The largest financial holding group in Europe: UBS (English UBS, Chinese UBS Group AG). At first, there were eight big banks in Switzerland. After many mergers and reorganizations, especially 1993 and 1997, there have been two heavyweight "elephant marriages" (credit banks and people's banks, joint banks and banking companies). Today, there are only two big banks in Switzerland, namely UBS Group AG and Credit Suisse Group. But for these two companies, their total assets and liabilities account for 62% of the entire Swiss banking industry, and the number of employees accounts for 52.7% of the total number of bank employees. They cover more than 40% of credit business and nearly 40% of real estate mortgage business in Switzerland, and Swiss inter-bank business is mainly undertaken by them. The main business departments of big banks also include asset management, stock trading, foreign exchange trading, precious metal trading, letter of credit, guarantee and financial derivatives trading. Their branches and service networks are all over the world. After the merger, UBS's total assets and total liabilities ranked fourth in the world. After merging with Fengtai Insurance Company, the second largest insurance company in Switzerland, Credit Suisse Group became one of the largest financial services groups in the world, ranking first in the field of asset management of private and public institutions. )

200 1 total assets at the end of the year 1. 18 trillion Swiss francs, and the off-balance sheet assets under management exceeded 2.0 trillion Swiss francs. The net profit in 2002 was 3.5 billion Swiss francs. Swiss bank has 95 branches in 50 countries and about 49,000 employees worldwide.

UBS Group AG Group AG covers all major financial centers in the world, with offices in more than 50 countries and more than 75,000 employees worldwide. Among them, 39% employees are in the United States, 36% in Switzerland, 65,438+06% in other European countries, and 9% in the Asia-Pacific region. UBS is a Swiss listed company, which is listed on Swiss Stock Exchange, new york Stock Exchange and Tokyo Stock Exchange.

As of June 65438+February 3, 2005, the total assets of UBS Group AG AG were 2.6520 trillion Swiss francs, about 16.6280 trillion RMB.

In Switzerland, UBS is the market leader of retail banks and commercial banks, managing more than 3 million personal accounts and mortgage accounts, and serving about 2.6 million local individual customers. At the same time, it provides comprehensive banking and securities services for nearly 136500 corporate customers, institutional investors, public enterprises and foundations, and more than 3000 financial institutions.

The business of UBS Group AG Group AG mainly includes wealth management, investment banking and securities and asset management.

UBS won the Outstanding Investment Award of Global Stock in 2005 by Global Investor magazine; By the South China Morning Post and Standard & Poor's jointly rated as the best fund management company in Hong Kong in recent five years; In 2005, he won the Best Fund Award from Lipper in Hong Kong, Japan and Switzerland.