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HOW SWISS BANK ACCOUNTS WORK
May 14, 2008 - James Bond enters a Swiss bank in Spain and is frisked before he can meet
with the banker. In the "Da Vinci Code," a triangular-shaped key activates a robotic arm that
pulls a safety deposit box from the wall in a Swiss bank in Paris to ultimately reveal the secret
to Christianity.
The funny thing is neither of these scenes would actually happen in a real Swiss bank. There
is no such robotic system and, while Swiss banks do have security, they don't search their
clients before letting them access accounts.
Most of us have formed ideas about what Swiss bank accounts are and how they work based
on scenes like these that we've seen in the movies, read in books, or maybe even heard in the
news. In other words, most of us have a distorted or mostly unrealistic view of what it really
means to have the prestigious Swiss bank account. Let's dig deeper into Swiss Bank
Accounts and see how they started, who can have an account and unlock the mystery.
Swiss bank accounts aren't just for millionaires, criminals or government officials trying to
hide ill-gotten wealth, or celebrities protecting their assets from former spouses. They're
available to anyone and lots of average people have Swiss bank accounts. People who live in
countries with unstable governments and banks in particular often turn to Swiss banks
because of their security and privacy.
But let's face it, most of us really just want to be able to say, "Oh, I'll wire the money from my
Swiss bank account."
Click on the red link above to continue the story.
Source: HowStuffWorks
May 14, 2008 - James Bond enters a Swiss bank in Spain and is frisked before he can meet
with the banker. In the "Da Vinci Code," a triangular-shaped key activates a robotic arm that
pulls a safety deposit box from the wall in a Swiss bank in Paris to ultimately reveal the secret
to Christianity.
The funny thing is neither of these scenes would actually happen in a real Swiss bank. There
is no such robotic system and, while Swiss banks do have security, they don't search their
clients before letting them access accounts.
Most of us have formed ideas about what Swiss bank accounts are and how they work based
on scenes like these that we've seen in the movies, read in books, or maybe even heard in the
news. In other words, most of us have a distorted or mostly unrealistic view of what it really
means to have the prestigious Swiss bank account. Let's dig deeper into Swiss Bank
Accounts and see how they started, who can have an account and unlock the mystery.
Swiss bank accounts aren't just for millionaires, criminals or government officials trying to
hide ill-gotten wealth, or celebrities protecting their assets from former spouses. They're
available to anyone and lots of average people have Swiss bank accounts. People who live in
countries with unstable governments and banks in particular often turn to Swiss banks
because of their security and privacy.
But let's face it, most of us really just want to be able to say, "Oh, I'll wire the money from my
Swiss bank account."
Click on the red link above to continue the story.
Source: HowStuffWorks
