EAN: 9783039422982

SPILLOVER

Switzerland as a leading international financial center has faced a number of challenges in
recent years: the global financial crisis of 2007-09  the near-collapse of UBS  the country's
largest bank  in 2008  disputes over Swiss banking secrecy  the 2010 Euro crisis  and  most
recently  the emergency takeover of Credit Suisse by its rival UBS. In   Spillover    Peter
Püntener  a freelance photographer and former employee of the Swiss National Bank  attempts to
visually capture these far-reaching events.  At the core of the book are portraits of around 90
decision-makers who were closely involved in overcoming these crises. They are supplemented
with views of rooms and buildings of Swiss and European institutions where the decisions were
actually made. The effects of the bursting real-estate bubble in individual eurozone countries
in 2008 become strikingly visible in views of landscapes in Greece  Ireland  and Spain  which
are juxtaposed with pictures of the simultaneous construction boom in Switzerland. An essay by
Tobias Straumann  professor of modern and economic history at the University of Zurich  quotes
from interviews with portrayed protagonists  while a chronology of events completes this visual
account of the greatest challenges the Swiss financial center has been facing in decades  and
invites a reflection on its future.

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