Hypothekarbank Lenzburg AG Reaches Resolution under US Justice Department's Swiss Bank Program

The US Department of Justice announced that Hypothekarbank Lenzburg AG (HBL) has reached a resolution under the department’s Swiss Bank Program.

According to the terms of the non-prosecution agreement signed today, HBL agrees to cooperate in any related criminal or civil proceedings, demonstrate its implementation of controls to stop misconduct involving undeclared U.S. accounts and pay penalties in return for the department’s agreement not to prosecute the bank for tax-related criminal offenses.

HBL was founded in 1868 and is headquartered in Lenzburg, Switzerland. Its principal business, focused on the Canton of Aargau, Switzerland, is issuing mortgages on real property and lending to businesses.

HBL offered a variety of traditional Swiss banking services that it knew could assist, and that did assist, U.S. clients in the concealment of assets and income from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). For example, HBL, upon client request, did not send mail associated with some U.S.-related accounts to the United States. In addition, HBL offered numbered accounts to its clients, a service by which access to information about an account, including the identity of the accountholder, was limited to only certain employees of HBL. In a handful of instances, the accountholders of U.S.-related accounts who refused to provide a Form W-9 or who admitted that they were not tax compliant withdrew significant amounts of cash or physical assets when HBL forced these accounts to be closed.

Кантональный банк Тичино и Цюрихский банк Zweiplus урегулировали свои налоговые споры с США

В рамках налогового конфликта с Соединенными Штатами кантональный банк Тичино (BancaStato) должен заплатить штраф в 3,3 миллионов франков, а Цюрихский банк Zweiplus заплатит один миллион.

Американский департамент юстиции 19 июля объявил, что в ответ на сотрудничество этих двух банков в уголовном процессе, их преследование прекращается.

Кантональный банк Тичино насчитывал 187 связанных с Соединенными Штатами клиентских счетов, авуары которых составляли 137 миллионов долларов. Что касается банка Zweiplus, то с 2008 года это финансовое учреждение держало 44 связанных с Соединенными Штатами клиентских счетов, авуары которых составляли 12,1 миллиона долларов.

Отныне 31 швейцарский банк, входящих во 2-ю категорию банков по специальной программе США, которая была подписана в августе 2013 года между Вашингтоном и Берном, достигли соглашений с американскими властями в рамках программы налогового урегулирования.

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US Justice Department Announces That Three More Swiss Banks Reach Agreements Over Tax Evasion Claims

On July 30, 2015, the Justice Department’s Tax Division announced that three more Swiss banks — PKB Privatbank AG, Falcon Private Bank AG and Credito Privato Commerciale in liquidazione SA (CPC) – have cut deals with the U.S. to resolve allegations that those institutions assisted their U.S. customers in hiding assets from the Internal Revenue Service and evading U.S. taxes. Collectively, the three banks will pay penalties in excess of $8.4 million and will continue to cooperate with the DOJ’s ongoing investigations in this area pursuant to the requirements of the Swiss Bank Program.

In a press release announcing the agreements, Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo commented as follows:

“Swiss banks continue to lift the veil of secrecy that for decades has assisted U.S. individuals in willfully evading their U.S. tax obligations, often through the use of sham structures and trusts established in foreign jurisdictions. The department’s prosecutors and the IRS are actively following these leads to countries across the globe.”

Еще два швейцарских банка урегулировали проблемы с американскими налоговыми властями

Финансовое соглашение, позволяющее избежать судебного преследования, было заключено между еще двумя банковскими учреждениями Швейцарии и американской налоговой администрацией.

SB Saanen Bank и пришли к соглашению с Американским департаментом юстиции (DoJ) в рамках налогового конфликта с Соединенными Штатами. Банки обязались выплатить штрафы в 1,37 миллиона и 57 000 долларов соответственно.

В результате оба банка освобождаются от судебного преследования.

DoJ сообщил, что, начиная с 1 августа 2008 года бернский SB Saanen Bank имел 110 американских счетов на общую сумму в 62 миллиона долларов, а расположенный в Цюрихе Privatbank Bellerive сообщил о 20 американских счетах на сумму в 68,9 миллионов долларов.

