HSBC ‘cast-iron certain’ to breach rules again, executive admits
Recorded comments appear to contrast with bank’s public statements
Swiss Leaks
Swiss leaks is a collaboration between 130 journalists from 45 countries under the auspices of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. The Irish Times, along with other news organisations, has been given access to records on thousands of customers of HSBC Private Bank in Switzerland
HSBC boss says he is right person to fix bank
Gulliver faced more than two hours of hostile questioning at House of Commons
Swiss accounts used in Petrobras scandal, say court documents
Scandal emerging as Brazil’s biggest graft case includes Bank Safra
Swiss refused request for help to pursue HSBC prosecutions
Revenue sought assistance to bring some of those named in leaked bank files before Irish courts
New UK law could see bankers prosecuted for aiding tax evasion
Deal with France to allow UK use leaked HSBC files to pursue financial advisers
HSBC apology adverts give pause for thought
Bank put its ‘Guardian’ advertising ‘on pause’ during Swiss leaks investigation
HSBC subsidiary in Geneva searched
Swiss premises of HSBC’s private bank searched as part of investigation
Senior ‘Telegraph’ writer resigns over ‘fraudulent’ HSBC coverage
Peter Oborne claims distinction between advertising and editorial has ‘collapsed’
Banks need to clean up ethics and compliance, says BNP Paribas chief
Chairman says changes needed at the French bank and across industry to embed ‘normal ethical standards’
HSBC offers ‘sincerest apologies’ for banking practices
Financial services group publishes letter in British newspapers addressing Swiss leaks
Former HSBC boss steps down from lobby group
Peer to quit amid claims the bank enabled tax dodging while he was in charge
UK claims ministers had no knowledge of HSBC tax scandal until this week
Closing of ranks in UK parliament and in British financial services after revelations
HSBC brand undone by minds closed to tax evasion
In soothing ad-land, its clients are not arms dealers or drug traffickers, but kids who sell lemonade
Swiss Leaks: Make it easier for bankers to pay for criminality
Opinion: ‘When the EU introduced the European Savings Directive in 2005, in an effort to clamp down on tax evasion by EU citizens, what did HSBC Private Bank in Geneva do?’
Belgium may use arrest warrants against HSBC directors
Prosecutors may step up part in global inquiry if request for information fails to yield results
Swiss Leaks: US may scrap prosecution deal with HSBC
FTSE 100 list slides eight points as HSBC controversy takes toll
UK revenue settled with 1,000 people who had Swiss-based HSBC accounts
UK tax authorities chose settlement over prosecution as ‘most efficient’ way
Leaks increase pressure on Swiss to break from culture of banking secrecy
Governments worldwide found it increasingly difficult to justify not taking firmer action against tax evasion
US considers scrapping HSBC prosecution deal
Department of justice examining whether bank manipulated foreign-exchange markets
Total of HSBC funds linked to State inflated by IFSC
$3.5bn held in accounts linked to Republic, analysis of HSBC files finds
HSBC revelations shine light on secretive diamond world
As a compact, stable, and transferable store of value, diamonds offer enormous advantages to smugglers, money launderers, and tax evaders
Oxfam calls for European action on HSBC revelations
Former UK chancellor Lawson says that the big banks may need to be broken up
Former senior executives at HSBC later went on to take up positions in Ireland
Data on thousands of accounts were taken from Geneva-based bank
Irish names in HSBC bank’s secret files
International clients include those involved in arms trade and blood diamonds
‘I paid Revenue what was due, and that was it’, says Dr Michael Cuddy
Galway economist had account with HSBC in Geneva after working abroad
Swiss leaks: Donegal jeweller John Crossan held HSBC account
Retired Crumlin man John Hall also mentioned in leaked HSBC data
HSBC’s Swiss deposits drop by almost half
Bank comes close to admitting its Swiss branch was used to facilitate tax evasion and money laundering, and says its deposits have dropped to $68bn since it initiated project to improve standards
Swiss leaks: Geneva bank assured client that Revenue would not be given details
Businessman John Cashell was worried that his account data would make it to Ireland
Swiss leaks: Mail not sent to HSBC account holder Aidan O’Brien
Racehorse trainer says matter is now resolved and company fully tax-compliant
Revenue Commissioners advised not to pursue HSBC tax case
Evidence was deemed insufficient for criminal charges against bank, says ex-tax chairman
HSBC statement in full
‘We have taken significant steps over the past several years to implement reforms and exit clients who did not meet strict new HSBC standards’
HSBC devised secretive ways to avoid tax reforms
Bank sold clients methods of shielding wealth which later ended up being investigated
The real ‘housewives’ of HSBC
HSBC was at times willing to accommodate unsavoury clients, some of whom were not housewives but felons and arms traffickers
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