Following the SVB crisis, already precarious Credit Suisse has struggled to hold the confidence of investors. UBS has agreed to acquire.
Within a decade, the form factor for computing will radically change from staring at screens with flat imagery, to participating in embedded virtual worlds with fully navigable, hyper-realistic environments. Those environments will be filled with software agents, some hybrid human and others entirely AI, that are entirely unrecognizable as anything but real to 90% of the population.
Buy now pay later firms are quickly becoming the alternative to credit cards during the pandemic; companies like Afterpay, Zip,...
A new survey of 175 banks by UBS shows that larger banks like JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America invest...
StatPro acquired UBS' Delta platform for EUR 13 million ($13.7 million); news of the deal caused shares in the AIM listed StatPro to jump 10%; the deal will help StatPro to reach scale in terms of revenue and clients according to StatPro's CEO Justin Wheatley; the transaction shows that not only banks are able to acquire or partner with fintech firms, but fintech firms can look to acquire parts of a bank as well; in an interview with Business Insider Wheatley explained, "Acquisitions are part of our strategy, however in the short term this is a very big deal for StatPro — it adds 40% to our revenues — I think we'll be digesting this lump for a little while before we carry on but I certainly wouldn't rule out any more deals later on." Source
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On the heels of the Ant Financial IPO news earlier this week leading Chinese online wealth management platform Lufax is...
Writing in the Financial Times Huw van Steenis, former adviser to the governor of the Bank of England and chair...
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UBS has broadly launched its robo advisor service SmartWealth after a limited launch in October; the solution presents another robo advisory service offering by an incumbent financial services provider; portfolio fees range from 1% to 2% with an investment threshold of 15,000 British pounds ($18,500); according to data from Business Insider, Vanguard's Personal Advisor Services leads the robo advisor market with assets under management of $41 billion followed by Schwab with $10 billion and Betterment with $6.2 billion. Source