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Zürich, Switzerland. Total assets. CHF416 billion (1996) [1] Number of employees. 29,100 (1996) [1] Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) [a] was a Swiss investment bank and financial services company located in Switzerland. The bank, which at the time was the second largest bank in Switzerland, merged with Swiss Bank Corporation in 1998 to become UBS.
[40] [41] In 1993 Credit Suisse outbid UBS for a controlling stake in Switzerland's fifth largest bank, Swiss Volksbank in a $1.1 billion deal. [42] It also merged with Winterthur Group in 1997 for about $9 billion [ 43 ] and acquired the asset management division of Warburg, Pincus & Co. in 1999 for $650 million. [ 44 ]
UBS Group AG[nb 1] is a multinational investment bank and financial services company founded and based in Switzerland. Headquartered simultaneously in Zürich and Basel, [9] it maintains a presence in all major financial centres as the largest Swiss banking institution and the largest private bank in the world. UBS investment bankers and ...
Headquarters. Basel, Switzerland. Swiss Bank Corporation (French: Société de banque suisse; German: Schweizerischer Bankverein) was a Swiss investment bank and financial services company located in Switzerland. Prior to its merger, the bank was the third largest in Switzerland, with over CHF 300 billion of assets and CHF 11.7 billion of equity.
Steve Kroft, host of Banking: A Crack In the Swiss Vault In November 2013, the Zürcher Kantonalbank was classified as a systemically important bank in Switzerland by order of the Swiss National Bank (SNB), alongside UBS, Credit Suisse, Raiffeisen (Switzerland) and PostFinance, and must meet stricter capital requirements and prepare contingency plans for times of crisis. In another step toward ...
A year after the failure of Credit Suisse, the Swiss government says UBS may have to find as much as $27 billion to absorb potential losses. Now, the giant Swiss lender is hitting back, saying its ...
UBS—the final bank prosecuted for its role in the 2008 global financial crisis—is paying $1.4 billion to stop the case going to trial ... Swiss bank UBS is set to shell out more than $1.4 ...
Completed. 12 June 2023. On 19 March 2023, Swiss bank UBS Group AG agreed to buy Credit Suisse for CHF 3 billion (US$ 3.2 billion) in an all-stock deal brokered by the government of Switzerland and the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority. [1][2][3] The Swiss National Bank supported the deal by providing more than CHF 100 billion (US ...