Some of Switzerland’s private banks have started to ban top executives from travelling abroad, even to neighbouring France and Germany, amid fears they will be detained as part of a global crackdown on bank secrecy. The travel bans have focused on those visiting the US, following the detention there last year of a UBS private banker as part of a federal tax investigation.

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