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Innovation
Award 2013 Nominee
Innovation
Award 2013 Nominee
Inside Paradeplatz, Finanznews aus Zürich
Lukas Hässig
Hässig launched the website ‘Inside Paradeplatz, Finanznews aus Zürich’. Under the headlines “Stasi UBS” and “UBS – “Kripo” interrogate bankers in a special chamber”, Inside Paradeplatz exposed the methods of former policemen, employed as company detectives in the second biggest Swiss bank. Data was stored in a probably illegal way, and shared with other banks and financial companies. Hässig not only produces courageous, ground-breaking investigative journalism on the world of so-called ‘haute finance’, but his website, which is widely-read in the financial world, also has a sound business model guaranteeing its independence.