There are many Swiss banks in spy novels and adventure movies. How realistic are they? Can you really send a ransom to a Swiss bank account, or use your fingerprints to open your Swiss safety deposit box? Only a Swiss banking insider could tell for sure. We are exactly that. Our company, Micheloud & Cie, is in the business of opening Swiss accounts for international clients. We work with many Swiss banks, some established for more than 200 years, and have served clients in more than 100 different countries. We are a Swiss company, based in Switzerland and owned and managed by Swiss citizens.

The goal of this project is to review a number of movies and novels with Swiss bank accounts and assess in details the realism of the way Swiss bank account are depicted and used in the plot.

Clearly, an author or screenwriter must be allowed some creative license, after all movies are not documentaries and the audience wants entertainment more than it wants facts. But our knowledge of the world also comes from what we see in movies or read in novels. We thus believe it a fair endeavor to study those work of fiction with the cold eye of the Swiss banker and help you tell fact from fiction.