UBS

A week can be a very long time in financial markets. UBS acquiring Credit Suisse for CHF 3 billion a week ago would have seemed like a terrific deal. Now the position is less clear. Credit Suisse likely experienced significant net outflows of client assets last week, eroding its revenue base. We, however, believe that UBS can extract value from the acquisition.

UBS, the world’s leading global wealth manager, is expecting a year of discovery that will reveal what a new “normal” looks like, after two years marked by lockdown and reopening. 2022 is expected to be ‘a year of two halves’, with high rates of economic growth and inflation in the first half, giving way to lower growth and inflation in the second...

UBS announced that Ros Stephenson has been appointed Global Chairman of Corporate Client Solutions (CCS) and the Head of CCS Americas. Ros will join as a Group Managing Director and report to Andrea Orcel, CEO of UBS Investment Bank.

UBS offers to buy back certain outstanding tier 2 and senior bonds for cash up to approximately CHF 2.15 billion.

For two months now, successive waves of layoffs in the banking sector occurred. ABN AMRO, the latest bank to announce a downsizing plan, will suppress 9% of its workforce. Goldman Sachs will lower salaries...