13 (Bloomberg) -- UBS AG and Credit Suisse Group AG, Switzerland's largest banks, were dropped from Bank Sarasin & Cie. AG's “sustainable funds” because of “compliance problems” on tax and trading matters. “UBS is struggling with persistent compliance ...

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-13/ubs-credit-suisse-dropped-from-sustainable-funds-by-sarasin.html

Citigroup (NYSE: C)'s stock had its “buy” rating reaffirmed by equities research analysts at UBS AG (NYSE: UBS) in a research note issued to investors on Monday. Separately, analysts at Evercore Partners initiated coverage on shares of Citigroup in a ...

http://www.localizedusa.com/2011/12/12/ubs-ag-ubs-analysts-reiterate-a-buy-rating-on-citigroup-c/

By Caroline Binham and Megan Murphy in London UBS is braced for more revelations about the inner workings of its London office this week, as a tribunal begins to hear evidence over an alleged $42m fraud that sparked investigations in India and the UK. ...

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e2cd57d8-23f0-11e1-a4b7-00144feabdc0.html

Former staff members at UBS Securities Japan and Citigroup Global Markets Japan had tried to bring unfair benefit to their firms through interest rate manipulation, the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission said Friday. ...

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gFaSUGkqusm0lGVS9i8vEeN3l1Vw?docId=CNG.c397ebb1bf40ad9890eff724b633ac40.1b1

7 (Bloomberg) -- A former UBS AG client, Amir Zavieh, was indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge that he defrauded the US by hiding assets from the US Internal Revenue Service. Zavieh, a San Francisco resident, conspired with five bankers, ...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/12/08/bloomberg_articlesLVU9UI0YHQ0X.DTL

8 (Bloomberg) -- A former UBS AG client, Amir Zavieh, was indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge that he defrauded the US by hiding assets from the US Internal Revenue Service. Zavieh, a San Francisco resident, conspired with five others, ...

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-08/ubs-goldman-hsbc-aetna-citic-pacific-f-1-in-court-news.html

By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne UBS (UBS) said Tuesday that Barry Mitchell–an advisor with yearly fees and commissions of $1.9 million and assets under management of roughly $290 million–joined its New York operations from Merrill Lynch. ...

http://www.advisorone.com/2011/12/06/ubs-grabs-19m-merrill-producer

"We're living through a hinge of history," UBS banker Aryeh Bourkoff says about the fast-changing industry and argues that it could be ripe for some transformative deals. NEW YORK - The 39th annual UBS Global Media and Communications Conference kicked ...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ubs-media-conference-kicks-deals-269539

5 (Bloomberg) -- UBS AG's wealth management unit hired Morgan Stanley's Valerie Chou and Linda Kwo from BNP Paribas SA in Hong Kong, according to an internal memo obtained by Bloomberg News. Chou joined as head of client coverage for the global family ...

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-05/ubs-hires-chou-kwo-for-asia-pacific-wealth-unit-document-shows.html

Take the sentence handed out to Renzo Gadola, at one time a senior banker at UBS (where he worked from 1995 to 2008) advising well-healed Americans how to hide money overseas. See Ex-UBS banker turned songbird pressures Swiss banks. ...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2011/12/03/no-jail-in-ubs-tax-evasion-case/

UBS AG (NYSE: UBS), the investment bank that provides the suite of ETRACS exchange traded notes, has launched two new ETNs designed to let individuals speculate on higher or lower prices across a variety of asset classes, including commodities, stocks, ...

http://www.etftrends.com/2011/12/ubs-introduces-risk-etns-based-on-fisher-gartman-benchmarks/

2 (Bloomberg) -- Working his way through a plate of wild Alaskan halibut at a restaurant a couple of blocks from Radio City Music Hall in New York, UBS Securities LLC Chief Economist Maury Harris holds forth in a slight Texas twang on what he expects ...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/12/01/bloomberg_articlesLVJO881A1I4H.DTL

1 (Bloomberg) -- China International Capital Corp. turned more positive on Chinese stocks after the central bank cut lenders' reserve-requirement ratio, while UBS AG sees a gain of up to 30 percent for the benchmark index next year. ...

