29 November 2007

UBS named 'DCM European Banking and Financial Institutions House of the Year'

For the second consecutive year, UBS has been named 'Debt Capital Markets (DCM) European Banking and Financial Institutions House of the Year' in a major awards ceremony.
 
UBS took home the honor in London on Tuesday night, in the Financial News Awards for Excellence in Investment Banking, Europe 2007.

Judges said UBS had worked hard throughout the year to keep ahead of its competitors and the award was in recognition of UBS's efforts across a broad product spectrum - M&A, DCM and Equity Capital Markets.




21 November 2007

UBS increases its capabilities in the United Arab Emirates

UBS continues to build upon its capabilities in the Middle East, with the commencement of trading cash and swaps in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on exchanges in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

The Investment Bank now offers services on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM), the Abu Stock Market (ADSM) and the Dubai International Financial Exchange. All executions will be handled by UBS Emerging Market trading located in London. UBS's London branch will be the booking office.




16 November 2007

UBS puts in solid performance in FX Week's Best Bank Awards 2007

UBS has recorded an impressive performance in FX Week magazine's Best Bank Awards 2007.

The firm took the top prize in six categories, namely: 'Best Bank with Banks', 'e-trading', 'Swiss Franc', 'Post Trade Services', 'FX Prime Brokerage' and, 'Continuous Linked Settlement'.

15 November 2007

UBS launches innovative Options Direct Market Access

UBS has announced the launch of Direct Market Access (DMA) for US Options Trading with 14 leading providers of trading Order Management Systems (OMS) and Execution Management Systems (EMS).

The Investment Bank has been offering DMA to the equities cash market for a number of years as part of the firm's Direct Execution offering. This is in addition to offering US Options electronic smart order routing via UBS's own desktop trading system, UBS Pinpoint, for over a year.

Since the options industry is moving rapidly in the same electronic direction as the cash market, UBS reached out to our third party trading platform partners to offer Options DMA to an even wider base of clients. As a result, even more buy side traders can electronically access available liquidity and efficiently seek best execution.

See press release.

9 November 2007

UBS Delta receives further honors

The Investment Bank's flagship analytics product, UBS Delta, has received further acclaim.

The application was named 'Best in-house developed or proprietary technology' in the Buy-Side Technology inaugural awards ceremony. Buy-Side Technology is a UK-based publication focusing on trading technology for buy-side organizations.




1 November 2007

UBS named No.1 foreign house for Japanese corporate debt 

UBS Securities Japan has become the top-ranked foreign house in Thomson Financial's domestic corporate bond league table.

A string of successful deals has catapulted UBS past other international houses in the Thomson rankings for yen-denominated corporate straight bonds by value, from 1 April - the start of the fiscal year in Japan.

Overall, UBS is in sixth place, up from the 13th spot at the end of March.




1 November, 2007

Robert Wolf wins Corporate Leadership Award

Robert Wolf, Chairman and CEO of UBS Americas and President and COO of the Investment Bank, was recently honored at the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation's (MMRF) 11th annual 'Friends for Life Gala' with the Corporate Leadership Award. The event, which was held at the Hyatt Regency Greenwich and attended by more than 1000 people, raised a record-breaking amount of more than US$2m for cancer research.
 
The Corporate Leadership Award is given annually to business leaders who have worked tirelessly to support and champion the Norwalk-based cancer research foundation's mission to accelerate the search for a cure for multiple myeloma.

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