numbered accounts
Swiss bank secrecy
Numbered accounts are bank accounts identified by number rather than the account holder's name, designed to protect the depositor's identity.
Associated primarily with Swiss banking, they offer privacy from casual disclosure but not from legal investigations.
The term evokes secrecy, tax evasion, and hidden wealth: The dictator's fortune sat in numbered accounts across Europe.
- Swiss bankDiscreet Alpine financial institution
- bankingFinancial institution transactions
- secrecyPractice of hiding information
- offshoreAway from land
- tax havenZero-rate wealth jurisdiction
anonymous · deposits · coded · confidential · Zurich · private banker · laundering · dirty money · black money · hidden · vault · privacy · clandestine · funds · untraceable · shell · shell company · haven
- financial secrecybank secrecy, Swiss banking, Swiss banks, secrecy laws, financial privacy
- tax crimestax fraud, tax evasion, undeclared income, unreported income, hidden income
- hidden moneyhidden assets, hidden wealth, hidden income, secret stash, cash stash
- offshore financetax havens, tax haven, offshore banking, private banking, private banks
- International Financeforeign investments, currency reserves, foreign currency, exchange rates, international banking
- German BankingDeutsche Bank, savings banks, savings bank, private banks, commercial banks
numbered accountspersonal accounts
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