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UBS Group AG [nb 1] is a multinational investment bank and financial services company founded and based in Switzerland. UBS is headquartered simultaneously in both Zürich and Basel. [9] UBS maintains a presence in all major financial centres as the largest Swiss banking institution and the largest private bank in the world.
Robert Wolf (born March 8, 1962) [1] is the former Chairman and CEO of UBS Americas [2] as well as the president [3] and chief operating officer of UBS Investment Bank.. He is the founder of 32 Advisors, [4] a holding company which includes the direct investing arm 32 Ventures, the bipartisan economic insights company Strategic Worldviews, and advisory services for corporate clients on ...
Audits of dormant accounts ordered by the Swiss government in 1962 and 1995 showed a total of $32 million (1995 dollars) in unclaimed war-era accounts. In 1997, the banks published a list of dormant accounts in newspapers abroad. Among the names, then American ambassador, Zurich-born Madeleine Kunin, found Renee May, her mother, who died in ...
UBS also entered the life insurance business in 1993 establishing UBS Life. UBS formed a joint venture with Swiss Life in 1995, known as UBS Swiss Life. UBS took a 25% ownership position in Swiss Life in exchange for a 50% share in the joint venture. [5] UBS entered the 1990s clearly the largest and most conservative of the three large Swiss Banks.
He discovered that officials at UBS were destroying documents about orphaned assets, believed to be credit balances of deceased Jewish clients whose heirs' whereabouts were unknown, as well as books from the German Reichsbank. [1] They listed stock accounts for companies in business during The Holocaust, including BASF, Degussa, and Degesch. [2]
Credit Suisse Group AG (French pronunciation: [kʁe.di sɥis], lit. ' Swiss Credit ') is a global investment bank and financial services firm founded and based in Switzerland as a standalone firm but now a subsidiary of UBS.
UBS Group AG building in St. Gallen.UBS maintains strict banking secrecy practices which have been used to facilitate tax evasion. 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 ...
In 2016, Union Bancaire Privée was ordered to pay Internal Revenue Service $187 million USD in penalties for conspiring with U.S. taxpayers to evade taxation, through the use of fraudulent services and transactions in order mask the ownership of foreign-owned accounts and assets.