Friday, 21st November 2008

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  1. Cuomo readies UBS civil suit

    New York state attorney general Andrew Cuomo is ... State securities regulators in Massachusetts have already filed ... The lawsuit also could include allegations of malfeasance ... "A filing of a complaint at this point ... In their June case, Massachusetts regulators named individuals...

  2. French wealth manager said to be hiring top UBS FX trader

    Portway Capital, the French wealth management group, is ... The individual will oversee currency trading strategies at ... Portway Capital currently has about $30bn (€18.8bn) of...

  3. UBS streamlines operations to woo UK wealth management clients

    UBS has unveiled a campaign to integrate its ... Under the plan, more than 10,000 clients with...

  4. UBS hires senior manager for Middle East push

    UBS has hired Per Larsson, chief executive of ... Per Larsson, who is current based in Dubai, ... UBS opened its first representative office in the ... Last week UBS said it had gained conditional ... The Swiss bank also said it intends to ... UBS ranked fifth by investment banking revenues from...

  5. UBS hires Merrill analyst as head of bank research

    Swiss bank UBS has recruited John-Paul Crutchley, a ... Crutchley, who will join in early October, will ... He replaces Gert van Rooyen, who has transferred ... Crutchley was a director in Merrill Lynch’s banks ... He joined Merrill Lynch eight years ago and ... UBS has also hired Omar Fall, a banks...

  6. UBS keeps ticking over like clockwork

    It is a truism of investment banking that ... Such have been the travails of UBS investment ... The bank earned $722m from these activities in ... Simon Warshaw, co-head of European investment banking at ... The loyalty of these clients has been tested, ... The best example of this came last month...

  7. UBS deploys funds chief to run Saudi office

    UBS has drafted in the chairman and chief ... UBS has announced that John Fraser, chairman and ... Fraser, who will be based in London, will ... The office will be led by Mohamed Sammakia, ... UBS hopes to have the office open by ... A spokesman for UBS said that the region ... UBS joins a expanding list of banks who...

  8. Private bank is a crutch for UBS

    UBS, the embattled Swiss bank, has taken more ... Morgan Stanley analyst Huw van Steenis this morning ... Van Steenis believes the private banking sector of ... He added: "But we think the overhang of ... On Friday analysts from Moody's cut UBS' credit ... The ratings agency said the revision "reflects the...

  9. Comment: Is a board shake-up enough to stop UBS sinking?

    For a landlocked nation, it may be inappropriate ... The changes to the board and to the ... They send a strong message to corporate Switzerland ... Four directors with a combined tenure of 31 ... The shake-up shows at least that the new ... Of the 12 members of the board before...

  10. UBS denies Paine Webber sale report

    UBS on Friday rejected a Reuters report which ... "No major business is for sale," Doug Morris, ... His reaction came after Reuters had reported earlier...

  11. Italian police raid Milan offices of four foreign banks

    The Italian tax police yesterday raided the Milan ... Sources with knowledge of the situation said the ... The investigation by prosecutors surrounds a possible fraud ... The raid comes a month after members of ... JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, UBS and Depfa Bank ... The four banks were joint bookrunners for the...

  12. Credit Suisse quant team defects to UBS

    UBS, the Swiss bank in the midst of ... Three portfolio managers and four analysts are to ... Four analysts, Chenye Bao, Sergio Joseph, Jeremy Raccio ... They follow William Weng, who left Credit Suisse ... The team is a new capability for UBS ... John Fraser, chairman and chief executive officer of...

  13. UBS shifts six to Dubai

    UBS is moving six London-based bankers to Dubai ... UBS employs more than 200 staff dedicated to ... Matthew Odgers, executive director in its telecoms team ... UBS added Enrique Febrer-Bowen, a managing director in ... Michael Klimbacher, associate director in UBS’ oil and...

  14. Cheviot offers 50/50 split to UBS

    Cheviot Asset Management is lobbying UBS to let ... Cheviot is led by Michael Kerr-Dineen who sold ... Kerr-Dineen reckons that client accounts worth £2bn which ... He said: "In servicing the Laing accounts following ... As part of any deal, Kerr-Dineen said he ... John Pottage, chief executive of UBS Wealth Management...

  15. UBS rising star quits to go it alone

    One of UBS’ fastest-rising and most senior executives ... Andre Esteves became UBS’ youngest regional head at ... Less than 15 months later, he moved from ... Esteves, who was touted as a future star ... However, Esteves has subsequently opted to leave the ... A source familiar with proceedings said Esteves had...

  16. Money outflows predicted at UBS

    UBS' wealth management business is set for huge ... Kian Abouhossein, a senior analyst at JP Morgan, ... Abouhossein said: "We assume a bearish scenario for ... He added: "In particular, we expect UBS to ... He said that after the end of this ... Separately, UBS faces writedowns of another Sfr5bn in...

  17. Olivant ups the stakes in UBS campaign

    Olivant, the UK investment boutique led by activist ... Olivant has upped its holding in UBS from ... The investment group first raised its stake in ... Olivant campaigned vociferously against the appointment of chairman ... Arnold also argued against a downsizing of the ... The full statement is attached....

  18. Swiss poll blasts management at UBS

    UBS' board of directors has been voted the ... Nestlé, the Swiss food company, was voted to ... A spokesman for Demoscope said UBS had been ... In the previous three surveys UBS was voted ... Yesterday the bank said it will need years ... "I don't believe it will take ten years...

  19. UBS appoints new European equity head

    UBS has appointed William Kennedy to head its ... Kennedy, formerly UBS’ head of sales and structuring ... Gouws filled a vacancy left by Daniel Coleman ... Coleman shared the global head of equities job ... Johansson said Wall’s appointment would enable the bank ... The management reshuffle follows April’s scathing report on...

  20. UBS holds equity research top spot

    UBS has been voted the top bank for ... The Swiss bank has maintained its top position ... UBS has also been named as the top ... Sanford Bernstein food industry analyst, Andrew Wood, was ... Merrill Lynch dominated the individual sector awards, winning ... In the fund management rankings, JP Morgan Asset...

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