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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.
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. [1]
The Pictet Group, known as Pictet, is a Swiss multinational private bank and financial services company founded in Switzerland. Headquartered in Geneva, it is one of the largest Swiss banks and primarily offers services in wealth management, asset management, and asset servicing, to private clients and institutions.
The bank then took the name Lombard, Bonna & Cie. [23] On 31 March 1830, Paul Frédéric Bonna left the firm to start his own bank, Bonna & Cie. The bank remained active for almost a century, before being absorbed into Hentsch & Cie in 1920. [23] In 1830, Jean-Gédéon Lombard (aged 66), handed over the bank to his eldest son Jean-Eloi Lombard ...
Bank name Country Total assets (2023) (billions of US$) Headquarter city 1 JPMorgan Chase United States: $3,898.33 New York City: 2 Bank of America United States: $3,051.38 Charlotte: 3 Citigroup United States: $2,416.68 New York City 4 Wells Fargo United States: $1,881.02 San Francisco: 5 Royal Bank of Canada Canada: $1,544.17 Montreal: 6 TD ...
In 1994, Swiss Bank Corporation was in the midst of a series of acquisitions that included O'Connor & Associates, S.G. Warburg & Co., Dillon Read & Co. and culminated in the bank's merger with the Union Bank of Switzerland in 1998. Swiss Bank announced the acquisition of Brinson Partners and brought in Brinson to run the bank's asset management ...
He rose to become the bank's head and the architect of its 1998 merger with the Union Bank of Switzerland to what is now UBS. [2] The new bank, of which he became CEO, was then the second-largest bank in the world. [3] Ospel stepped down as CEO in 2001 to become chairman of the board of directors, but retained tight operational control over UBS ...
Following the end of World War II, Jacob Safra expanded the new banking activities toward Europe and later to Latin America and the United States. In May 2011, it purchased 20% of the pulp and paper company Eco Brasil Florestas for R$160 million. [1] In November 2011, it bought 46% of Swiss bank Sarasin for US$1.13 billion. [2]