LONDON: The cosy, privileged world of European offshore private banking, a traditional escape from the taxman, is facing extinction amid mounting regulatory pressures with the ultra-secretive Swiss banks most in the firing line, a major industry survey said.
The survey of 105 leading European private banking operations by IBM Business Consulting said revenues worth billions of dollars were at risk as banking secrecy is eroded, with Switzerland likely to lose most.
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