Switzerland
SNB council member to step down next April
Swiss National Bank’s Armin Jans to resign from Bank Council after 12 years in role
ECB announces baseline T2S price of €0.15
Settlement platform’s Programme Board proposes to fix fee for settlement until 2018; price not dependent on UK volumes, says ECB
Swiss to make UBS and Credit Suisse pay for systemic status
Swiss commission proposal beefs up Basel III for Credit Suisse and UBS with 19% capital requirement and other measures to tackle 'too big to fail' problem
Swiss National Bank upbeat about recovery
Swiss National Bank revises 2010 growth forecast upwards after revival in manufacturing; says recovery likely to slow in 2011
SNB appoints new media spokesman
Swiss National Bank names broadsheet economics deputy editor Walter Meier as new media spokesman; Meier to start in early 2011
Former HKMA head Yam set to join UBS board
Swiss investment bank UBS nominates HKMA former chief executive Joseph Yam as candidate to its board of directors.
SNB: Quarterly Bulletin – June 2010
Swiss National Bank estimates export driven growth of 2% in 2010, despite renewed tensions in Europe
Swiss banks return to profit: SNB
Swiss National Bank report finds banks in Switzerland recorded moderate profits last year following heavy losses in 2008
SNB records $1.3bn profit for first quarter
The Swiss National Bank’s has reported a quarterly net profit of Sfr1.5 billion for the first three months of the year
SNB’s Hildebrand: too-big-to fail could wipe out country
Swiss National Bank chairman Philipp Hildebrand calls for hasty resolution to too-big-to-fail in Switzerland
SNB tackles too-big-to-fail
Report by the Swiss National Bank suggests countries biggest banks will need to downsize
Top-level Swiss committee to fix "too big to fail"
Liquidity and "too big to fail" will dominate agenda for Steering Committee bridging central bank and regulator’s boards, says FINMA’s Zuberbühler
SNB, Finma set up stability steering group
Central bank and regulator intensify their collaboration on financial stability
Swiss govt must defend free trade – SNB’s Roth
Swiss National Bank’s Jean-Pierre Roth says weak growth, unemployment, public finance and inflation key future challenges
Roth praises SNB’s monetary policy
Swiss National Bank’s Jean-Pierre Roth says the central bank has fulfilled its mandate for the past decade
Interventions helped creditors not shareholders
Bank for International Settlements reviews market reaction to bank rescue packages during the crisis
SNB's Jordan cautions on low rates
Responsible behaviour on the part of homeowners, and bank discipline when granting loans, is needed to ensure that a low-interest environment does not lead to destabilisation of the property market, said Thomas Jordan, a member of the Swiss National Bank…
Swiss ponder new break-up measures
The Swiss National Bank (SNB) is considering ways to possibly break up large banks and wind down some of their business units during difficult times.
Swiss talk tough on franc appreciation
The Swiss National Bank has warned that it will continue to intervene in currency markets to prevent the appreciation of the franc.
Switzerland's Jordan: too-big-to-fail a priority
The solution of the too-big-to-fail problem is the main task for Swiss financial regulators, said Thomas Jordan, a member of the country's central bank's governing board.
SNB's Hildebrand wants global bankruptcy code
Philipp Hildebrand, a member of the Swiss National Bank's governing board who will take the helm next year, has called for global insolvency standards as a means to handle the too-big-to-fail and too-big-to-save problems.
Swiss economy to take 3% hit - SNB's Roth
Jean-Pierre Roth, chairman of the Swiss National Bank, has said that GDP this year is expected to contract by 3%, suggesting a less severe recession than in Germany or the United Kingdom.
Crisis revealed SNB rate policy strength: Roth
The Swiss National Bank's (SNB) unique monetary policy proved useful in staving off a worsening of credit conditions in the wake of the financial crisis, Jean-Pierre Roth, the chairman of the central bank's governing board, has said.
Crisis undermines our models: new SNB official
Jean-Pierre Danthine, an academic who is set to join the Swiss National Bank's (SNB) board in 2010, has said that the crisis demands a fundamental rethink of the economic models used by central bankers.