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Registered Rep. July 28, 2009 John Churchill	IRS Tailing UBS Bankers and Advisors The IRS has upped the ante in its fight to gather thousands of names of alleged tax-dodging American UBS clients, by sending IRS agents to tail the firm's bankers and financial advisors as they visit clients.
Registered Rep. February 9, 2010 Kristen French	UBS Americas Bleeds More Client Assets in Q4, Advisor Attrition Way Down Clients continued to withdraw significant assets from the firm both in the U.S. and around the world.
Registered Rep. April 6, 2009 John Churchill	IRS Circling, UBS Bans Travel for Some Advisors The United States' ongoing hunt for tax cheats will be putting a crimp in some clients' quarterly portfolio reviews.
Registered Rep. February 18, 2009 John Churchill	UBS Nailed With $780 Million Fine, Admits To Aiding Tax Dodge Clients The U.S. government has taken its pound of flesh from UBS today. According to a Department of Justice press release.
Registered Rep. January 29, 2010 Kristen French	UBS Morale Lifts A number of top financial advisors at the firm say that they are so far very pleased with the leadership of UBS Wealth Management CEO Bob McCann and his team.
BusinessWeek February 11, 2010 Elena Logutenkova	No Time to Rest at UBS The Swiss bank is profitable again - but CEO Grubel still needs to stem the exodus of wealthy clients.
Registered Rep. May 8, 2008	UBS Needs A Lift Ticket UBS is facing serious scrutiny by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice to determine whether or not the bank aided clients in committing tax evasion from 2000 to 2007.
Registered Rep. July 8, 2009	Is UBS' Marten Hoekstra On the Way Out? A story in the Financial Times teasingly suggests UBS US Wealth Management is in for a big change at the top.
Registered Rep. May 1, 2006 John Churchill	Score One for Diversity UBS has hired a prominent black Smith Barney broker.
The Motley Fool July 2, 2008 Tom Hutchinson	UBS Purges Board Heads roll as UBS faces a myriad of financial and legal problems.
Registered Rep. August 5, 2009 French & Churchill	UBS Close to Deal With Bob McCann, Reorg Under Way The move comes as the bank works to contain damage to its reputation done by the tax evasion dispute with the U.S. government.
The Motley Fool November 25, 2011 Shubh Datta	Another Investment Bank Chops and Changes UBS looks to shed its investment banking business.
Registered Rep. January 1, 2007 Halah Touryalai	Spitzer Defends UBS Brokers--No, Seriously Eliot Spitzer announced in mid-December that he thinks the $89 million overtime settlement that UBS agreed to in February 2006 is unfairly distributed, and he's asking a Northern California District Court to reject the proposed settlement amount.
Registered Rep. December 22, 2006 Halah Touryalai	Spitzer Wants More Settlement Dollars for New York UBS Reps New York Attorney General and Governor-elect Eliot Spitzer is asking a Northern California court to disapprove the settlement terms of an overtime suit against UBS.
InternetNews September 11, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston	States Request Microsoft Oversight Extension At a hearing Tuesday regarding the pending expiration of much of Microsoft's antitrust settlement, a group of states requested continued oversight of the software giant.
Registered Rep. November 12, 2008 John Churchill	UBS Executive Indicted, Faces Up To Five-Years Jail Time The U.S. Government's investigation of cross-border business by UBS has resulted in an indictment of Raoul Weil, Chairman and CEO of UBS Global Wealth Management and Business Banking.
The Motley Fool September 20, 2011 Navjot Kaur	UBS Joins the Long Cost-Cutting Line UBS cuts 3,500 jobs to stay profitable.
InternetNews September 25, 2009	Judge's Order Keeps Google Books in Limbo New York judge postpones fairness hearing for controversial settlement agreement in response to DoJ objections.
Registered Rep. February 19, 2009 John Churchill	UBS Wealth Mgt Executive On The Lam; U.S. Promises To Find Tax Cheats--And The Advisors Who Assist Them Allen Stanford isn't the only high profile financial executive currently on the run from authorities.
Registered Rep. July 10, 2007 John Churchill	With Wuffli Out, What Next for UBS? A Wealth Management Surge in the USA Peter Wuffli was replaced as CEO of UBS last week after the firm realized millions of dollars in losses in an internal hedge fund.
Registered Rep. February 25, 2010 Kristen French	Barclays Hires Rejects, Swiss Try to Save UBS Deal, SEC Curbs Shorts Many refugees from the collapse of 2008 ended up at Barclay's... The fate of UBS' U.S. tax-dodging clients is still up in the air... The Securities Exchange Commission voted to permanently curb short sales...
Financial Advisor April 2009	A Swiss Miss The Internal Revenue Service is cracking down on tax cheats hiding money in foreign countries, and financial advisors who have wealthy clients with cash stashed overseas better hope their clients properly reported such funds.
Registered Rep. October 25, 2011 Kristen French	UBS Wealth Management Unit Pulls Into First Place, McCann Tells Troops The "rogue" trading loss and departure of CEO Oswald Grubel doesn't seem to have driven clients away from UBS in the third quarter.
The Motley Fool June 28, 2010 Ivan Martchev	The Swiss Franc Is Almost as Good as Gold On the Old Continent, only Switzerland is a beneficiary of an unraveling euro.
Registered Rep. September 8, 2006 Halah Touryalai	An Offer They Can't Refuse UBS is doing all it can to hold onto as many of the advisors at newly acquired Cleveland-based McDonald Investments as possible -- beginning with a retention package that will be hard to refuse.
The Motley Fool April 2, 2008 Tom Hutchinson	UBS: You Hang In There The Swiss bank looks to cut its losses and put the crisis behind it.
