largest banks, UBS at centre behind, and Credit Suisse at right. Bank vaults and their secrets are reputed to lie beneath the square.
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  • Symbolic heart of the Swiss banking world - the largest offshore financial centre in the world, holding US$7,000 billion, several times the Swiss economy. The HQ of Switzerland's two largest banks UBS and Credit Suisse are at centre and right. Below the square are thought to lie the banks' vaults.
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  • Symbolic heart of the Swiss banking world - the largest offshore financial centre in the world, holding almost US$7,000 billion assets, several times the Swiss economy. The HQ of Switzerland's two largest banks UBS and Credit Suisse are at centre and right. Below the square are thought to lie the banks' vaults.
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  • Approaching Paradeplatz, centre of the Swiss banking industry.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Chairman Han-Ulrich Doerig at the annual shareholder's meeting of Credit Suisse. He retired in 2011.
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  • Bank staff at the end of Credit Suisse Annual General Meeting of shareholders in a conference centre in a  Zurich suburb.
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  • Security and other staff at Credit Suisse AGM
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  • Shareholders attending the annual general meeting of UBS, Switzerland's biggest bank, in a concert stadium in Basel. There here was a revolt over the conduct of the banks's previous administration, which they regard as responsible for not only record losses for a Swiss company, following exposure to the US subprime market, but was also a major investigation for organised tax evasion by the IRS, which has called into question the whole concept of Switzerland's hallowed banking secrecy.
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  • Aged shareholder addressing the annual general meeting of Credit Suisse. There was general anger at the massive bonuses paid out to senior bankers, totalling a staggering 3 billion Swiss francs ($3.12 billion), when the bank had losses of 22 billion in 2008. There was further ire at the apparent indifference to clients who were sold products link to Madoff. The bank lost almost $1 billion in the scam.
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  • Voting at UBS Annual General Meeting in a conference hall with the group executive board on stage.
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  • UBS Annual General Meeting. Desk for shareholders who wish to address the meeting or make a commentry.
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  • Sergio Ermotti, Group CEO of UBS leaving the stage at the end of the 2012 Annual General Meeting  with shareholders at a conference hall in a Zurich suburb.
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  • Axel Weber, new chairman of UBS leaving the annual shareholder's meeting (AGM) in Zurich in 2012. He was formerly head of the German Bundesbank.
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  • Shareholder leaving the annual general meeting of Credit Suisse. There was general anger at the massive bonuses paid out to senior bankers, totalling a staggering CHF 3 billion ($3.12 billion), when the bank, the second largest in Switzerland, registered  losses of CHF 22 billion in 2008.
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  • Shareholders eating and drinking after voting has finished at UBS' AGM.
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  • Shareholders eating and drinking after voting has finished at UBS' AGM.
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  • Food and drink for shareholders following the annual shareholder's meeting (AGM) of UBS in Zurich 2012.
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  • Shareholder at Credit Suisse AGM
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  • Shareholder at UBS Annual General Meeting.
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  • Shareholders talking at the end of UBS AGM.
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  • Banker at UBS Annual General meeting
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  • Bank staff member in the background of UBS's Annual shareholder's meeting in Zurich's Hallenstadium, 2012.
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  • Shareholders leaving the annual shareholder's meeting (AGM) of UBS in Zurich 2012.
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  • Greenpeace activist during a demonstration outside the AGM of UBS calling for the giant bank to halt investments damaging to the rain forest, reappropriating the phrase 'too big to fail' most often applied to UBS.
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  • Group of businessmen and women leaving the portal to the head quarters of Credit Suisse, which like its larger rival UBS, stands on Paradeplatz in the heart of Zurich.
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  • Credit Suisse staff preparing for a press conference to announce their annual results, in a conference room belong to the bank in central Zurich.
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  • CEO of Credit Suisse, Brady Dougan during a press conference in the bank's offices to anounce annual results.
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  • CEO of Credit Suisse, Brady Dougan addressing a press conference in the bank's offices to anounce annual results. What was not disclosed was the massive scale of bonuses paid out to senior management based on a share scheme. Dougan became by far the highest paid banker in Europe receiving CHF71 million on top of his basic pay of CHD 19.2 million.