С вышеуказанными банками общее число швейцарских банков категории 2 составило 22 банка, которые пришли к соглашению с американскими властями в рамках программы по налоговому урегулированию, заключенному в августе 2013 года между Вашингтоном и Берном.

Ранее три швейцарских банка в том числе кантональные банки Нойшателя и Нидвальда, а также Mercantil Bank Цюриха согласились выплатить штрафы в 1,123 миллиона, 856 000 и 1,172 миллиона долларов, соответственно.

Another Two Swiss Banks Agree to Pay $1.4 Million in U.S. Tax Program

Two Swiss banks agreed to pay combined penalties of about $1.4 million to avoid prosecution under a U.S. program that requires Swiss firms to say how they helped American clients avoid taxes.

SB Saanen Bank AG, a 141-year-old institution, will pay $1.37 million, while Privatbank Bellerive AG will pay $57,000, the Justice Department said in a statement Thursday.

More than 100 Swiss firms at the end of 2013 entered a U.S. program that allowed them to resolve possible liabilities tied to allegations they helped clients conceal assets to avoid paying taxes.

At least 20 Swiss banks have paid more than $280 million in exchange for agreements not to prosecute them for their behavior. In addition to the penalties, SB Saanen and Bellerive agreed to cooperate in any criminal or civil proceeding related to the alleged conduct and show how they are working to stop misconduct involving undeclared U.S.-related accounts.

США оштрафовали еще три швейцарских банка / Three Swiss Banks Agree to Pay $3.1 Million in U.S. Tax Program

Еще три швейцарских банка согласились выплатить властям США около $3,15 млн в виде штрафа за участие в налоговых махинациях.

Речь идет о Mercantil Bank, Banque Cantonale Neuchteloise и Nidwaldner Kantonalbank. Mercantil Bank выплатит $1,172 млн, Banque Cantonale Neuchteloise – $1,123 млн и Nidwaldner Kantonalbank – $856 тыс.

Программа, запущенная США в 2013 году, допускает достижение внесудебных договоренностей со швейцарскими банками, признающими свою ответственность за налоговые нарушения, если только они не находятся уже под следствием. Взамен им обещают – с определенными оговорками – освобождение от угрозы судебного уголовного преследования в США по подозрению в пособничестве уклонению от уплаты налогов американскими гражданами. Такой программой, включая эти три банка, воспользовались уже 20 швейцарских банков.

Банки признали, что помогали американским клиентам создавать «фиктивные компании» для сокрытия личности владельца, а также выдавали кредитные и дебетовые карточки без указания имени владельца. Пополнять счета на этих карточках клиенты могли с помощью заранее оговоренных паролей – например, сообщения в банк о том, что «в бензобаке кончается бензин».

По сообщению газеты The Wall Street Journal, сумма штрафов в рамках американской программы может достигать половины стоимости активов, размещавшихся в швейцарских банках. Условия программы достаточно суровые, и в Швейцарии они вызывают немало споров. Изначально о готовности участвовать в программе заявляли более 100 банков, но в последние месяцы некоторые из них стали от этого отказываться. Вашингтон намерен договориться с ними до конца 2015 года.

Three Swiss banks agreed to pay combined penalties of about $3.1 million to avoid prosecution under a U.S. program that requires Swiss firms to say how they helped American clients avoid taxes.

Mercantil Bank (Schweiz) AG will pay $1.17 million, while Banque Cantonale Neuchateloise will pay $1.12 million and Nidwaldner Kantonalbank will pay $856,000, the Justice Department said Thursday.

Twenty Swiss banks have paid $279.6 million in exchange for non-prosecution agreements. More than 100 Swiss firms entered the program at the end of 2013.

Banque Pasche SA and Arvest Privatbank AG will pay $8.3 millions in U.S. Tax Program

Two Swiss banks agreed to pay combined penalties of about $8.3 million to avoid prosecution under a U.S. program that requires Swiss firms to say how they helped American clients avoid taxes.

Banque Pasche SA will pay $7.23 million and Arvest Privatbank AG will pay $1.04 million, the Justice Department said Thursday. Seventeen Swiss banks have paid $276.4 million this year in exchange for non-prosecution agreements.

