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  • HSBC private bank in Geneva, Switzerland

    HSBC: Swiss bank searched as officials launch money-laundering inquiry

    Investigation into suspected ‘aggravated money laundering’ comes after Belgium and France begin scrutinising tax affairs of Europe’s biggest bank
  • George Osborne

    Politics
    Labour quizzes chancellor over knowledge of HSBC's Swiss subsidiary conduct

  • Political journalist Peter Oborne, at home in London

    Media coverage
    Telegraph's Peter Oborne resigns, saying HSBC coverage a 'fraud on readers'

  • HM Revenue & Customs office London

    HMRC
    Tax officials call for more resources and better pay after HSBC scandal

  • The new Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) at 25 The North Colonnade, Canary Wharf

    FCA scrutinises HSBC in wake of activities at Swiss arm of bank

  • George Osborne in 2003.

    Osborne advised using financial loopholes to avoid tax and care costs

Latest

  • An Occupy protest in London, 2011

    Tax evaders exposed: why the super-rich are even richer than we thought

  • Dorrit Moussaieff and Ólafur Gr​i​ímsson

    Iceland president's wife linked to offshore tax havens in leaked files

  • Hervé Falciani

    HSBC whistleblower given five years’ jail over biggest leak in banking history

  • Herve Falciani

    Ex-HSBC employee in no-show at Swiss tax trial

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Reaction

  • Ed Miliband has promised a Labour government would begin an immediate and independent investigation into multi-billion pound tax avoidance claims by wealthy firms.

    Poll
    Treat tax dodgers more harshly than benefit cheats, says Guardian/ICM poll

  • Kenneth Clarke arrives at the Tory party's Black and White fundraising ball in Mayfair last week

    Conservatives
    Ken Clarke says Tory party must shun wealthy donors to avoid scandal

  • A composite image of Keith Humphreys and Heather Mitchell

    Case studies
    The tax-dodging father, the benefits cheat – and how they are treated differently

  • Stuart Gulliver, chief executive of HSBC, in 2011

    HSBC comment
    HSBC boss: we failed to live up to standards expected of us

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Explainers

  • The leaked HSBC files have revealed details of some 30,000 accounts holding almost £78bn of assets, with bundles of untraceable cash being paid out to clients.

    The HSBC files: what we know so far

  • Hervé Falciani leaked a cache of secret bank files that showed how HSBC's Swiss subsidiary helped wealthy customers avoid taxes and hide millions.

    HSBC files timeline: from Swiss bank leak to fallout

  • HSBC's Swiss private bank in Geneva

    Why the public should know of Swiss bank’s pattern of misconduct

  • HSBC's Swiss bank in Geneva

    How a 1934 Swiss law enshrined secrecy

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Opinion & letters

  • HSBC sign

    Nils Pratley's view
    HSBC: is it time to allow an outsider to chair the bank?

  • Saying sorry

    HSBC and the art of saying sorry

    Jo Confino
    • Silhouettes of passers-by reflected on the window of a branch of HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) in Genev

      The Guardian view
      Tax dodging: a creative industry that demands an equally creative response

    • Chris Riddell.

      HSBC: snouts in the trough – cartoon

    • HSBC Holdings Plc Bank Branches And Logos

      HSBC: Time to take the kid gloves off in handling tax evaders and avoiders

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