Tagged: ubs

July 20, 2021 @ 5:47 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week filed a settled action against UBS Financial Services related to compliance failures for sales of a volatility-linked exchange-traded product (ETP). It marks the sixth case for the agency’s ETP Initiative. The ETP was designed to track short-term… Read More

June 29, 2021 @ 2:01 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

European IPO activity has surged during the pandemic, data from BuyShares.co.uk shows.  In 2020 investors saw many IPOs along with outsized average returns, with total IPO deal value up 64 per cent to more than $300 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal and Dealogic…. Read More

April 14, 2021 @ 9:49 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  ConsenSys announced on Tuesday it raised $65 million through its latest investment round. The blockchain company reported that J.P. Morgan, Mastercard, and UBS invested alongside blockchain companies, including Protocol Labs, the Maker Foundation, Fenbushi, The LAO, and Alameda Research. Additional investors include CMT Digital, Greater… Read More

December 8, 2020 @ 9:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ralph Hamers, CEO at UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG), a Swiss multinational investment bank and financial services company based in Switzerland with around $1 trillion in assets, has noted that innovation and collaboration haven’t really been the norm for many traditional financial institutions. Hamers, whose… Read More

November 22, 2020 @ 7:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

This past week it was reported that UBS is looking to beef up its wealthy client business with its new “My Way” platform that is currently catering to customers in Switzerland with other European countries forthcoming as well as Asia.  According to Reuters, the wealth… Read More

July 18, 2020 @ 4:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  The National University of Singapore (NUS), a research-focused academic institution that’s consistently ranked among the world’s top universities, is planning to support the city-state’s next generation of Fintech professionals and full-stack application developers. Introduced in July 2020, the NUS-FintechSG initiative, which is being offered… Read More

July 11, 2020 @ 3:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Switzerland-based UBS Group AG (UBSG:SW), a multinational investment bank and financial services company co-headquartered in Basel and Zürich and Basel with nearly $1 trillion in total assets, has launched a new Big Data software tool that can predict and quantify the probability of a company… Read More

June 5, 2020 @ 8:25 am By JD Alois  |  

Cloud9 Technologies has closed on a $17.5 million Series B funding round led by global bank UBS, with participation from existing investors including JPMorgan and Barclays. Cloud9 has developed a product that uses the “voice communication talk path” for the “trading floor of the future.”… Read More

May 26, 2020 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG), a Swiss multinational investment bank and financial services company based in Switzerland with around $1 trillion in assets, is planning to invest hundreds of millions of dollars of its own funds into various Fintech firms. As reported by Bloomberg (which… Read More

May 22, 2020 @ 1:51 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Aspiration, a U.S.-based neobanking group, announced on Friday it secured $135 million through its Series C funding round, which was led by Alpha Edison with participation from Swiss investment bank UBS. Founded in 2013, Aspiration stated it was born to be the financial firm for… Read More

May 10, 2020 @ 9:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Switzerland-based UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG), a global investment bank and financial services firm with around $1 trillion in assets, recently confirmed that it is planning to launch a digital banking platform that would reduce operational costs and stimulate growth. However, UBS said its plan… Read More

May 8, 2020 @ 7:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Revenues from Fintech are expected to increase from $150 billion in 2018 to $500 billion by 2030 at an average annual growth rate that’s about 3x faster than the larger financial industry’s projected revenue growth, according to a recent report from UBS. The report notes… Read More

February 22, 2019 @ 12:09 pm By Cali Haan  |  

UBS, Switzerland’s largest bank, was fined 4.5 billion Euros ($5.1 billion USD) Wednesday for “aggravated money-laundering of the proceeds of tax fraud” as well as “illegal bank soliciting” for its alleged role in helping wealthy French citizens avoid taxes, Associated Press reports. Five former UBS… Read More

November 4, 2018 @ 7:28 pm By Leyla Mammadova  |  

Pete Stephens, head of the UBS blockchain team, has left to join a Fintech startup, reports the Financial News. He became Chief Information Officer and Head of  Europe, the Middle East and African team at DrumG Technologies according to his LinkedIn profile. Before joining the startup,… Read More

August 6, 2018 @ 9:13 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Proponents like Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey, Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak and former Wall Street analyst Tone Vays envision a world united by single digital currency: Bitcoin. But a new report from UBS, Switzerlands’s largest banking conglomerate, suggests that Bitcoin has a long way… Read More

February 15, 2018 @ 3:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Funding London, the Mayor of London’s SME investment organization, announced on Thursday it has invested in Change Please, which is described as a social enterprise which helps lift people out of homelessness by providing coffee vans, barista training, and accommodation. The investment has been through… Read More

February 18, 2017 @ 8:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Regtech firm Qumram, has received a nice recognition at the 4th Annual WealthBriefing Swiss Awards 2017. Quumrm, a Fintech firm that provides digital compliance and risk management solutions, has been recognized as the “Most Innovative Fintech” by the Swiss private banking and wealth management community. Stephen… Read More

August 25, 2016 @ 12:44 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

UBS and Clearmatics have  joined with BNY Mellon, Deutsche Bank, Icap and Santander to advance the Utility Settlement Coin, an asset-backed digital cash instrument implemented on distributed ledger technology, according to a statement. “Digital cash is a core component of a future financial market fabric… Read More

February 9, 2016 @ 6:06 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Switzerland’s potential as a European fintech hub is being damaged by lack of Government and bank support and a shortage of investment capital, according to a new report by Ernst & Young and Swiss Finance + Technology Association. Despite the advantages incurred by the country’s skilled… Read More

December 12, 2015 @ 10:15 am By JD Alois  |  

UBS has recognized several Fintech firms as part of the UBS Future of Finance Challenge. Winners included Richmond based WealthForge an investment crowdfunding service provider. The competition was global with over 600 participants from 52 different countries. The initiative by UBS is designed to uncover… Read More