Von Graffenried Holding AG Reaches Deal to Resolve Tax Probe

Swiss private bank Von Graffenried Holding AG agreed to Pay $287,000 to resolve a U.S. probe into claims it helped American taxpayers hide assets from authorities, according to the U.S. Justice Department.

Since August 2008, Bern-based Von Graffenried held a total of 58 U.S.-related accounts with about $459 million in assets, the government said Thursday. The bank is the 15th to reach an accord with the U.S. over tax evasion under a framework for Swiss banks implemented by the Justice Department in 2013.

Swiss Bank Eks Avoids U.S. Tax Prosecution, Discloses Accounts

The Swiss bank Ersparniskasse Schaffhausen AG will pay a $2 million penalty to avoid prosecution under a U.S. program that requires Swiss firms to say how they helped American clients avoid taxes.

EKS is one of 14 banks to have settled with the U.S. Justice Department since March 30, paying combined penalties of about $268 million. More than 100 Swiss firms entered the Justice Department program at the end of 2013.

Under the program, Swiss banks escape charges by laying out details of their cross-border business, as well as sharing information on American accounts.

EKS couldn’t be reached by phone for comment outside regular business hours Friday.

Julius Baer-Taxes

(Bloomberg) -- Julius Baer Group Ltd., Switzerland’s third- largest wealth manager, will take a provision of $350 million in the first half of this year to settle claims of tax evasion with the U.S. Justice Department.

“These settlement discussions have now sufficiently advanced to enable Julius Baer to make a preliminary assessment of a probable and approximate amount required to reach a settlement with the Department of Justice,” the Zurich-based bank said in a statement on Tuesday.

While the bank said there is no timetable for a final settlement, two people familiar with the matter said a resolution is at least several weeks away.

The negotiations involve U.S. prosecutors in the Southern District of New York and the Justice Department’s tax division, according to the people, who requested anonymity because the matter isn’t public.

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Швейцарский суд постановил, что передача личных данных работников швейцарского банка Credit Suisse в США была незаконной

Решение суда, которое было обнародовано в понедельник адвокатами сотрудника банка запрещает банку при сотрудничестве с органами власти США передавать, информацию, идентифицирующую сотрудника банка. Это первое в своем роде решение принятое швейцарским судом.

Сотрудник швейцарского банка Credit Suisse обратился в Женевский суда первой инстанции с иском в отношении своего работодателя обвиняя последнего в том, что банк передал властям США 1623 единиц информации о нем в период с апреля по октябрь 2012 года.

В своем вердикте от 28 мая 2015 года суд отметил незаконный характер передачи Credit Suisse информации властям США, которая содержала данные о бывшем сотруднике банка и которая была передана вне установленной международного процедуры по оказанию взаимной правовой помощи. Переданные банком данные или прямо идентифицировали сотрудника банки либо позволили властям США его определить.

U.S. and Swiss banks Société Générale, Berner Kantonalbank reach resolution

Swiss banks Société Générale Private Banking SA and Berner Kantonalbank AH have agreed to pay the United States multimillion-dollar penalties under a resolution announced on Tuesday by the U.S. Justice Department.

Under the department's Swiss Bank Program, Société Générale will to pay a nearly $17.81 million penalty and Berner Kantonalbank will pay a nearly $4.62 million penalty, U.S. Justice Department officials said in a statement.

Berner Kantonalbank said in a statement the penalty will have no impact on its results for the current year and that it had already made appropriate provisions in 2013.

Two more Swiss banks settle with U.S. over tax offenses

(Reuters) - Two more Swiss banks, Rothschild Bank AG and Banca Credinvest SA, settled with U.S. authorities as part of a voluntary program to avoid prosecution over allegations they helped Americans evade taxes, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday.

Rothschild Bank will pay $11.5 million and Banca Credinvest will pay $3 million to resolve the probes, prosecutors said.

Seven other banks have settled since March with the Justice Department, and dozens more of the about 100 banks that signed up to the scheme are expected to settle this year.

The Justice Department program, which launched in 2013, lets Swiss banks avoid criminal charges by disclosing cross-border activities that helped U.S. account holders hide their assets and income from U.S tax authorities.

