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UBS investment bankers and private bankers are known for their strict bank–client confidentiality and culture of banking secrecy. [nb 2] Because of the bank's large positions in the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets, the Financial Stability Board considers it a global systemically important bank.
Banking secrecy, [1][2] alternatively known as financial privacy, banking discretion, or bank safety, [3][4] is a conditional agreement between a bank and its clients that all foregoing activities remain secure, confidential, and private. [5][6] Most often associated with banking in Switzerland, banking secrecy is prevalent in Luxembourg ...
UBS Group AG building in St. Gallen.UBS maintains strict banking secrecy practices which have been used to facilitate tax evasion. The Swiss investment bank and financial services company, UBS Group AG, has been at the center of numerous tax evasion and avoidance investigations undertaken by U.S., French, German, Israeli, and Belgian tax authorities as a consequence of their strict banking ...
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. Chloe Taylor. August 15, 2023 at 11:31 AM.
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 ...
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.
Michel Christopher "Christoph" Meili (born 21 April 1968) is a Swiss-American whistleblower and former security professional. In 1997, Meili illegally disclosed to third parties that Swiss bank Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) was destroying documentation of Holocaust-era assets. After a federal arrest warrant, a set of fines, and death threats ...
The world's largest money center banks were all caught up in the mortgage-backed securities net. They also all have some exposure to real estate, consumer, and commercial debt. That means that the ...