Switzerland Bank Statement Converter

Switzerland banks ClearlyLedger converts

ClearlyLedger ships dedicated statement profiles for 5 Switzerland banks. Each profile expects the layout that bank actually prints, rather than treating every PDF as a generic table.

Bank	Date format	Currency	Typical length
UBS Switzerland	DD.MM.YYYY	CHF CHF	2-20 pages
Credit Suisse Switzerland	DD.MM.YYYY	CHF CHF	2-25 pages
PostFinance	DD.MM.YYYY	CHF CHF	2-20 pages
Raiffeisen Switzerland	DD.MM.YYYY	CHF CHF	2-18 pages
Zurcher Kantonalbank	DD.MM.YYYY	CHF CHF	2-18 pages

Statement conventions in Switzerland

Switzerland statements in our profile set use DD.MM.YYYY date ordering and are denominated in CHF CHF. Date ordering is the single most common source of silent conversion errors — a DD.MM.YYYY statement read as US ordering produces plausible-looking but wrong dates for every day below the thirteenth of the month, which is why the Switzerland profiles pin the order rather than inferring it per row.

Layout quirks these profiles handle

• UBS's 2023 emergency acquisition of Credit Suisse, formerly Switzerland's other globally significant bank, made UBS by far the largest bank in the country
• UBS itself was formed in a 1998 merger of Union Bank of Switzerland and Swiss Bank Corporation — the country's two largest banks combining decades before the 2023 Credit Suisse deal repeated the same pattern of Swiss banking consolidation
• CHF amounts may use apostrophe thousands separators
• Multilingual labels appear in German, French, Italian or English
• Value-date fields and forex rows need preservation for review
• Founded in 1856 by Alfred Escher specifically to finance Swiss railway construction, making it one of the country's oldest banks before its 2023 collapse and emergency absorption into UBS

Importing into Switzerland accounting tools

Export to CSV and import into Bexio, Abacus, Banana or Sage — the tools Switzerland bookkeepers most often run. Amounts and dates are normalised on export so the column mapping in the import wizard resolves without hand-editing.

Conversions are processed in memory, are never used to train AI models, and the workflow is built to align with the Swiss FADP for Switzerland account holders.

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