28 November, 2006

UBS hosts Press Freedom Awards reception

UBS played host in New York recently to a reception honoring the recipients of the Committee to Protect Journalists' 2006 International Press Freedom Awards.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is an organization that promotes freedom of the press worldwide by defending the rights of journalists to report the news without fear of reprisal. Each year the CPJ hosts an annual award dinner to honor journalists from around the world.

Paul Steiger, board chairman of the CPJ and managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, and CNN's Christiane Amanpour, who hosted the event, were among the approximately 70 guests. UBS executives included Mark B. Sutton, Chairman and CEO, UBS Americas, Robert Wolf, COO for the Investment Bank and Marten Hoekstra, Head of Wealth Management US.

16 November, 2006

UBS has the sixth most valuable financial brand in the world

The Banker magazine has compiled a listing of the most valuable financial brands in the world. UBS came in sixth overall, and was the third most valuable European brand.

The respected UK-based financial magazine, currently celebrating its 80th year in circulation, opened its article with some probing questions: If banks provide more or less the same service, why is one bank preferred over another? How can banks differentiate themselves?

16 November, 2006

UBS tops FX Week's annual client survey

For the fourth year running, UBS is the top-rated bank in FX, according to FX Week's annual client survey of the market.

As well as picking up the award for ‘Best Overall Bank in FX', the firm took the top prize in six other categories, namely: ‘Best Bank with Banks', ‘Best Bank for Spot', ‘Euro/Yen', Swiss Franc', ‘Post Trade Services', and ‘FX Prime Brokerage'.

UBS also came second in further six categories, including: ‘Forward FX', ‘Currency Options', ‘FX Structured Products', ‘FX in the Eurozone', ‘Dollar/Yen' and ‘E-trading'.

The magazine praised UBS's ability to "retain pole position with continuing loyalty from its extensive bank customer base". With bank clients UBS was voted in first position in an impressive 50% of the categories polled.

15 November, 2006

UBS joins consortium to establish new Multilateral Trading Facility

UBS announced its involvement in the establishment of a new Multilateral Trading Facility for pan-European equities trading. This new platform is being created by a consortium of seven investment banks: Citibank, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and UBS.

See Press Release.

10 November, 2006

UBS performs well in inaugural Euromoney Credit Trading Poll

UBS delivered a strong performance in Euromoney's inaugural Credit Trading Poll, achieving second place overall.

The firm took first place in the 'Asset Backed' category, with second placings in 'Investment Grade Corporate', 'Investment Grade Credit Indices', 'Banks and Other Financial Institutions', and 'High Yield Indices' categories.

The survey polled banks, real money funds, hedge funds, government investment agencies and central banks. A total of 189 nominations were received, mainly from the European investor base.

6 November, 2006

UBS displaces Citigroup in top spot in FinanceAsia poll

UBS has received yet another accolade, topping FinanceAsia's Fixed-Income Research poll. This follows a solid month for UBS, which was named Best Equity Derivatives House in Asia by AsiaRisk, and triumphing in Asiamoney's Broker Poll.

FinanceAsia noted that ‘the UBS juggernaut continues to gather speed' in the poll, which is designed to reflect the outlook for Asia's fixed-income investor community.

1 November, 2006

UBS named AsiaRisk's Equity Derivatives House of the Year

Citing the depth of innovation, quality of service and advances in technology that have improved both speed of execution and pricing in UBS's equity derivatives business, AsiaRisk has named UBS its Equity Derivatives House of the Year.

In what was described as a fiercely contested category, AsiaRisk stated that UBS impressed with its reputation for quality of service and its ability to structure products to suit a wide range of risk appetites.

In addition, UBS was named ‘Derivatives House of Year, Australia’. The publication said that as a result of the firm's seamless integration between its Australia business and global divisions, clients truly benefited from a greater range of structures, trades and products.

The awards follow hard on the heels of UBS's success in Asiamoney's Equity-linked Structured Products Poll in July, which canvassed clients of the structured products group across the region.

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