Switzerland, the world's largest offshore financial center, has pledged automatically to hand the details of foreign bank accounts to other countries in one of the most significant breakthroughs in the global crackdown on evasion, Financial Times reported. At a ministerial meeting in Paris Tuesday, Switzerland agreed to sign up to a new global standard on automatic information exchange, representing a decisive break with its centuries-old commitment to protecting the privacy of banking clients. Switzerland has $2.2 trillion of offshore assets.
据《金融时报》报道，世界最大的离岸金融中心瑞士承诺，将自动向其他国家交出外国人账户的详细资料。这是全球打击逃税举措的最重大突破之一。在6日于巴黎举行的欧洲财长会议上，瑞士同意签署一项有关自动交换信息的全球新标准。这是一次决定性的举措，象征着瑞士告别几百年来坚持保护银行客户隐私的做法。瑞士总共管理着2.2万亿美元的离岸资产。
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