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French and Swiss central banks hail completed wholesale CBDC trial

The Banque de France, the Swiss National Bank and BIS Innovation Hub are hailing the completion of their cross-border wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC) experiment.

09 December 2021

Company announcement/regulation

EU fines banking giants €344 million over FX price fixing cartel

The European Commission has completed its cartel investigation into the Foreign Exchange (‘Forex') spot trading market by imposing fines on five banks.

02 December 2021

Company announcement/startups

UBS celebrates its first Female Founder Award winner as part of the Future of Finance Challenge

For the first time since starting the Future of Finance Challenge in 2015, UBS has presented a Female Founder Award as part of its Future of Finance Challenge.

08 November 2021

Company announcement/markets

UBS SuMi Trust WM taps NRI post-trade utility service

Nomura Research Institute (NRI), a leading provider of consulting services and system solutions, has begun providing its Prime Settlement Service (PSS) to UBS SuMi TRUST Wealth Management Co., Ltd. (UBS SuMi TRUST WM) from August 10th, 2021.

28 October 2021

Company announcement/markets

FundsDLT and UBS AM explore blockchain-based fund distribution

FundsDLT and UBS Asset Management (UBS AM) have successfully concluded a proof-of-concept pilot that aimed to explore a front-to-back blockchain-based investment fund distribution model.

20 October 2021

News/wholesale

UBS invests in 'Knowledge-as-a-Service' platform Lynk

UBS has invested in Lynk, an AI-driven 'Knowledge-as-a-Service' platform that the bank works with to help its institutional clients in their investment research.

02 September 2021

News/people

Top 25 financial services employers for women: Who is on Forbes’ 2021 list?

Forbes has just released its annual ranking of America’s ‘Best Employers for Women’.

20 August 2021

Company announcement/markets

ION Markets and UBS Bond Port extend partnership

ION Markets, the largest global provider of trading, analytics, and risk management solutions for capital markets, announced today the extension of the partnership between ION and UBS Bond Port, connecting the former’s LatentZero buyside clients to the latter’s Bond Port trading platform.

11 August 2021

Company announcement/markets

Broadridge onboards UBS to digital lender repor platform

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), a global fintech leader, today announced that UBS has joined its transformative distributed ledger repo (DLR) platform.

09 August 2021

Company announcement/regulation

SEC forces UBS to return $8 million to investors in complex ETF product

The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed a settled action against UBS Financial Services Inc. for compliance failures relating to sales of a volatility linked exchange-traded product (ETP).

19 July 2021

Company announcement/startups

UBS opens applications for Future of Finance Challenge

UBS launches its fourth Future of Finance Challenge, an open competition for fintech startups and tech entrepreneurs around the world, held every other year since 2015.

01 July 2021

Company announcement/wealth

Singapore wealthtech Endowus secures investment from UBS, Samsung and Singtel

Endowus.com, one of Singapore’s leading MAS-licensed digital wealth platforms, announced today that it has received investments from strategic partners UBS AG, Samsung Ventures and Singtel Innov8, along with their Series A investors— Lightspeed Venture Partners and SoftBank Ventures Asia.

01 July 2021