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Close to 42% of medium-sized companies in Switzerland with 50 to 249 employees are directly affected by international Environmental and Social Governance (ESG) regulations. This is the result of a new study by the University of Applied Sciences Graubünden. Among smaller SMEs with 10 to 49 employees, the proportion is 39%. They are also increasingly …
The high stakes fight over drug prices
2025-09-19
How much is a new drug worth? That’s the million-dollar question that health authorities around the world are grappling with as pharma companies demand higher prices. Drug companies and regulators around the world are increasingly at loggerheads over prices for new medicines. In Switzerland, pharma giant Roche recently pulled a cancer drug from the market …
Swiss engineering giant ABB invests in California AI company
2025-09-17
ABB has invested in California company LandingAI through its Robotics division. This collaboration, the first of its kind, should eventually lead to the development of autonomous and versatile robots. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The LandingLens platform makes it possible to identify and process objects, processes or faults, without the …
Switzerland tops Global Innovation Index
2025-09-16
Switzerland remains the most innovative country in the world, according to an index published on Tuesday by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Geneva. The country comes out ahead of Sweden and the United States, while China has entered the top ten for the first time. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in …
UBS allegedly considering moving headquarters to the US
2025-09-15
Rumours of UBS moving to the United States have resurfaced, just as the Swiss Senate is due to take up the issue of tightening capital requirements for institutions considered “systemic” in Switzerland on Monday. Already a dominant player on the Swiss banking scene at the time, Switzerland’s number one bank became even bigger on March …
With US in retreat, can Switzerland maintain fight against kleptocracy?
2025-09-11
The tough task of stopping illicit financial flows and returning stolen assets is being complicated by slow progress and waning US leadership. When public officials steal millions from state coffers, it’s ordinary people who suffer. In Nigeria, for example, patients seeking treatment at understaffed hospitals fail to receive proper care, said David Ugolor, executive director …
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