Space-based broadband company AST SpaceMobile Inc.'s deal with Verizon Inc. is further evidence of its strength in the emerging satellite cellular broadband market, according to UBS.
Swedish climate fintech startup Doconomy told CNBC it's raised 34 million euros ($36.9 million) in a Series B round co-led by the venture arms of UBS and CommerzBank. Founded in Sweden in 2018, Doconomy works with more than 100 financial institutions around the world to help their clients measure the CO2 footprint of their transactions.
Anglo American was downgraded to neutral from buy at UBS, when BHP on Wednesday did not launch a formal takeover bid for the rival multinational mining group, after suggesting it could buy the company for £38.6 billion ($49 billion) in stock.
UBS said it would reshuffle its executive board, splitting leadership of its key wealth-management division in two and bidding farewell to the last chief of Credit Suisse, the troubled banking rival it took over last year.
UBS on Thursday announced a shake-up of its executive board in the latest phase of a radical overhaul of the Swiss banking giant, following its takeover of fallen rival Credit Suisse. A newly split global wealth management division sees the bank double down across the two geographies as part of its "sustainable, strategic growth" strategy.
UBS on Thursday said Rob Karofsky would become head of the Americas and co-president of global wealth management with Iqbal Khan, who will take charge of the Asia-Pacific region as part of shake-up of the Swiss bank's executive board.
National Grid has been punished too harshly for its £7 billion deep discount rights issue, according to analysts at Swiss bank UBS. The share issue hasn't permanently changed the business, says the bank, rather reset the balance sheet back to 2010, when it was “sufficient to fund the business for fourteen years”.
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UBS has moved its S&P 500 index target ahead of a division of its own bank that only last week raised its forecast.
UBS Group (UBS) is well-poised to gain from the strategic acquisition of Credit Suisse and digitalization initiatives. The company's business restructuring efforts are set to support its financials.
UBS has ruled out appointing an outsider as the successor to CEO Sergio Ermotti, and plans to choose from a shortlist of three internal candidates when he steps down in about three years, the Financial Times reported on Monday.
UBS agrees with the vast majority of measures Switzerland's government proposed last month to police its banks, the lender's CEO Sergio Ermotti said on Thursday.