By Emma Thomasson ST. GALLEN, Switzerland (Reuters) - "If you can't trust a Swiss banker, what's the world come to?" asked James Bond in the 1999 film "The World is Not Enough". It has come to this: Swiss banks, under pressure from countries such as the United States, France and Germany, have been giving up their secrets, in some cases handing foreign tax authorities the names of their account holders. To avoid being blacklisted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Swiss government has agreed to share more information with foreign authorities hunting tax cheats. ...
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