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Oswald Gruebel, himself a trader by background, says that UBS wants to take more risk in order to increase profits from Investment Banking...

It is not necessarily a logical consequence that banks that now are required by regulators to scale down their proprietary activities have t...

The spiralling costs of related to the resolution of the 2008 Lehman bankruptcy can only be described as scandalous. Rather than worrying a...

The just published report on the inquiry of events during the 2007-2009 credit crunch puts the blame for UBS ' woes at the door of a la...

There hangs a question mark above London's position as the leading global financial centre. Too much regulation and taxation may well le...

I always felt that the mad scramble to sign up investment advisers or private bankers and pay them massive up-front bonuses in the hope th...

The current EU commissioner in charge of competition policy, Joaquin Almunia , is just another typical example of the career politician who ...

Given the history of the stormy relationship between Goldman Sachs and Matt Taibbi it will be interesting to see who wins the public relat...

Andy Kessler is always interesting to read. In his latest piece in the Wall Street Journal he makes a pessimistic prognosis for the inves...

The standard of public discourse in the United States reaches a new low when respected commentators can argue that the main culprits in the...