Thursday, January 26, 2012

Swiss deal with United States?

"We hope to conclude the negotiations in 2012," Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf journalists after talks with U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner at the World Economic Forum.

Widmer-Schlumpf said Switzerland was already discussing possible fines its banking industry will have to secure a global civil settlement with U.S. authorities.

It is also trying to get the U.S. Department of Justice to drop criminal probes of 11 banks, including Credit Suisse and Julius Baer.

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