12.36pm: The press conference to hand over the Swiss banking data – containing the offshore account details of 2,000 prominent people and companies – is now over, but here is a summary of some of Assange’s later answers.

Latest update on the latest from Wikileaks on the issue of 2000 Swiss bank accounts of wealthy individuals and offshore corporations.

• Assange says he wants to go the “safe route” and have professionals look at the Elmer CDs; he also says WikiLeaks has found “sources need to be protected before the information is passed out to others.”

• He says some journalists can be opportunists who “twist and hype up the material and distort the historical record” so WikiLeaks makes “primary source documents available so honest journalists rise high and dishonest journalists struggle.”

• He is also asked about the embassy cables release. Assange says 2.3% has been released and the process will continue over the coming months.

• Assange says WikiLeaks has had more legal threats from banks “than any other organisations”. (Update Elmer said of the Swiss banking system: “I started pulling on the tail of a mouse and it became a fire-breathing dragon.”)