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UBS Shareholder Calls for Split with Investment Bank

A UBS AG (UBS) investor called for the Swiss lender to hive off its investment banking business that "nearly destroyed" it during the financial crisis, striking an antagonistic note on the day of the bank's annual shareholder meeting.Knight Vinke Asset Management, a New York-based activist investor, published an open letter in which it said that UBS's investment bank is risky and threatens the bank's core business of managing assets for wealthy clients."We question the merits of keeping the investment bank under the same roof as the wealth management and Swiss banking businesses," Knight Vinke Chief Executive Eric Knight wrote.Knight Vinke owns about 1% of UBS, according to a spokeswoman for the investment firm. In the past, even with small stake holdings, the group has proved influential with other investors, although in its letter it gave no indication whether other shareholders supported its calls.The challenge comes just days after UBS, Switzerland's largest bank by assets, posted ...

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    UBS AG is expected to be hit with a $1 billion-plus fine to settle charges of rigging Libor interest rates this week, making it the second bank to be brought to book...

  2. UBS faces $1.6 billion fine over Libor rigging: paper

    UBS faces a fine of 1.5 billion Swiss francs ($1.63 billion) to settle interest rate rigging charges, a Swiss newspaper reported on Saturday.Citing unnamed sources, ...

  3. UBS to admit Japan criminal wrongdoing in Libor case: sources

    UBS will admit to criminal wrongdoing by its Japanese arm, where one of the Swiss bank's traders manipulated yen Libor and euroyen contracts, to secure a $1-billion-...

  4. UK watchdog fines UBS over trading scandal

    UBS was fined 30 million pounds ($48 million) by Britain's financial watchdog and put under extra scrutiny by its Swiss counterpart over failings that allowed a rogu...

  5. Swiss regulator beefs up control measures at UBS

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    Britain's financial regulator fined Swiss investment bank UBS 29.7 million pounds ($47.6 million) for system and control failings that allowed Kweku Adoboli to cause...

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  8. Swiss Regulator Finma Tightens Control Measures On UBS

    The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority Finma Monday said it will appoint an independent third party to ensure corrective measures are successfully implemen...

  9. Rogue Trader Could Cost UBS $80 Mln Fine: Report

    UBS faces a fine of as much as 50 million pounds ($79.7 million) and new supervisory measures for oversight failures that led to a $2.3 billion loss at the hands of ...

  10. UBS Trader Gets 7 Years for $2.3B Fraud

    Former UBS trader Kweku Adoboli was convicted and sentenced to seven years in jail on Tuesday for the biggest fraud in British history, which resulted in a loss of $...

  11. UBS "rogue trader " jury warned against anti-bank bias

    The judge in the trial of alleged UBS rogue trader Kweku Adoboli told the jury on Monday not to let their views about the banking industry influence their judgment.A...

  12. UBS "rogue trader " denies he was addicted to gambling

    Accused UBS "rogue trader" Kweku Adoboli denied on Monday that he was addicted to gambling, saying that big losses on his personal betting accounts were due to his l...

  1. Expectations low for UBS bankers awaiting bonus awards

    Swiss bank UBS AG will tell its employees on Wednesday what bonus, if any, they will be receiving for 2012, a year in which staff endured a radical restructuring and...

  2. UBS lays off 35 senior bankers in the Americas

    UBS AG cut roughly a third of its Americas investment banking and capital markets group this week, including 35 senior managing directors, three sources close to the...

  3. UK finance job sackings and suspensions at five-year high: law firm

    The number of financial services staff sacked or suspended in Britain last year for reasons such as wrongdoing reached the highest level in five years, law firm Pins...

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    With pay levels and reputation under attack, investment banks are changing tack to lure graduates, dumping brash presentations with get-rich-quick appeal in favor of...

  5. UBS faces fight to uphold reputation among super-rich

    Private clients who have stood by UBS through repeated scandals will have their faith tested by the Swiss bank's admission of rate rigging, investors say.Chief execu...

  6. Timeline: Troubles mount at Swiss bank UBS

    UBS's $1.5 billion fine for rigging global benchmark interest rates is the latest blow for the Swiss bank which has already suffered hefty losses from past mistakes....

  7. UBS to Pay $1.5B Fine for Rigging Libor: Source

    Switzerland's UBS (NYSE:UBS) is set to pay the second-largest fine ever levied on a bank on Wednesday when it admits that a group of its traders rigged Libor interes...

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