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Axel Weber

Axel Alfred Weber (born 8 March 1957 in Kusel) is a German economist, professor and banker. He teaches at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and is a board member and chairman of the board of UBS.

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UBS Appoints Ermotti as Permanent CEO

UBS (NYSE:UBS) named its interim chief executive officer Sergio Ermotti to the permanent role on Tuesday, responsible for heading up the investment bank’s turnaround and refocusing the company’s strategies.

Ermotti, 51, was appointed interim CEO in September after Oswald Gruebel resigned over a rogue trading scandal that cost UBS $2.3 billion.  The Swiss bank says it picked Ermotti after a comprehensive evaluation process.The company’s current chairman, Kaspar Villiger, will not run for re-election at the annual investor meeting in May 2012. UBS noted that if Axel Weber is voted to the board, he will immediately become its chairman. “Now we have stabilized UBS, turned it into one of the world's best capitalized financial institutions, and defined its future strategy,” Villiger said. “I feel it is time to accelerate the planned leadership change at the highest levels of the bank.”UBS said its board has backed the bank’s strategy, which is making the investment bank more focused, less com...

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  5. Rogue Trader Cost UBS $2B, Bank Says

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  9. Instant view: ECB's Stark to leave over bond-buying row: sources

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  11. Germans lead resistance to ECB bond buying

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  12. ECB Holds Rates at 1.5%

    The European Central Bank kept interest rates at 1.5 percent as expected on Thursday, but may signal it is back in crisis mode at its upcoming news conference as the...

  1. Analysis: ECB doomed to bigger crisis role despite itself

    By Paul TaylorAsk senior European Union policymakers in private what can stop the euro zone's festering sovereign debt crisis and the answer is "the European Central...

  2. UBS' Villiger should go in May, honorary chairman tells paper

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  4. Shareholder Activist Group Calls For More Top Brass Change At UBS

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  5. UBS Chief Gruebel Resigns

    UBS investors gave a cautious welcome to the Swiss bank's new caretaker chief executive on Monday after Oswald Gruebel resigned in the wake of a $2.3 billion rogue t...

  6. ECB fights to avoid role in euro zone rescue fund

    By Marc JonesWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The European Central Bank battled to avoid being dragged further into the area of fiscal policy this weekend, as its policymakers...

  7. UBS chief seeks backing for investment bank, leadership

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