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UBS. UBS Group AG [nb 1] is a multinational investment bank and financial services company founded and based in Switzerland. Headquartered in Zürich, it maintains a presence in all major financial centres as the largest Swiss banking institution and the largest private bank in the world.
29,100 (1996) [1] Union Bank of Switzerland ( UBS) [a] was a Swiss investment bank and financial services company located in Switzerland. The bank, which at the time was the second largest bank in Switzerland, merged with Swiss Bank Corporation in 1998 to become UBS. This merger formed what was then the largest bank in Europe and the second ...
The Swiss investment bank and financial services company, UBS Group AG, has been at the center of numerous tax evasion and avoidance investigations undertaken by U.S., French, German, Israeli, and Belgian tax authorities as a consequence of their strict banking secrecy practices. The first major tax evasion controversy the bank was involved in ...
Barclays Bank (Suisse) SA, Geneva. Barclays Capital, Zurich Branch of Barclays Bank PLC, London. HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA, Geneva. IG Bank S.A., Geneva. Lloyds Bank plc, Londres, succursale de Genève, Geneva. * Standard Chartered Bank (Switzerland) SA (No offices anymore in Switzerland)
Steve Kroft, host of Banking: A Crack In the Swiss Vault In November 2013, the Zürcher Kantonalbank was classified as a systemically important bank in Switzerland by order of the Swiss National Bank (SNB), alongside UBS, Credit Suisse, Raiffeisen (Switzerland) and PostFinance, and must meet stricter capital requirements and prepare contingency plans for times of crisis. In another step toward ...
Julius Baer Group Ltd. Julius Bär Group AG, known alternatively as Julius Baer Group Ltd., is a private banking corporation founded and based in Switzerland. Headquartered in Zürich, it is among the older Swiss banking institutions. In terms of assets under management, Julius Baer is number two among Swiss banks after UBS and the biggest pure ...
Bradley Charles Birkenfeld (born February 26, 1965) is an American private banker, convicted felon, and whistleblower. During the mid- to late-2000s, he made a series of disclosures about UBS Group AG clients, in violation of Swiss banking secrecy laws, to the U.S. government alleging possible tax evasion. [1] [2] Known as the 2007 "Birkenfeld ...
AUM. CHF 140.0 billion [1] Number of employees. 2'094 [1] Website. www .ubp .com. Union Bancaire Privée ( UBP SA) is a private bank and wealth management firm headquartered in Geneva. UBP is one of the largest private banks in Switzerland, and serves private and institutional clients. The bank was founded in 1969 by Edgar de Picciotto.