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Remember when bashing central banks and predicting financial collapse as a result of monetary manipulation and intervention was considered “fake news” within the “serious” financial community, disseminated by fringe blogs? Good times. In an interview with Swiss Sonntags Blick titled appropriately enough “A Recession Is Sometimes Necessary“, the former CEO of UBS and Credit Suisse, Oswald Grübel, lashed out by...

Remember when bashing central banks and predicting financial collapse as a result of monetary manipulation and intervention was considered "fake news" within the "serious" financial community, disseminated by fringe blogs? Good times. In an interview with Swiss Sonntags Blick titled appropriately enough "A Recession Is Sometimes Necessary", the former CEO of UBS and Credit Suisse, Oswald Grübel, lashed out by criticizing the growing strength of central banks and their ‘supremacy over the...

Bild: Olaf Schneider (pixelio) Mit der Portfolio-Struktur soll in der Entwicklungsfinanzierung die Verbesserung des Gesundheitswesens in den am stärksten benachteiligten Gebieten weltweit angestrebt werden. Die UBS Optimus Foundation lanciert heute ihr Portfolio Health: Going further, das neue Wege in der Finanzierung geht und tiefgreifende und grundlegende Verbesserungen für die am...

Bild: Rainer Köthe (pixelio) Symbiotics und UBS lancieren mit Unterstützung der Schweizer Regierung einen Impact-Investmentfonds zur Förderung von Wachstum und Schaffung von Arbeitsplätzen in Entwicklungsländern. Symbiotics hat den SME Finance – Loans for Growth Fund erfolgreich geschlossen, ein voll gezeichnetes Anlageprodukt über 50 Millionen US-Dollar, das UBS ihren...

15 years ago, Swissair stopped operating. Many of the fleet’s airplanes were grounded at Zurich airport. Staff and passengers could not understand the world, official Switzerland was in a state of shock, and public perceptions of UBS management which was considered to have acted in treacherous ways, started their long descend. The movie: Grounding. Werner Enz looks back in the NZZ.

Investec Switzerland. A UBS Group AG unit was found by a federal judge to have violated some contracts with mortgage-backed securities trusts that hold loans, putting it at risk of having to buy back more loans or pay damages in a $2 billion lawsuit. © Chhobi | Dreamstime.com U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel Tuesday ruled that UBS Real Estate Securities Inc. had breached warranties on 13 of 20 loans in the trusts that were introduced into evidence in a three-week trial in...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]A UBS Group AG unit was found by a federal judge to have violated some contracts with mortgage-backed securities trusts that hold loans, putting it at risk of having to buy back more loans or pay damages in a $2 billion lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel Tuesday ruled that UBS Real Estate Securities Inc. had breached warranties on 13 of 20 loans in the trusts that were introduced into evidence in a three-week trial in Manhattan in May.

Bild: Karin Jung (pixelio) Die Aktien diverser Grossbanken haben ein schwieriges Jahr hinter sich. Wie eine Umfrage von Fondstrends aber zeigt, glaubt die Mehrheit der Befragten, dass wieder bessere Zeiten kommen werden. Der Aktienkurs der Credit Suisse hat sich innerhalb eines Jahres halbiert. Die Aktie der UBS handelt 30% tiefer als Ende August 2015. Die beiden Schweizer...

Die UBS arbeitet an einer neuen Cyber-Währung. Die auf Blockchain basierende Währung soll Transaktionen zwischen Finanzhäusern vereinfachen und günstiger machen. Das Projekt "Utility Settlement Coin" (UCS) hat die UBS gemeinsam mit dem Technologieunternehmen Clearmatics gestartet. Am Konzept sind zudem die Deutsche Bank, Santander, BNY Mellon und ICA beteiligt. Durch die auf...

UBS Group AG beat analysts’ second-quarter profit estimates and said it’s on track to cut costs by 2.1 billion Swiss francs ($2.2 billion) through 2017, with Chief Executive Officer Sergio Ermotti struggling with a slump at the wealth management and securities-trading units. © Denis Linine | Dreamstime.com Net income slipped to 1.03 billion francs from 1.2 billion francs a year ago, the Zurich-based bank said in a...