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  • Senior manager at Credit Suisse press conference to announce worse than expected annual results.
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  • Senior executives of Credit Suisse, at a press conference to announce annual results.
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  • Walter Berchtold, Chairman of Private Banking at Credit Suisse answering press question at announcement of disappointing annual results. He previously received a bonus of CHF 34 million.
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  • Conference for annual results of UBS.
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  • Inside UBS offices.
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  • John Cryan, Chief Financial officer of UBS April 2011, in press conference announcing disappointing annual results.
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  • John Cryan, Chief Financial officer of UBS April 2011, in discussion with press after announcement of diappointing annual results.
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  • UBS employee being interviewed by a TV station after the announcemnet of annual results, in the lobby of an art-decorated builidng in central Zurich belonging to the bank.
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  • Smoker taking a break outside the annual general meeting of UBS, in which there was a shareholder revolt after catastrophic losses requiring a government bailout, following exposure to the subprime market and an investigation into tax advoidance schemes in the US, which has threatened the very concept of banking secrecy.
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  • Woman reading tabloid Blick, with an article critical of UBS's plan to sack staff.
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  • 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.
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  • Entering Credit Suisse HQ on Paradeplatz.
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  • 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
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  • 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.
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  • Credit Suisse headquarters on Paradeplatz, This square in the centre of Zurich, is the symbolic heart of the Swiss banking industry.
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  • 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.
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  • Meeting at Credit Suisse.
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  • Modern offices of Credit Suisse on the edge of Zurich, part of a general move out of the city centre.
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  • 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.
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  • UBS headquarters
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  • Bare trees reflected on the windows of restaurants for Credit Suisse staff in central Zurich.
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  • Bankers returning to work after lunch, outside UBS buildings belonging to its HQ, close to Paradeplatz in the centre of Zurich.
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  • Paradeplatz, centre of the Swiss banking industry in Zurich. HQ of Credit Suisse at right.
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  • 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.
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  • Zurich head quarters of the Swiss National Bank.
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  • Swiss National Bank background briefing for the media, discussing increased capital requirements  for Swiss banks.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Giant armoured vehicle in Zurich's main banking district. HQ of Credit Suissse behind.
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  • 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.
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  • Private bank offices in Zurich
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  • Leaving a branch of UBS on Zurich's Bahnhofstrasse.
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  • Banker on the run from the rain, by the head quarters of UBS.
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  • Close to Paradeplatz, view from former stock exchange building.
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  • Silhouette of a man passing offices of UBS, the largest Swiss bank, on Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich
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  • Credit Suisse building in a Zurich suburb. part of a general move out of the city centre by major banks.
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  • Occupy movement demonstration on Paradeplatz, outside the headquarters of UBS, 'Democracy not plutocracy' slogan.
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  • 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.
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  • 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'
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  • Occupy movement demonstrator on Paradeplatz, at the entry to the headquarters of Credit Suisse, dressed up as Brady Dougan, American CEO of the bank.
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  • Young woman dancing with a hoop, amongst Occupy movement demonstrators on Paradeplatz, centre of the Swiss banking industry.
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  • Occupy movement in Paradeplatz in Zurich, at the entry to UBS, Switzerland's largest bank.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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).
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  • Hussier for the Federal Council on Bundesplatz (Parliament square), with the Swiss national Bank behind, at the parliament at right.
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  • Swiss National Bank on Bundesplatz in the centre of Bern, just across from the parliament.
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  • Detail of ornate interior of the Swiss National Bank in Bern
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  • Mark Branson, directeur de la Finma
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  • Session of the Swiss National Council (Nationalrat / Conseil National), the lower house of the Federal Assembly. They will vote before the end of the year on a new law, contested by the right wing, to bring Banking secrecy officially to an end, something that was impossible to imagine only  five years ago.
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  • Annual Press conference of the Swiss Private Bankers Association (Association des Banquiers Prives Suisses / Vereinigung Schweizerischer Privatbankers), held in the luxury Hotel Bellevue Palace. President of the organisation, Nicholas Pictet is speaking. He is also an associate of Pictet & Cie, the largest private bank in Geneva.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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