Swiss Banking

Numbered accounts and permanent neutrality. The Templars, lore insists, chose the Alps.

Documented layer: the 1934 Banking Law criminalized disclosure (numbered accounts follow), wartime conduct (the Bergier Commission's 2002 final report documented looted-gold intermediation and dormant Holocaust accounts, leading to the $1.25 billion settlement), and the modern erosion (UBS's 2009 IRS settlement, FATCA, automatic exchange). The Templar-continuity legend has no documentation. The node holds Switzerland's confirmed function — the discretion utility for whoever needs one — against the mythic pedigree attached to it.