UBS

A Swiss bank that UBS bought helped rich Americans evade taxes even after pledging to stop the practice.

UBS France retaliated against its former auditor by sidelining him and refusing to promote him to executive director after he disclosed information to bosses.

Officials are weighing whether the bank — now owned by UBS — breached a 2014 plea deal in which it paid $2.6 billion and admitted helping Americans evade taxes.

UBS Group is close to making a settlement of at least hundreds of millions of dollars over violations by Credit Suisse of a decade-old agreement with the DOJ.

A French unit of the Swiss lender is accused of sidelining and slashing the bonus of a former auditor who was penning a report on potentially unlawful behavior.

UBS Group AG was asked by a powerful U.S. lawmaker about whether the bank it acquired, Credit Suisse Group, failed to report an American accused of evading taxes on $350 million in income.

A former auditor, Nicolas Forissier was made a "chevalier" — or knight — of France's National Order of Merit during a ceremony at the Senate in Paris.

The audit fee for the combined group is expected to be less than the sum of the standalone audits, but would still be one of the highest in global banking.

Employees in investment consulting, compliance, legal and audit would worry over their jobs, given duplications with UBS.

Cracks are forming in the trajectory of profits, and just as worryingly in the makeup of the profits themselves.

The whistleblower may be getting closer to forcing French authorities to compensate her for helping uncover about $10.2 billion taxpayers stashed away in Swiss bank accounts.

The bank has already won a significant reduction of its previous penalties.

A French court of appeals upheld a 2019 finding that the bank had illegally helped clients hide money, but levied less than half the original penalty.

A former UBS Group AG executive who is trying to reverse a conviction at a landmark tax trial couldn’t remember the assets managed by his team focusing on French clients out of Switzerland.

UBS Group AG questioned investigators’ dealings with a whistleblower who provided documents and evidence about an event for wealthy clients at the French Open that helped lead to a record 4.5 billion-euro ($5.4 billion) penalty.

Credit Suisse Group AG faces a criminal probe amid suspicions it helped more than 2,600 clients to hide money in Swiss accounts, Belgian prosecutors said.

With Joe Biden leading President Donald Trump in the polls, some investors are concerned the age of corporate tax cuts and deregulation may soon end, replaced by a Democratic administration eager to soak the rich.

The former chief executive officer of HSBC Holdings Plc’s Swiss private bank pleaded guilty to helping wealthy clients hide assets worth at least 1.6 billion euros ($1.8 billion) as French prosecutors flex their muscles to tackle white-collar crime.

A looming Swiss Supreme Court ruling could add to the bank's woes.

A Paris court found the bank guilty of helping wealthy French clients stash undeclared funds in Swiss accounts.