Banks already under criminal investigation, such as Julius Baer and HSBC's Swiss private bank, are excluded from the program.

Banks must provide detailed information on the accounts of U.S. taxpayers under investigation as part of the deals.

"The bank agreements announced today continue to change the landscape in the offshore banking world," said Richard Weber, chief of the IRS unit in charge of criminal investigations. "With each additional agreement, the world where criminals can hide their money is becoming smaller and smaller."

Zurich-based Rothschild Bank was one of a number of banks that signed up customers who fled other large Swiss banks, such as UBS AG, after they were criminally investigated for tax offenses by U.S. authorities, prosecutors said.

Since that time, Rothschild Bank had 332 U.S.-related accounts with a total balance of about $1.5 billion, prosecutors said.

A spokesman for Rothschild Bank said the bank had already set aside provisions that would cover the penalty and related costs.

Banca Credinvest did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

By Lindsay Dunsmuir (Reuters)

U.S. reaches deals with four more banks under Swiss program

Four more Swiss banks have cut deals with the U.S. Department of Justice to avoid possible prosecution for helping Americans evade taxes, the department said on Thursday.

The banks are Societe Generale Private Banking (Lugano-Svizzera), MediBank AG, LBBW (Schweiz) AG, and Scobag Privatbank AG. The banks agreed to pay penalties ranging from $9,090 to $1.36 million.

The banks settled under a voluntary program the Justice Department launched in 2013 to allow Swiss banks to resolve potential criminal charges by disclosing cross-border activities that helped U.S. account holders conceal assets.

Under the program, banks also must provide detailed information on the accounts of U.S. taxpayers under investigation.

Three banks settled under the program earlier this year and dozens more are expected to do so in the coming months.

Banks that were already under criminal investigation, such as Julius Baer and HSBC's Swiss private bank, were excluded from the program.

Swiss banks have come under intense pressure to give up their traditional secrecy in recent years.

The department is now investigating account holders, bank employees and others based on information supplied, in part, by the banks participating in the program, Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline Ciraolo said in a statement.

"There is no safe haven," Ciraolo said.

Societe Generale Private Banking, based in Lugano, will pay $1.36 million after managing over 100 U.S.-related accounts worth about $140 million since 2008, the Justice Department said.

The bank helped account holders conceal assets and income from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service through numbered accounts or holding accounts in the names of sham entities, the department said.

The other banks provided similar services.

MediBank AG, of Zug, Switzerland, will pay $826,000 after helping U.S. taxpayers hide assets, the department said. MediBank had 14 U.S.-related accounts worth $8.6 million under management since 2008.

LBBW (Schweiz), based in Zurich, held 35 U.S.-related accounts with $128 million in assets under management since August 2008, the department said. It will pay $34,000.

Scobag Privatbank AG, based in Basel, had 13 U.S.-related accounts worth nearly $7 million since 2008 and will pay a penalty of $9,090, according to the Justice Department.

The banks mitigated their penalties by encouraging U.S. taxpayers to meet their obligations, the department said.

The banks could not immediately be reached for comment.

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‘Constructive’ talks on US banks tax evasion row

Tensions between Swiss banks and the United States justice authorities should ease up in 2015, Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf has said on the sidelines of the joint International Monetary Fund and World Bank spring meetings in Washington.

The minister said she had received positive signals that this year would bring solutions to the conflict, a result of the US Department of Justice (DoJ) crackdown on past tax evasion offences by American account holders at Swiss banks.

Talks with DoJ representatives had been “very constructive”, she noted.

She pointed to the recent example of Lugano-based bank BSI, the first Swiss-based bank to complete the non-prosecution programme hashed out between Bern and the US in 2013. “The bank as well as the American authorities were satisfied with it. We see that the programme is working.”

Widmer-Schlumpf was quick to note that the government is not playing an active role in the conflict, as parliament decided that the banks should resolve their differences themselves. However, Bern is still concerned that Swiss banks are treated fairly compared with others.

Bilateral tax talks with Germany, France and Italy are also going in the right direction, the minister added.

