1.   Alternatively, a courier will smuggle often millions of pounds at a time to a country where banking secrecy offers greater protection.

2.   Austria itself has drawn the ire of fellow European Union members for insisting on maintaining a high degree of banking secrecy.

3.   Investigators are also hampered by international conventions that enable them to bypass banking secrecy only in the case of narcotics inquiries.

4.   Last week, the Swiss Bankers Association waived banking secrecy to help rightful claimants locate those assets.

5.   Swiss banking secrecy is obviously largely responsible for this.

6.   Among the nations which came to Naples with reputations for easy money movement or banking secrecy were Austria, Liechtenstein and some Caribbean states.

7.   Among the concerns are legal questions connected with banking secrecy, participants said.

8.   And Economics Minister Pascal Couchepin told a news conference Banking secrecy is not negotiable, Couchepin declared.

9.   Arlacchi, who will resign his Senate post, stressed the need to push for the abolition of banking secrecy for money suspected of coming from the drug trade.

10.   But Cotti told the weekly Sonntagsblick it was necessary to have the investigation into whether Meili had violated banking secrecy, even though Switzerland was heavily criticized for it.