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-11-30/cicc-turns-more-positive-on-china-stocks-ubs-sees-30-gain.html

30 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Bank of America Corp. and UBS AG led the world's biggest banks in having their ratings cut by Standard & Poor's as debt of financial firms heads for its worst month since the credit crisis. ...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/11/29/bloomberg_articlesLVGCOQ6S9728.DTL

29 (Bloomberg) -- UBS AG and Citigroup Inc. cut China growth forecasts for 2012 as home sales slide and Europe, the nation's biggest export market, faces the risk of a recession. Gross domestic product will increase 8 percent in 2012, ...

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-11-29/ubs-citigroup-cut-china-gdp-estimates-on-europe-recession.html

As Carsten Kengeter, the investment banking chief of UBS, began his presentation on the future direction of the unit, he said: “It certainly does not feel like a year since our last investor day in London. The world today is a lot more uncertain; ...

http://www.efinancialnews.com/story/2011-11-28/ubs-plots-path-profitability?mod=sectionheadlines-PE-IB

26 (Bloomberg) -- Europe's monetary union may unravel sooner than the region's leaders can mobilize to ensure the sovereign-debt crisis doesn't overwhelm the currency, a UBS AG foreign exchange strategist wrote. "Financial markets continue to move ...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/11/26/bloomberg_articlesLVAA1Z0D9L35.DTL

25 (Bloomberg) -- Jefferies Group Inc. has hired at least seven UBS AG bankers in Hong Kong in the past two months after luring Ren Wang from the Swiss lender to become its Asia president, three people with knowledge of the matter said. ...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/11/25/bloomberg_articlesLV84XU0D9L35.DTL

By Cathy Chan - Fri Nov 25 04:33:48 GMT 2011 Jefferies Group Inc. (JEF) has hired at least seven UBS (UBSN) AG bankers in Hong Kong in the past two months after luring Ren Wang from the Swiss lender to become its Asia president, three people with ...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-25/jefferies-said-to-lure-ubs-bankers-in-asia-after-hiring-ren-wang.html

24 (Bloomberg) -- UBS AG Chief Executive Officer Sergio Ermotti said he wouldn't consider bonds of any euro- region country as free from risk as the sovereign-debt crisis intensifies. “The concept of risk free no longer exists,” Ermotti, ...

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-11-23/ubs-s-ermotti-says-no-euro-region-sovereign-bond-is-risk-free.html

UBS Investment Research has said in a report to clients that the European Union's emissions trading scheme has cost $287 billion for "almost zero impact" when it comes to cutting pollution. Opposition climate action spokesman Greg Hunt on Wednesday ...

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/labor-dismisses-ubs-emissions-report-20111123-1nudh.html

21 (Bloomberg) -- UBS AG, Switzerland's largest bank, said Ed Carroll and Hector Freitas will take over as co-heads of its commodities business, which will be moved into its Macro business which includes rates and foreign exchange. ...

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-11-21/ubs-names-ed-carroll-hector-freitas-to-head-commodities.html

The notes were from Matthew Koder, former king of equity capital markets at Swiss banking giant UBS AG, and now tasked with shaking things up at BofA and boosting its banking business across Asia. "Like I said at my first Monday morning meeting, ...

http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/11/21/idINIndia-60632820111121

By Jane Fetterly Robert E. DeForest, who was listed last week as one of the top wealth managers in South Florida by the South Florida Business Journal, has joined UBS Palm Beach, 440 Royal Palm Way, as senior vice president of investments. ...

http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/business/ubs-palm-beach-lands-honored-wealth-manager-robert-1981283.html?cxtype=rss_columnists_300650

By Lynnley Browning and Kevin Gray MIAMI (Reuters) - A light sentence handed down on Friday for a former top UBS private banker who became a US government informant on wealthy American tax cheats ramps up pressure on the Swiss banking industry. ...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/19/us-swiss-banker-probation-idUSTRE7AI00320111119