The Swiss franc is a major world currency today due to the prominence of Swiss financial institutions.

What is at stake is not just control of Union Bank but also its role as a Swiss institution.

Civilian service is a Swiss institution, created in 1996 as an alternative to military service.

The Swiss institution is both a commercial and investment bank, a combination that has long been legal under Switzerland's banking laws.

Some of their assets were handed over to the German government while the rest remained in dormant accounts in the Swiss financial institutions.

Swiss legislators have argued that Swiss institutions are being unfairly singled out.

Grants and awards from Swiss and Italian cultural institutions 1992 to 2000:

Eduard died in 1965 in a Swiss mental institution.

The German and Swiss institutions confirmed their activity.

Compared with Japan's big banks, many surviving only on life support, the giant Swiss institutions are bastions of robust health.