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Swiss Lawmakers to Vote on New Rules for UBS, Credit Suisse
September 16th, 2015
Banks may have to hold larger capital buffers, separate investment banking from other operations Swiss lawmakers may deliver a sharp reminder to the country’s biggest banks, UBS Group AG and Credit Suisse Group AG, that they remain under close scrutiny at ...
Blockchain expert Tim Swanson talks about R3 partnership of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, UBS, Barclays et al
September 16th, 2015
Nine of the world’s biggest banks from both sides of the Atlantic and Asia Pacific have agreed to join a partnership to divine a set of common standards and practices towards constructing a shared digital ledger system for financial ...
UBS reveals its interest in Sidechains as well as Ethereum
September 15th, 2015
There is an air of confidence about UBS at this time concerning the bank’s exploration of distributed ledger technology and smart contracts. Recently, UBS demonstrated how a bond could be automated on a blockchain, the shared ledger system similar ...
UBS Building Virtual Coin For Mainstream Banking
September 7th, 2015
Swiss bank UBS is working on a prototype virtual currency that it hopes will be used by banks and financial institutions as a basis to settle mainstream financial markets transactions. But unlike the bitcoin digital currency, the Swiss bank’s ...
UBS Diverts $5 Billion of Asia Deposits to Curb Basel III Costs
September 4th, 2015
UBS Group AG has shifted more than $5 billion of riskier Asia-Pacific deposits into alternative cash investments as new rules raise the cost of holding them. The world’s largest manager of millionaires’ money has helped some clients such as ...
UBS Unit to Pay More Than $2.9 Million to Investors in Puerto Rico
September 2nd, 2015
Bank’s wealth-management unit ordered to pay two investors for losses tied to island’s municipal bonds UBS AG’s wealth-management unit was ordered to pay more than $2.9 million to two investors in Puerto Rico for losses tied to funds holding ...
UBS to pay $1.7 mln settlement over sanctions case – U.S. Treasury
August 28th, 2015
The U.S. Treasury on Thursday said it had reached an agreement with UBS for the Swiss bank to pay a $1.7 million settlement for “apparent violations” to U.S. sanctions. The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said in ...
Stock Markets update: UBS launches on Xetra & HSBC uses EurexOTC clear
August 28th, 2015
New UBS equity index ETF launched on Xetra ETF provides first-time access to Japanese companies focussed on sustainability A new equity index ETF issued by UBS ETF Sicav has been tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt since Thursday. ETF ...
SEC Charges ITG With Operating Secret Trading Desk and Misusing Dark Pool Subscriber Trading Information
August 13th, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that ITG Inc. and its affiliate AlterNet Securities have agreed to pay $20.3 million to settle charges that they operated a secret trading desk and misused the confidential trading information of dark ...
UBS hires 2 brokers who made $3.5 mln revenue
August 10th, 2015
UBS AG’s Wealth Management Americas said it hired two brokers who produced nearly $3.5 million in revenues last year for their prior employers. Lori Cousineau Weaver joined UBS in Renton, Washington, on July 24. She previously worked at Ameriprise ...