The public prosecutor’s office in the Swiss canton of Valais has charged Swiss Ski vice-president Claude-Alain Schmidhalter with fraud and breach of trust. Schmidhalter, who is also chair of the organising committee for the 2027 Alpine World Ski Ch...

Francis Halzen’s Nobel Prize in Physics has a Swiss connection. Researchers from the University of Geneva are involved in the IceCube experiment, for which Belgian-born physicist Halzen was honoured this year. The research group led by Geneva-based...

A broad coalition claims to have collected over 131,800 signatures in support of a referendum against the construction of new nuclear power stations in Switzerland. The signatures were submitted to the Federal Chancellery in Bern on Tuesday. The refe...

The Zurich High Court will deliver its verdict in the case against former Raiffeisen chief executive Pierin Vincenz in January next year. The High Court announced on Tuesday that the case is currently in the internal deliberation and decision-making ...

Swiss asset manager Partners Group is set to wind up its private equity fund, Partners Group Private Equity (PGPE), which is listed on the London Stock Exchange. A large majority of investors, representing 74.12% of the share capital, voted in favour...