Posted by Reuters: Business News on January 30, 2012
LONDON (Reuters) – Former UBS trader Kweku Adoboli will stand trial in September after pleading not guilty on Monday to charges related to the loss of more than $2 billion on trades the Swiss bank says were unauthorized.



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Posted by The Distressed Debt Report on January 16, 2012
Aurora Capital Group hired Steven Smith, former global head of restructuring at UBS Investment Bank,…
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Posted by Reuters: Business News on December 23, 2011
ZURICH (Reuters) – UBS will sacrifice its place in the top ten investment bank rankings as stricter capital rules force it to give up riskier fixed-income business, the Swiss bank’s financial head said.



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Posted by Reuters: Business News on November 20, 2011
ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss bank UBS’s strategy to slash risky assets by almost half and pay its first dividend since the financial crisis has the full backing of Axel Weber, its newly-crowned Chief Executive Sergio Ermotti said in a Swiss newspaper on Sunday.



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Posted by Reuters: Business News on November 18, 2011
ZURICH (Reuters) – Shares in Swiss bank UBS rose on Friday as investors welcomed its pledge to start paying dividends again, though its plans to trim its scandal-hit investment bank failed to go as far as some had hoped.



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(Reuters) – Swiss bank UBS will slash risky assets by almost half and shift focus back to wealthy people’s money as it pledged its first dividend since the financial crisis.



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Posted by Reuters: Business News on November 15, 2011
ZURICH (Reuters) – UBS named Sergio Ermotti as its new chief executive, making permanent the 51-year-old Swiss banker’s appointment as a temporary successor to Oswald Gruebel, who left the Swiss bank in September following a $2 billion rogue trading scandal.



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Posted by Reuters: Business News on November 13, 2011
ZURICH (Reuters) – The board of UBS will appoint Sergio Ermotti as permanent chief executive shortly before a keenly-awaited investor day on Thursday, a Swiss newspaper reported on Sunday.



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Posted by The PIPEs Report on November 10, 2011
UBS Securities agreed to settle charges that its recordkeeping for efforts to locate stocks availabl…
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ZURICH (Reuters) – UBS is shutting its asset-backed securities business in the United States, Swiss newspaper HandelsZeitung reported on Thursday without citing sources.



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