The scene: a street in Zurich. The mark: a wealthy Swiss banker. His pursuers: hired goons looking for intel. It sounds like something ripped from John Le Carre. In fact, it’s real-life—and not all that unusual in the world of high finance.
News that Credit Suisse Group AG had hired private investigators to tail a star banker who’d defected to a rival has captivated the hush-hush world of Swiss banking. The ensuing scandal has reached the very top of the firm and, in all likelihood, heads will roll.