Registered Rep. March 16, 2012 John Aidan Byrne	UBS Betting Big On Asia UBS Wealth Management will embark on a global expansion outside the U.S., announcing yesterday it will hire another 500 advisers in the fast-growing emerging markets and Asia Pacific regions.
Registered Rep. June 6, 2008 John Churchill	UBS Considers Divulging Client Names In Tax Evasion Case The Swiss bank may divulge the names of 20,000 of its wealthy US clients as one of its top private bankers faces a Florida court.
BusinessWeek July 25, 2005 Stanley Reed	The Master Of Zurich How Peter Wuffli turned around UBS- and brought the glory days back to Swiss banking.
BusinessWeek October 27, 2003 Laura Cohn	Swiss Banks: Paradise Lost Tougher rules are just part of what's making this haven less appealing.
Registered Rep. May 5, 2009 John Churchill	UBS Posts Loss But Gains Retail Client Assets UBS posts its first-quarter earnings and blames bad loans on its books for the poor result.
Information Today September 24, 2009	Google Book Search Settlement Hearing to Be Postponed On Sept. 22, the parties involved in the Google Book Search settlement have asked the federal court to postpone the scheduled Oct. 7 hearing to give them time to work with the U.S. Department of Justice so that the parties can amend the Settlement Agreement.
Registered Rep. December 1, 2011 John Aidan Byrne	McCann Reassures UBS FAs as His Profile Grows with New Appointment Robert J. McCann's responsibilities at Swiss bank giant UBS dramatically expanded with a new appointment Thursday.
Registered Rep. October 1, 2006 Halah Touryalai	UBS Offers Hot Retention Bonus UBS is doing all it can to hold onto as many of the newly acquired Cleveland-based McDonald Investments advisors as possible -- beginning with a retention package that will be hard to refuse.
Registered Rep. September 6, 2006 John Churchill	UBS Buys Another Brokerage With the ink still drying on its deal to purchase Piper Jaffray's brokerage arm, Swiss firm UBS announced today it will now buy Cleveland-based McDonald Investments, KeyCorp's brokerage unit.
Registered Rep. February 9, 2006 John Churchill	Pro Or Hourly Wage Earner? UBS Pays $89 Million to Settle Overtime Suits The settlement resolves claims that UBS incorrectly classified financial advisors and financial advisor trainees as exempt from overtime pay under federal and U.S. state laws.
The Motley Fool August 3, 2011 Dan Caplinger	How Strong Currencies Can Kill Stocks If the Swiss currency is doing well, does that mean that you should jump into the Swiss stock market for smart buys as well? The answer may surprise you.
Registered Rep. February 8, 2011 John Aidan Byrne	Some Bright Spots Among the Red Ink for UBS UBS Wealth Management Americas added client assets and a handful of advisors in the fourth quarter, cushioning the blow from steep legal costs that resulted in a pre-tax loss of $34.6 million.
Registered Rep. August 6, 2010 John Aidan Byrne	UBS Advisors Welcome Mortgage Rollout Financial advisors at UBS Wealth Management Americas closely watched this week as the U.S. brokerage rolled out plans to sell more of its own mortgage and lending products through its retail brokerage force.
Registered Rep. February 7, 2012 John Aidan Byrne	UBS' U.S. Brokerage Boosts Profits, Boasts Most Productive Advisors Despite global market conditions that lowered asset-based fees and transaction-based income, UBS Wealth Management Americas ended 2011 on firmer footing, earning $573 million for the year on revenues of $5.96 billion.
Registered Rep. July 28, 2010 John Aidan Byrne	UBS Brokerage Unit Turning the Corner? The "turning point" in client fund outflows is about to appear for UBS Wealth Management Americas.
Registered Rep. December 3, 2009 Kristen French	IRS Investigates Stanford Clients With Offshore Accounts The IRS believes many of Allen Stanford's clients used offshore accounts to conceal income.
Registered Rep. April 16, 2009 John Churchill	UBS to Cut Lower Producing Advisors The 8,700 jobs UBS plans to cut by the end of 2010 will include 2,000 in the Wealth Management division, many of them financial advisors.
Registered Rep. February 10, 2009	UBS Earning Get Kicked In The ARS! U.S. Wealth Mgt Unit Profit Wiped Out By ARS UBS announced a fourth quarter loss of U.S. $7.5 billion, capping a horrendous year for the Swiss firm.
Registered Rep. July 26, 2011 John Aidan Byrne	UBS Wealth Management on the Turnaround UBS Wealth Management Americas continues to improve, reporting pretax profit of $165 million for the second quarter.
Registered Rep. August 27, 2009 Halah Touryalai	Uncertainty at UBS, Can UBS Afford McCann? The latest news out of UBS involves former Merrill executive, Bob McCann, who's dealing with a non-compete clause that's keeping him from supposedly joining the firm.
Registered Rep. October 27, 2009 John Aidan Byrne	McCann Vows to Return UBS Wealth Management To Profitability New CEO Robert J. McCann says the wealth management division of UBS will not be put on the block.
On Wall Street October 1, 2009 Helen Kearney	UBS Weighs Options as the Suddenly Smallest Wirehouse No one can deny it's been a tough year for UBS's wealth management business in the U.S.
The Motley Fool August 13, 2008 Alex Dumortier	Is UBS Calling the End of Universal Banks? UBS is reversing its "one bank" strategy by giving increased autonomy to its three businesses: Investment Banking, Wealth Management, and Asset Management.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2006 John Churchill	Everybody Wants Their Overtime UBS said it has agreed to pay $89 million to settle class-action wage and hours claims of reps filed this past summer in several federal courts.