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Switzerland at risk of EU blacklist after Credit Suisse leaks

The fallout from a huge leak of Credit Suisse banking data threatened to damage Switzerland’s financial sector on Monday after the European parliament’s main political grouping raised the prospect of adding the country to a money-laundering blacklist.

The European People’s party (EPP) called for the EU to review its relationship with Switzerland and consider whether it should be added to its list of countries associated with a high risk of financial crime.

Experts said that such a move would be a disaster for Switzerland’s financial sector, which would face the

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