The non-prosecution programme

The deal signed by Switzerland and the US in 2013 sets out a programme for Swiss banks to avoid landing in the US courts on tax evasion offences. Those banks that believe that they may have illegally accepted the assets of US tax cheats had to register by the end of 2013. Some 106 banks chose this route. These banks had to supply the DoJ with documentation showing their business activities in the US. Penalties will range from 20% of the value of assets held in accounts opened before August 1, 2008 to 50% in accounts opened after February 28, 2009.

Banks that have US clients but believe they complied fully with US tax law were able to enter the programme as category 3. The same entry window was open for category 4 banks that are so small they have no US exposure.

The DoJ did not allow 14 Swiss banks, or Swiss-based branches of foreign institutions, to join the programme because they were already under active criminal investigation in August 2013.

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Управляющие активами и один из бывших руководителей банка UBS были признаны виновными в содействии в уклонении от уплаты налогов в США /Swiss Asset Manager and former UBS AG executive Pleads Guilty in U.S. Tax Avoidance Probe

Управляющий активами в Швейцарии - Питер Амрайн на суде в Федеральном суде Манхеттена дал признательные показания относительно оказания помощи гражданам США в уклонении от уплаты налогов. Как стало известно у управляющего активами был целый ряд американских клиентов, которые при открытии счета в швейцарских банках обращались к нему за помощью.

На заседании суда, прошедшем на прошлой неделе, 53-летний обвиняемый через своего адвоката подал ходатайство об изменении показаний и признал свою вину в содействии в уклонении от уплаты налогов. Суд принял данное заявление адвоката и теперь банкиру грозит до 5 лет лишения свободы. Официальное оглашение приговора намечено на 1 июля.

Согласно материалам следствия, обвиняемый до 2006 года работал в одном из швейцарских банков в Цюрихе, а позже он стал независимым консультантом по управлению активами. Обвиняемый открывал счета для граждан США как минимум в 5 швейцарских банках, среди которых был и банк Wegelin & Co. Кроме того, бывший банкир участвовал в создании подставных компаний, которые впоследствии регистрировал в Лихтенштейне и которые также являлись частью схемы по обходу налоговых выплат.

Обвиняемый начал свою деятельность в 1998 году, его сообщником в обходе законодательства США был швейцарский адвокат Эдгар Пальтцер, который в 2013 году дал признательные показания по своему делу и начал сотрудничать с властями США.

Swiss Asset Manager Pleads Guilty in U.S. Tax Avoidance Scheme

(Bloomberg) -- Swiss asset manager Peter Amrein pleaded guilty to helping U.S. citizens avoid paying taxes, according to federal prosecutors in New York.

Amrein conspired with Americans from 1998 to 2012 to help them evade taxes, according to his indictment, unsealed in February 2014. Amrein conspired with a Swiss lawyer, Edgar Paltzer, who pleaded guilty in New York in 2013, according to the indictment.

Former UBS Executive Pleads Guilty in U.S. Tax Evasion Probe

(Bloomberg) -- Former UBS AG executive Hansruedi Schumacher pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the U.S. as part of the government’s ongoing prosecution of financial industry officials who assist Americans in tax evasion.

Schumacher, 56, entered his plea Thursday in federal court in West Palm Beach, Florida.

The Lugano-based BSI first bank to face US non-prosecution deal fine

Lugano-based bank BSI will pay a $211 million penalty after acknowledging it helped clients create sham identities to evade American taxes, the US Justice Department announced on Monday.

The bank, headquartered in the canton of Ticino, BSI employed myriad schemes to facilitate tax evasion, such as creating false-front corporations and trusts to hide money.

BSI had more than 3,000 active accounts secretly tied to US taxpayers after 2008, many of which it knew were not disclosed to US authorities, the justice department said.

Under a two-year deferred prosecution agreement, BSI agreed to make a complete disclosure of cross-border activities, assist prosecutors with all investigations related to the case and ensure that all new accounts will be declared to the US.

BSI came forward to US prosecutors under a 2013 program started by the justice department's tax division to encourage banks to self-disclose violations.

The department expects similar agreements in the "near future", said assistant attorney general Caroline Ciraolo.

"The program offers a unique opportunity for Swiss banks to come forward voluntarily, admit to criminal conduct, pay an appropriate penalty, and assist the department in its investigations of other financial institutions, US account holders, and individuals who facilitated and profited from the concealment of foreign accounts by US taxpayers," Ciraolo said.

