Switzerland

The ex-UBS trader accused of gambling away $2.3bn in unauthorised trades earned £360,000 a year but was overdrawn, a south London court heard today.

Channel 4 News learns the number of British bankers leaving the UK for Switzerland fell by 16 per cent in 2011, despite claims the 50p tax rate would encourage wealthy financiers to leave the country.

A coach carrying a Belgian school party crashes into the wall of a tunnel in Switzerland, killing at least 28 people, 22 of whom are children.

The board of Swiss bank UBS is to meet after an employee was arrested in connection with allegations of rogue trading that will cost the bank around $2bn.

As George Osborne agrees a deal to recoup £5bn in unpaid tax from UK nationals banking in the secretive Swiss system, Channel 4 News pries open the vault doors of the world’s biggest tax havens.

As scientists at CERN successfully create and store anti-matter, one of the physicists behind the experiment tells Channel 4 News it could help explain “why the universe took a left turn”.

FIFA President Sepp Blatter is re-elected for another four years, as an FA move to postpone his “coronation” ends in humiliating failure.

As big-name sponsors express “distress” at corruption allegations in football, former candidate for FIFA’s presidency Mohammed bin Hammam tells Channel 4 News “nobody can claim anything” against him.

Read in full the email from Jerome Valcke that many commentators believe is evidence that Qatar’s money had “bought” them the World Cup in 2022.

Sepp Blatter appears to be on course for another term as FIFA president after world football’s governing body says he has no case to answer over corruption claims.

Fifa President Sepp Blatter is to appear before the ethics committee of football’s governing body on Sunday to answer charges that he knew about alleged cash payments.

There has been a 28 per cent increase in the number of British bankers and financial services workers migrating to Switzerland, writes Business Producer Ben King.

Chancellor George Osborne has defended his austerity plan to Channel 4 News saying that abandoning the deficit reduction plan, would drag the country “back into the danger zone”.

Chancellor George Osborne has defended his austerity plan to Channel 4 News saying that abandoning the deficit reduction plan, would drag the country “back into the danger zone”.