Senior bankers at UBS have raised concerns about using Bloomberg and other external chat groups to share confidential information about clients, in the latest sign of banks clamping down on online security.
Here's the email sent by UBS trader Kweku Adoboli to internal bank accountant William Steward advising that things might not be the way they seemed. Soon after, the shit really hit the fan.
UBS was ordered to face a whistle-blower lawsuit by a former commercial mortgage-backed securities strategist who said he was fired for telling supervisors he was being pressured to publish misleading reports.
UBS plans to increase its Asia corporate advisory and capital markets team by 10% over three years to tap expansion in the world’s fastest-growing region.
The chairman of UBS has agreed to meet activist investor Knight Vinke to discuss demands to hive off its investment bank into a separate business.