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Encyclopedia > Swiss Bank Corporation

Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC) (German: Schweizerischer Bankverein (SBV), French: Société de Banque Suisse (SBS), Italian:Società di Banca Svizzera) is the name of a bank that existed between 1856 and 1998, when it merged with Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS/SBG) to form UBS AG. 1856 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... Union Bank of Switzerland was located in Switzerland. ... UBS AG (NYSE: UBS; SWX: UBSN; TYO: 8657) is a diversified global financial services company, with its main headquarters in Basel & Zürich, Switzerland. ...


The history of the Swiss Bank Corporation ("SBC") dates to 1856 and the constitution of an underwriting consortium, or "Bankverein," by six private banks in Basel--Bischoff zu St Alban, Ehinger & Cie., J. Merian-Forcart, Passavant & Cie., J. Riggenbach and von Speyr & Cie., who formed an underwriting consortium in Basel, Switzerland. The company was formally organized as Basler Bankverein in 1871. It later joined forces with Zürcher Bankverein in 1895 to become Basler & Zürcher Bankverein. The next year, Basler Depositenbank and Schwizerische Unionbank were acquired. Private banking is done by major institutional banks known as private banks, which offer financial services to private individuals. ... For other uses, see Basel (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Basel (disambiguation). ... 1871 (MDCCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...


Following these acquisitions in 1896, the company changed its name to Schweizerischer Bankverein (Swiss Bank Corporation). The company grew through a series of mergers including Basler Handelsbank in 1945, O'Connor & Associates in 1992, Brinson Partners Chicago in 1994, S. G. Warburg & Co in 1995, and Dillon, Read & Co. in 1997. Dillon, Read & Co. ...


 


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Court TV Library: Miscellaneous Cases -- Survivors of Nazi Regime Sue Swiss Banks for Seized Assets (14058 words)
The Swiss banks knew that the agents and representatives of the Nazi Regime and the Regime itself was looting and plundering the assets of others in furtherance of their war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes against peace, and genocide.
The Swiss banks engaged in a common scheme or conspiracy in furtherance of their objective of profiting from their activities in aiding and abetting, or acting in complicity and collaboration with, the Nazi Regime with respect to looting and slave labor activities.
The banks acted in concert, and engaged in a common set of practices to prevent and derail inquiries by heirs of victims of Nazi Regime atrocities whose assets were deposited in Swiss bank accounts, and by persons whose assets were looted and cloaked by the Nazis and placed in Swiss bank accounts.
STATE BANK v SWISS BANK (1995) (5161 words)
Swiss Bank on the other hand claimed that State Bank of New South Wales had not acted on the faith of the receipt and knew or should have known that the funds were paid to it as principal.
Swiss Bank argued that unless interest was awarded at Australian rates State Bank of New South Wales would be unjustly enriched because it did not have to outlay Australian dollars to repay the judgment debt for principal (the principal) until long after December 1989.
Swiss Bank submitted that the cases which had established that view of the section were not relevant where the benefits derived by a defendant from the use of money ordered to be repaid exceeded the losses of the plaintiff.
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