More than a dozen Swiss banks that were already under criminal investigation were excluded from the initiative, called the "Swiss Bank Program."

Swiss banks request US back down on demands

Three-quarters of the banks that signed a December 2013 “disclosure programme” as category 2 banks with US investigators are suggesting that American authorities have gone beyond the terms of the agreement, reports Bloomberg.

The news agency says it has seen a copy of the letter sent 21 October by lawyers for 73 of the 100 banks that signed onto the US Department of Justice programme, which at the time provided few details for how it would be implemented. Post Finance 13 December 2013 said it was signing up for the programme as a precaution, despite great uncertainty about what it entailed.

The banks are objecting to the terms that have since been provided by the DOJ for the non-prosecution agreement.

The banks, according to Bloomberg, are asking for changes that include

“a requirement that banks cooperate fully’ with ‘any other domestic or foreign law enforcement agency’ in any investigation.
“‘This requirement is not found in the program and, indeed, turns a program specifically focused on U.S. tax issues into a global cooperation agreement without any safeguards or guarantees of appropriate consideration of the banks’ cooperation,’ according to the letter from 18 law firms obtained by Bloomberg News.”

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Swiss Banks Entering U.S. Client Disclosure Program

The U.S. voluntary disclosure program for Swiss banks to avoid prosecution for fostering tax evasion through cross-border accounts held by U.S. clients divides banks into four categories.

About one third of Swiss banks have applied for category 2 of the program, U.S. Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally said on Jan. 27, after the Department of Justice received 106 letters of intent by Dec. 31. Keneally didn’t name any banks seeking to take part.

The following table shows the banks that have declared their intentions by category, in reverse chronological order. The table shows where banks have announced a provision for a potential penalty and/or costs related to the program, and where it’s known that they have transfered data related to U.S. accounts to the U.S. authorities.

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ank Cat.* Date Provisions Data
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CATEGORY 2

Deutsche Bank AG 2 10/14 ? ?
Lloyds Banking Group Plc 2 07/14 ? ?
Schroder & Co. Bank AG 2 03/14 £15m Yes
Coutts & Co. AG 2 02/14 ? Yes
Gonet & Cie. 2 01/14 ? Yes
La Roche & Co. AG 2 01/14 ? ?
Bordier & Cie. 2 01/14 ? ?
BSI Group 2 01/14 Yes Yes
Cie. Lombard, Odier SCA 2 12/13 ? Yes
Rothschild Bank AG 2 12/13 ? Yes
Union Bancaire Privee 2 12/13 ? ?
EFG International AG 2 12/13 CHF36.5m Yes
Banca dello Stato 2 12/13 ? ?
Banque E. de Rothschild 2 12/13 ? ?
Banque Cantonale Neuchatel. 2 12/13 ? ?
Banque Cantonale du Valais 2 1213 ? ?
Schaffhauser Kantonalbank 2 12/13 ? ?
Hypothekarbank Lenzburg 2 12/13 Yes ?
Banque Cantonale du Jura 2 12/13 ? ?
Nidwaldner Kantonalbank 2 12/13 No ?
Aargauische Kantonalbank 2 12/13 not announced
Luzerner Kantonalbank AG 2 12/13 CHF5m Yes
St. Galler Kantonalbank AG 2 12/13 Yes** ?
Hyposwiss Private Bank 2 12/13 see St.Galler
Graubuendner Kantonalbank 2 12/13 Yes ?
Banque Cantonale Vaudoise 2 12/13 Yes** ?
Piguet Galland & Cie SA 2 12/13 see BC Vaud.
Banque Cantonale de Geneve 2 12/13 Yes** Yes
Zuger Kantonalbank AG 2 12/13 CHF8m Yes
PostFinance 2 12/13 No Yes
Bank Linth LLB AG 2 12/13 CHF2.6m Yes
Migros Bank AG 2 12/13 Yes Yes
Bank Coop AG 2 12/13 CHF9m ?
Berner Kantonalbank AG 2 12/13 ? Yes
Valiant Holding AG 2 12/13 Yes Yes

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