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UBS has written off $37bn of US mortgage-related loans, raised $27bn from investors and now lost its chairman. What next for Switzerland’s largest bank?
Improper trading case adds to woes for UBS
News that employees made unauthorised trades that cost clients more than $42m could well make them more nervous about the Swiss bank’s wealth management division
UBS staff speculated on client accounts
The Swiss bank has been hit with the third-biggest fine levied by the UK financial watchdog after senior employees were discovered using money taken from customer accounts to speculate in foreign currencies and commodities
Private banking casts cloud over UBS results
The Swiss bank, which was among the biggest European casualties of the credit crisis, is showing further signs of rehabilitation but its powerhouse private banking business is deteriorating
UBS rocked by fresh losses
The Swiss bank unveils a bigger than expected loss as one-off charges overshadow improved earnings in investment banking
UBS fund management chair ends talk of sale
Ahead of the bank’s third-quarter earnings announcement, John Fraser, head of UBS Global Asset Management, draws a line under months of speculation by confirming that it is not up for sale
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UBS loses ability to convince as credibility is hit
Marcel Ospel’s name has turned to mud in the 18 months since the UBS chairman stepped down but the bank has lost credibility in doggedly defending him
Grübel still has difficult work to do at UBS
Oswald Grübel, new chief executive, turns his attention to the difficult task of rebuilding the bank’s ailing investment and private banking arms
Privacy rather than banking secrecy at stake in Miami
Judge Alan Gold must certainly be enjoying his moment in the sun in Miami. After all, the federal judge is presiding over the landmark civil case launched by the US Internal Revenue Service to force UBS to reveal the names of some 52,000 unidentified US taxpayers it suspects of holding undeclared offshore accounts with the big Swiss ban
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The IRS claims it will receive an ‘unprecedented amount of information’ from the Swiss bank
Man in the News: Bradley Birkenfeld
Two years ago, writes Haig Simonian, the phone in the FT’s Zurich office rang. ‘My name is Tarantula,’ said the mystery caller. ‘The information I will provide will put my life in danger and be the end of Swiss bank secrecy’
Offshore no more
Switzerland’s financial secrecy is a vessel for tax evasion and the Swiss do not have a self-evident right to profit from aiding people to evade the laws of other countries
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UBS has found itself thrust to the forefront of the US administration’s new war on tax evasion
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