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NUMBERED SWISS BANK ACCOUNTS
Some bank accounts are afforded an extra degree of privacy. With a numbered bank account your business within the bank is carried out not under your name but under a number or code. This is simply an internal security measure to restrict knowledge of the customer's identity to senior bank officers, rather than being accessible to all the employees of a bank. Apart from this a numbered bank account enjoys no additional privileges in terms of confidentiality. The information required to open such an account is no different from that of an ordinary account; completely anonymous accounts are prohibited by law. Should a criminal investigation take place, law enforcement has access to information related to a numbered account in the same way it has access to information about any other account.
Numbered accounts are usually not as easy to open. They can not be opened by mail. They typically require an initial deposit of at least 300’000.- CHF / 300’000 US$ (depending of the bank) and cost approximately 500 CHF per year to maintain.
Some bank accounts are afforded an extra degree of privacy. With a numbered bank account your business within the bank is carried out not under your name but under a number or code. This is simply an internal security measure to restrict knowledge of the customer's identity to senior bank officers, rather than being accessible to all the employees of a bank. Apart from this a numbered bank account enjoys no additional privileges in terms of confidentiality. The information required to open such an account is no different from that of an ordinary account; completely anonymous accounts are prohibited by law. Should a criminal investigation take place, law enforcement has access to information related to a numbered account in the same way it has access to information about any other account.
Numbered accounts are usually not as easy to open. They can not be opened by mail. They typically require an initial deposit of at least 300’000.-
