Category: Corporate Finance
09/19/11
British Independent Commission on Banking gives advice how to ringfence high risk investment banking
04:17:22 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com, 17 words 
Categories: Stock Market, Corporate Finance
Thanks to Batz for the tip:
Batz: Investment Banking: Denk- und Lesepause? Sept. 18, 2011
Keywords: Investment Banking, TBTF more »
09/18/11
09:26:39 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com 
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Categories: Stock Market, Corporate Finance
After the latest rogue trader scandal in the London branch of UBS it seems to be clear that national bank regulation is not efficient enough to appropriately control foreign investment banking activities of Swiss banking conglomerates. It is extremely di… more »
09/11/11
08:02:46 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 608 words
Categories: Corporate Finance, Econ/Stat
As owner of a Swiss, export oriented company in the machining sector I am going through challenging times. We traditionally export to European countries and the US. Consequently, Euro and Dollar regions. The Swiss franc has appreciated 20 to 30% as compa… more »
05/08/11
09:51:36 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 62 words
Categories: Real Estate, Corporate Finance, Various
Good Batz post, explaining that the implementation of Basel III would not necessarily lead to higher costs for Swiss mortgages and pointing to the fact that banking sector stability is an important element for sustainable GDP growth in a country such as… more »
04/06/11
VOX: International liquidity provision during the financial crisis: A view from Switzerland, by Raphael Auer and Sébastien Kraenzlin, March 31, 2011
Banks across the globe have a high balance-sheet exposure to foreign currencies. During the panic of t… more »
03/28/11
Monika Bütler, one of Switzerland's most influential economists, about people who claim that the 2008 UBS bail out by the Swiss government and the Swiss National Bank was neither necessary nor risky. Such shaky arguments are a consequence of the current… more »
03/18/11
Following short post is in German language as it deals specifically with the capital requirements discussion for Swiss banks:Herr Gisler, Kolumnist bei der Weltwoche, erwähnt wiederholt, dass die Bestrebungen bezüglich grösserer Eigenkapitalanforderu… more »
02/15/11
06:56:38 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 192 words
Categories: Stock Market, Corporate Finance
Bloomberg BusinessWeek: Credit Suisse to Test Appetite for CoCo Bonds With Dollar Sale, Feb. 14, 2011Credit Suisse Group AG’s sale of contingent convertible bonds, or CoCos, will be the first time new demand for the securities has been tested by a pu… more »
02/14/11
A Swiss government panel proposed rules on Monday that would require the nation’s two big banks, UBS and Credit Suisse, to hold more capital in reserve than their international competitors. more »
01/05/11
07:02:38 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 604 words
Categories: Behavioral Finance, Corporate Finance, Econ/Stat
Switzerland can be seen as a pioneer in banking regulation after the last financial crisis. The government early enough set up a "too big to fail" commission with the objective to propose rules which will limit the risk that a bank failure would drag… more »
12/28/10
11:40:08 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 378 words
Categories: Corporate Finance, Econ/Stat
Newsweek: What the Swiss Did Right, Dec. 27, 2010The Swiss faced one of the globe’s worst financial-sector blowups. Now they’re setting the gold standard for how to regulate their banks.During the financial panic of 2008, the Swiss had more reaso… more »
07/28/10
08:08:01 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 268 words
Categories: Stock Market, Corporate Finance
The UBS team has also performed well in the second quarter of 2010 and presents excellent results:
Reuters: UBS outshines Deutsche Bank, as wealth turnaround nears, July 27, 2010
"UBS's (UBS.N) strong second quarter investment banking results stood… more »
09/13/09
FT: Swiss target Brown’s tax rises, Sept. 11, 2009High-earning financiers who are unhappy with Gordon Brown’s plans for a 50 per cent top rate of income tax are being targeted by Swiss cantons hoping to persuade them to decamp to the alpine air and l… more »
12/31/08
11:52:30 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 155 words
Categories: Stock Market, Corporate Finance
Swissinfo: CS sells chunk of asset management firm, Dec. 31, 2008
"The Credit Suisse Group has signed an agreement to sell part of its asset management business in return for a stake of up to 24.9 per cent in Aberdeen Asset Management.
Switzerland's… more »
12/01/08
FT: AIG sells Swiss private bank to Abu Dhabi group, Dec. 1, 2008
AIG on Monday announced that it had sold its Swiss-based private bank to an investor group from Abu Dhabi, its first significant disposal since it was taken over by the US government in… more »
11/23/08
05:15:59 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 169 words
Categories: Stock Market, Corporate Finance, Econ/Stat
Swissinfo: Switzerland keeps credit squeeze at bay, Nov. 22, 2008
"The global credit crunch has yet not affected Switzerland, a top economist has said.
There has been "no trace" of the squeeze according to polls of the Swiss National Bank by the St… more »
10/18/08
10:59:26 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 192 words
Categories: Stock Market, Corporate Finance
This week’s CHF 68 billion bail out UBS has shocked the Swiss people. Now many have the view that the former top executives such as Marcel Ospel should pay back the bonuses they have received during the past years. Part of the Swiss press is very aggress… more »
10/16/08
08:28:54 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 5 words
Categories: Stock Market, Corporate Finance
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07:35:17 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 1908 words
Categories: Stock Market, Corporate Finance
Various Swiss journalists started to see the Swiss banking system as a role model for the globe as they believed that banks such as UBS would not need government help. Now the story looks different:
The Swiss government and the Swiss National Bank (SN… more »
07/07/08
07:44:21 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 145 words
Categories: Stock Market, Corporate Finance, Econ/Stat
MarketWatch: Swiss banks may need to raise $68 billion more Bank regulators to demand higher capital reserves, newspaper reports, July 6, 2008
"The newspaper Sonntag quoted a parliamentarian as saying the nation's Federal Banking Commission would re… more »
XML Feeds- Expertenkommission "Too big to fail"; Schlussbericht
- TOO BIG TO FAIL UND DIE WIEDERHERSTELLUNG DER MARKTORDNUNG, Boris Zürcher, Avenir Suisse
