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1999
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Genèses - Année 1999 - Volume 34 - Numéro 1 - Pages 4-27Sébastien Guex: Le secret bancaire suisse. Institution aussi célèbre que controversée, le secret bancaire suisse reste largement méconnu sur le plan historique. Cet article a pour ambition de retracer quelques étapes cruciales de son histoire au cours de la première moitié du XXe siècle. Contrairement à une légende très prisée, l'ancrage légal de cette institution en 1934 - que beaucoup confondent avec la création du secret bancaire lui-même - ne répondait pas à la volonté de protéger les avoirs que les Juifs allemands victimes des persécutions nazies avaient déposés en Suisse. Il visait avant tout deux objectifs. Donner, d'une part, des garanties aux milieux bancaires helvétiques qu'inquiétait l'établissement d'une certaine surveillance par l'État de leurs activités. Rassurer, d'autre part, la clientèle française des établissements suisses, désécurisée par les démarches répétées et parfois musclées entreprises par le gouvernement de l'Hexagone pour entraver l'évasion fiscale des capitaux français vers la Suisse. À l'issue de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, la question du secret bancaire suisse, et notamment des volumineux fonds français administrés à son ombre, s'est retrouvée au centre des relations, tendues, entre les puissances alliées et les autorités helvétiques. .
Secret Swiss Bank Accounts Little is known about the history of the Swiss institution of secret bank accounts, which is as famous as it is controversial. The aim of this article is to retrace some of the critical stages in its development during the first half of the 20th century; Contrary to the widespread legend, the . legal foundation of this institution in 1934 - which many people confuse with the creation of the institution itself - was not a response to the desire of German Jews - who were victims of Nazi persecution to protect the assets they had placed in Switzerland. It had, above all, two objectives. First, it was designed to provide a guarantee to the Swiss banking world, which was worried about the Swiss State establishing a system for monitoring of their businesses. Secondly, : it was intended to reassure French customers of Swiss banks, who were; concerned , by the repeated, and sometimes forceful, steps being taken by the French government to prevent the tax evasion of French capital in the direction of Switzerland. At the end of World War II, the issue of secret Swiss banka accounts, particularly the. significant amount of French funds being administered in their shadow, was at the core of tense relations between the Allied forces and the Swiss authorities.
24 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.
Secret Swiss Bank Accounts Little is known about the history of the Swiss institution of secret bank accounts, which is as famous as it is controversial. The aim of this article is to retrace some of the critical stages in its development during the first half of the 20th century; Contrary to the widespread legend, the . legal foundation of this institution in 1934 - which many people confuse with the creation of the institution itself - was not a response to the desire of German Jews - who were victims of Nazi persecution to protect the assets they had placed in Switzerland. It had, above all, two objectives. First, it was designed to provide a guarantee to the Swiss banking world, which was worried about the Swiss State establishing a system for monitoring of their businesses. Secondly, : it was intended to reassure French customers of Swiss banks, who were; concerned , by the repeated, and sometimes forceful, steps being taken by the French government to prevent the tax evasion of French capital in the direction of Switzerland. At the end of World War II, the issue of secret Swiss banka accounts, particularly the. significant amount of French funds being administered in their shadow, was at the core of tense relations between the Allied forces and the Swiss authorities.
24 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.
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01 janvier 1999
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