https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Switzerland in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Credit Suisse said Tuesday that a top executive had resigned after assuming responsibility for the bank's decision to spy on a star banker after he jumped ship to competitor UBS. https://www.thelocal.ch/20191001/credit-suisse-executive-resigns-following-spying-scandal Tue, 01 Oct 2019 16:17:44 +0200 credit-suisse-executive-resigns-following-spying-scandal In a case that is making huge waves in corporate Switzerland, the former CEO of Switzerland’s Raiffeisen bank, the country's third-largest, has been remanded in custody as part of an ongoing investigation into corporate fraud. https://www.thelocal.ch/20180305/swiss-star-banker-remanded-in-major-fraud-probe Mon, 05 Mar 2018 14:54:48 +0100 swiss-star-banker-remanded-in-major-fraud-probe Gianni Infantino, the Swiss lawyer among the favourites to take the helm of FIFA, said in an interview published on Sunday there would be no deals among the candidates ahead of this week's vote for a new president. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160221/not-the-time-for-deals-on-fifa-presidency-infantino Sun, 21 Feb 2016 13:10:19 +0100 not-the-time-for-deals-on-fifa-presidency-infantino Blatter's appeal will be heard by Fifa's appeals commission just 10 days before the extraordinary congress in Zurich on February 26th when a vote will be held to appoint a new president of world football's governing body. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160206/blatter-to-attend-fifa-appeal-hearing Sat, 06 Feb 2016 13:48:14 +0100 blatter-to-attend-fifa-appeal-hearing Fifa's ethics tribunal said Saturday it had provided Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini with the reasons for its decision to ban them from football for eight years, clearing the way for them to appeal against the decision. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160109/blatter-and-platini-now-free-to-appeal-bans Sat, 09 Jan 2016 15:58:43 +0100 blatter-and-platini-now-free-to-appeal-bans The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Thursday rejected Musa Hassan Bility's appeal against Fifa's rejection of his candidacy to run in the vote to elect a new head of world football's governing body. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160101/bilitys-appeal-over-fifa-presidency-bid-rejected Fri, 01 Jan 2016 13:55:36 +0100 bilitys-appeal-over-fifa-presidency-bid-rejected Fifa president Sepp Blatter appealed against the 90-day ban that forced him out of office, his lawyers confirmed on Friday, as world football's scandal-tainted governing body headed into months of turmoil over how to find a new leader. https://www.thelocal.ch/20151010/lawyers-blatter-will-appeal-fifa-ban Sat, 10 Oct 2015 13:33:06 +0200 lawyers-blatter-will-appeal-fifa-ban