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[8] [9] It was documented as “Biggest Bank Robbery” under “Curiosities and wonders” in Limca Book of Records. [10] [11] [12] The Chicago Sun-Times reported that "12 to 15 Sikhs dressed as policemen and armed with submachine guns and rifles escaped with nearly $4.5 million in the biggest bank robbery in Indian history." "No one was injured."
A night guard at a Swiss bank, he discovered that his employer was destroying records of savings by Holocaust victims, which the bank was required to return to heirs of the victims. After the Swiss authorities sought to arrest Meili, he was given political asylum in the United States. [124] [125] 1997 Alan Parkinson: Male Australian Government
Swiss Bank Corporation found itself in relatively strong financial condition at the end of World War II, with CHF 1.8 billion of assets. [4] By contrast, the Basler Handelsbank (Commercial Bank of Basel), founded in 1862 and one of the largest banks in Switzerland, was insolvent at the end of the war and was consequently acquired by SBC in 1945.
Category 3 and 4 accounts, which had weaker and weakest Holocaust nexus respectively, added 43,415 accounts and 4.2 million Swiss Francs to the tally. [7] In 1998, a United States class-action lawsuit resulted in a settlement of $1.25 billion by the two largest Swiss banks, which is supposed to cover claims by victims and their heirs. [8]
Both robbers were killed, twelve police officers and eight civilians were injured, and numerous vehicles and other property were damaged or destroyed by the nearly 2,000 rounds of ammunition fired by the robbers and police. [1] At 9:16 a.m., Phillips and Mătăsăreanu entered and robbed Bank of America's North Hollywood
UBS Group AG [nb 1] is a multinational investment bank and financial services company founded and based in Switzerland.Headquartered simultaneously in Zürich and Basel, [9] it maintains a presence in all major financial centres as the largest Swiss banking institution and the largest private bank in the world.
Bank name Country Continent Total assets (2022) (billions of US$) 1 JPMorgan Chase United States North America $3,743.57 2 Bank of America United States North America $3,169.50 3 Citigroup Inc. United States North America $2,291.41 4 Wells Fargo United States North America $1,948.07 5 Toronto-Dominion Bank Canada North America $1,486.40 6
The business was a success. He was named honorary consul of Switzerland in San Francisco in 1859, and then returned to Geneva in 1873, where he founded the Swiss American Bank, which would then become the parent company of the bank Hentsch & Cie in San Francisco (unrelated to what is now the Lombard Odier group). [51] Édouard Hentsch (1829–1892)