A woman takes a deposit box out of a compartment in the safe room of an Austrian bank in Vienna
A woman takes a deposit box out of a compartment in the safe room of an Austrian bank in Vienna April 10, 2013. Austrian Finance Minister Maria Fekter will fight "like a lion" to defend the country's banking secrecy, she told a newspaper on Monday, promising to veto any steps that endanger the centuries-old tradition. Austria taxes interest income at source and sends the proceeds back to the depositor's home country without revealing any names, a system it defends as being more efficient than exchanging personal information with foreign governments.REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader (AUSTRIA - Tags: BUSINESS)