After 3-year downward trend, money parked by Indians in Swiss banks rises over 50% to Rs 7,000 crore
India TV NewsMoney parked by Indians in Swiss banks rose over 50 per cent to CHF 1.01 billion in 2017, reversing a three-year downward trend amid India's clampdown on suspected black money stashed there. The total funds held by all foreign clients of Swiss banks rose about 3 per cent to CHF 1.46 trillion or about Rs 100 lakh crore in 2017, according to the official annual data released on Thursday by Swiss National Bank, the central banking authority of the Alpine nation. The Indian money in Swiss banks had fallen by 45 per cent in 2016, marking their biggest ever yearly plunge, to CHF 676 million -- the lowest ever since the European nation began making the data public in 1987. Swiss banks have earlier said Indians have "few deposits" in Swiss banks compared to other global financial hubs like Singapore and Hong Kong amid stepped-up efforts to check the black money menace.