UBS

331 results about this entity

Period: 20 Sep 2004 - 07 Nov 2024

Wall Street M&A advisors charged over insider trading

Mergers and acquisitions professionals from UBS and Blackstone Advisory Service have been charged by US authorities with feeding confidential information to an insider trading ring that generated over $11.6 million.

UBS appoints Peter Sany, chief technology officer

Swiss banking giant UBS has named Deutsche Telekom group CIO Peter Sany, as chief technology technology officer and head of ITI, effective April.

UBS to switch clearing to SIS X-Clear

UBS is set to become the first London Stock Exchange client to switch its clearing from incumbent provider LCH.Clearnet to Switzerland's X-Clear, under a new competitive clearing regime introduced by the LSE in September.

UBS launches Malaysian DMA as exchange prepares new trading platform

UBS has launched direct market access (DMA) on Bursa Malaysia, and rolled out its proprietary execution management system, UBS Sapphire, as the exchange prepares to switch to its new cash equities trading platform on Monday.

UBS buys minority stake in Governance Metrics International

UBS has purchased a minority stake in research advisory firm Governance Metrics International, providing the Swiss investment bank with access to GMI's proprietary content and database.

UBS cuts 2000 investment bank jobs

Swiss bank UBS is axing around 2000 investment banking jobs as part of an overhaul designed to "recalibrate" the business and weather the crisis in the financial markets.

Banks back TradeWeb STP network

TradeWeb says its dealer-owners have committed to use its expanded straight-through processing (STP) platform for the voice and electronically-traded fixed income securities that they trade with customers.

Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and UBS in dark liquidity pact

Wall Street banks Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and UBS have agreed a series of bi-lateral agreements that will allow their US clients to access each bank's dark liquidity pools.

UBS launches ATS in US

Swiss investment bank UBS says its global equities business has launched an alternative trading system (ATS) for crossing orders in US stocks.

Citi CEO takes aim at IT budgets under major cost reduction programme

Information technology budgets at Citigroup are set to be slashed under a massive cost-reduction programme ordered by new CEO Vikram Pandit.

Rainbow in talks with LSE over EDX

Rainbow - the European exchange being set up by investment banks - has approached the London Stock Exchange about taking over the bourse's EDX derivatives business and making it the basis of its new trading platform.

Markit to launch multi-dealer valuations platform

UK market data vendor Markit Group is working with six Wall Street banks to launch a global, multi-bank, cross-asset client valuations platform.