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Barclays Bank (Suisse) SA, Geneva; Barclays Capital, Zurich Branch of Barclays Bank PLC, London; HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA, Geneva; IG Bank S.A., Geneva; Lloyds Bank plc, Londres, succursale de Genève, Geneva *Standard Chartered Bank (Switzerland) SA (No offices anymore in Switzerland)
Swiss Bank Corporation found itself in relatively strong financial condition at the end of World War II, with CHF 1.8 billion of assets. [4] By contrast, the Basler Handelsbank (Commercial Bank of Basel), founded in 1862 and one of the largest banks in Switzerland, was insolvent at the end of the war and was consequently acquired by SBC in 1945.
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.
The largest and second largest Swiss banks are UBS Group AG and Credit Suisse Group AG, respectively. They account for over 50% of all deposits in Switzerland; each has extensive branch networks throughout the country and most international centers.
The account has become an easy target for Democrats, with Durbin pointing out billionaire Warren Buffet's expressed reason for never opening a Swiss bank account: "There are plenty of good banks ...
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.
The money was held in 1,637 Swiss bank accounts by Banque Pictet, a wealth and asset management firm that is part of the Pictet Group, a financial services company that said it had $691 billion in ...
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 ...