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Bradley Birkenfeld

Bradley Birkenfeld

    • UBS Whistleblower
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Battling UBS: my uncensored story as the historic whistleblower

Battling UBS: my uncensored story as the historic whistleblower

Swiss Bank Whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld

Swiss Bank Whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld

Bradley Birkenfeld Speaker Biography


Bradley Birkenfeld is a retired financial industry professional renowned as the most significant whistleblower in history. The Boston-area-born banker blew the whistle on the largest and longest running tax fraud by ultra-wealthy Americans aided and abetted by UBS, the biggest bank in the world. Birkenfeld’s unprecedented revelations are directly responsible for the demise of Swiss bank secrecy and triggered an international crackdown against bank-aided tax evasion.

Brad began his banking career at State Street Bank in Boston in 1988. From there, he moved to Europe in 1995 where he established himself as a successful private banker for Credit Suisse, Barclays Bank and UBS. In 2005, he objected to UBS management about the illicit practices of its private bankers serving high-net-worth American clients that engaged in tax fraud. Rebuffed by UBS management, he then contacted American authorities, starting the process by which his bombshell revelations made him the most significant whistleblower in financial industry history. Because of Brad’s unprecedented revelations, the US Treasury was able to recover over $25 billion in back taxes, fines and penalties from American tax cheats.

The Birkenfeld case commenced a broader crackdown on tax fraud by Americans using other Swiss and foreign banks to hide their assets from the tax man. With the US having successfully cracked the wall of Swiss bank secrecy and clawed back billions of dollars in tax revenues, European governments began their own investigations of bank-aided tax fraud. Their actions have forced the exposure of thousands of previously undisclosed accounts holding billions of dollars of assets by their citizens in secret Swiss accounts. The strike against Swiss bank secrecy resulted in a monumental change in the regulatory and enforcement environment, causing changes previously unimaginable, as Switzerland yielded to pressure from the US and European governments to impose stricter bank regulations, exchange of client information and implementing improved tax treaties. As a result of Brad’s historic whistleblowing, the risks and costs to financial institutions that support clients’ tax evasion, fraud, corruption and terrorist activities have increased dramatically.

Brad grew up in the Boston area where he attended high school at Thayer Academy and went on to college at Norwich University in Vermont receiving a BS in Economics. He holds an international MBA from the American Graduate School of Business in Switzerland. He resides in Malta from where he is dedicated to supporting whistleblower initiatives exposing and eliminating fraud. An avid Boston Bruins fan and major memorabilia collector, assisting the team’s efforts to help disadvantaged children ranks high among his philanthropic endeavors.

UBS Whistleblowing On Illegal Offshore Banking. How the largest financial institution in the world, used its global reach and unmatched political clout to pull off the largest and longest running tax fraud in the history of the United States. But the UBS scandal was not restricted to the United States, it continues today and reaches all corners of the globe while involving other multiple nefarious acts.

Exposing Waste, Fraud, & Corruption In Society. How insiders in both public and private sector industries are uniquely positioned to ferret out and report massive fraudulent scams that cost taxpayers and shareholders billions of dollars annually. The key is to encourage whistleblowers to have the courage and ethical standing to come forward and bring these scams to an end as a matter of public policy.

Protecting, Praising, & Compensating Whistleblowers. The key to encouraging whistleblowers to come forward and risk their entire careers is for corporate compliance and legal departments to implement strong and effective protections for them. These protections must include punishing those who target and retaliate against whistleblowers as well as monetarily compensating the whistleblowers for their courageous efforts in exposing the costly fraudulent scams.

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