UBS AG

UBS AG

abbreviation of  United Bank of Switzerland AG 

      major bank formed in 1998 by the merger of two of Switzerland's largest banks, the Swiss Bank Corporation and the Union Bank of Switzerland.

      The Swiss Bank Corporation was founded in 1854 as the Basler Bank-Verein (Basel Bank Corporation) and became a joint-stock company in 1872. It specialized in investment banking. In 1895 its name was changed to Basler und Zürcher Bankverein when it merged with the Zürcher Bankverein (Zürich Bank Corporation). At that time it also began commercial banking, which eventually became its principal activity. After absorbing two other Swiss banks in 1897, the bank adopted the name Schweizerische Bankverein (Swiss Bank Corporation). The bank subsequently acquired or absorbed additional Swiss banks, and it opened branches and representative offices throughout Switzerland and in other countries. The bank's headquarters were in Basel, which had its main office for European banking, while the main office for international banking was in Zürich.

      The Union Bank of Switzerland was founded in 1912 in the merger of the Bank of Winterthur (established 1862) and the Toggenburger Bank (1863). It subsequently absorbed a number of other Swiss banks and became one of the largest commercial banks in Switzerland, with overseas representative offices and branches. Its headquarters were in Zürich.

      By the 1990s, the Union Bank of Switzerland and the Swiss Bank Corporation had become respectively the first and third largest banks in Switzerland, but increasing competition from American financial institutions prompted the two banks to merge in 1998. The resulting United Bank of Switzerland became one of the largest banks in the world. The bank's principal activities include commercial banking, investment banking, and money management. Swiss Bank acquired S.G. Warburg, a financial services company, in 1995, and UBS purchased PaineWebber, a securities firm, in 2000. Both subsidiaries assumed the UBS name in 2003. In October 2008 the Swiss government took a 9 percent stake in and provided 6 billion Swiss francs ($5.36 billion) in capital to UBS, which had suffered tremendous financial losses from American subprime mortgage debt.

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