Black money Switzerland: Bye bye banking secrecy
Link to this article www.finanzen.net (published 02.11.2010)
Link to this article www.finanzen.net (published 02.11.2010)
Banking law: errors in advice, credit traps and more As a lawyer for banking law, I know that a bank has been part of our daily life since our earliest childhood. Just remember your first savings book, which you probably got at primary school from the nice savings bank advisor next door. We withdraw money, […]
– Products and concepts for formerly licensed intermediaries, brokers, tipsters and advisors – Investors lose up to more than €40 billion every year because they did not really understand the financial products sold to them – or were the victim of fraud. It is typical that even formerly unsuspicious competence bearers or their financial […]
– When structures for asset protection and succession planning are ineffective – Banks and insurance companies, as well as financial advisors from Germany and abroad, are praising foreign camouflage constructions via prospectuses and appraisals. This should make it practically possible for assets of 100,000 euros or more to constitute a secure succession arrangement by circumventing […]
– How passing on risk without client permission increases insolvency risk -. Alternative to expensive supplier credit The retail trade often makes use of so-called supplier credit, i.e. agrees a payment term, and has then sometimes long since sold on the goods purchased by the time the actual payment is made. The supplier can […]
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Sanctions have been in fashion for centuries, and are being broken. The widow Barbe-Nicole Clicquot-Ponsardin, in reaction to Napoleon’s Russian campaign, was concerned with the embargo imposed by the Russian Tsar on French products in 1812. The widow hired a Dutch ship, had it loaded with over 10,000 bottles of the 1811 vintage, and was […]
Sanctions have been in fashion for centuries, and are being broken. The widow Barbe-Nicole Clicquot-Ponsardin, in reaction to Napoleon’s Russian campaign, was concerned with the embargo that the Russian Tsar had imposed on French products in 1812. The widow hired a Dutch ship, had it loaded with over 10,000 bottles of the 1811 vintage, and […]
Under no circumstances can the security system withstand every conceivable financial crisis. At the very most, however, the supervisory authority is entitled to contractually guaranteed. further reduce benefits and accumulated surpluses to bring them back into line with diminished capital. In the most extreme case, this could lead to that life insurance savers lose more […]
“If you have faith, it’s all over.” (Stanislav Lec, Polish poet) Asset protection is the separation of business and private risks or assets, including the integration of insurance protection. Risks to private assets stem primarily from the business sector (e.g. liability for break-through) or from financing, but also from separation/divorce or legal disputes. […]