Freshly empowered European bank chairmen are making perplexing lurches as they search for new chief executives. A random CEO generator might help.

Taking the top job at UBS is a great move for ING chief Ralph Hamers, but it’s less obvious for UBS.

A few big banks in Germany, Switzerland and France pay the majority of the charges their central banks now levy on their reserves – Euromoney looks at which ones are worst affected and asks how they can manage the pain and maintain a conservative approach to liquidity and risk.

UBS Global Wealth Management is the world’s best wealth manager. It is an accolade the firm has enjoyed for 13 of the 17 years of Euromoney’s annual survey. But its financial performance does not match its scale. A new partnership at the top of the firm has a plan to integrate business lines and streamline processes.

Best Private Banking Services Overall Net-worth-specific services: Mega HNW (>$250m) UHNW (>$30mln-$250mln) HNW ($5mln-$30mln) Super Affluent ($1mln-$ 5mln) Capital Markets and Advisory ESG/Impact Investing Family Office Services International Clients Investment Management Next Generation Philanthropic Advice Research and Asset Allocation Advice Serving Business Owners Data Management and Security Innovative or Emerging Technology Adoption

UBS Global Wealth Management retains the top spot; JPMorgan is a standout, too.

Pressure on wealth management profits will become fiercer in the decade ahead as low interest rates prevail. Business heads say global expertise, proximity to clients, technology and providing sustainable investing opportunities will help them win more business.

Being the world’s leading wealth manager presents challenges in this market environment. UBS is coping relatively well.

An art installation shines a light on UBS.

UBS’s country head refuses to comment on whether Banco do Brasil has been given a ‘call option on the bank’s Brazilian IB business’.

It's that time of year again, when we round up what senior management said about your business line in their quarterly earnings calls.

Bankers in Europe have discussed pooling resources across different institutions for some years, as the threat from bigger US rivals has become painfully obvious.

Iqbal Khan replaces Martin Blessing as UBS co-CEO of Global WM; costs still plague both firms.

Didn’t have time to go through your investment banking rivals’ results announcements? Don’t worry, we’ve done it for you, business by business.

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The scourge of short termism.

A UBS economist made an innocuous comment about swine flu in China, and five days later a belief among Chinese speakers that he used a racist term has led to him being suspended, UBS apologizing and it disappearing from a key Chinese bond mandate. Now what?

Euromoney magazine has released the results of its 41st annual foreign exchange survey, the most comprehensive quantitative and qualitative annual study available on the FX markets.

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Wealthy clients increasingly need international products and services. The opportunities are clear for those who can stomach the regulatory hurdles of cross-border business and who can leverage their retail or investment banking connections. Technology investments are crucial, but the competitive landscape is opening up.

After years of investigation, the Hong Kong SFC has come up with its verdict against UBS and three other banks for errant past IPOs. The fines are inconsequential; the disclosure of embarrassing due diligence lapses more significant.

Little confidence profit warning relates to one-off; cost cuts not enough to compensate.

From Deutsche Bank to Santander or ING, banks in Europe need to change with the times and accept accountability to a wider public, represented by their governments: as with weak capital, deficient ethics will only entail greater state control.

Banks hold a lot of art, but how can they justify owning valuable collections, which have no practical use, when their previous extravagances have left their stakeholders in such pain?

Wealth management was built by men for men, but now that women will become the largest beneficiaries of the $30 trillion intergenerational wealth transfer, the industry needs to overhaul itself. If it doesn’t, it will be letting down more than just its female clients.

For many private banks that set up in Asia in the last decade, the cost of doing business kept them locked out of the vast expansion of wealth in the region; those that didn’t leave are settling into a more mature industry, but they are a long way from being able to relax.

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Jürg Zeltner, former chief executive of UBS Wealth Management, explains how the chief investment office was born out of chaos. Its introduction shifted not just UBS but the whole private banking industry to a model of professionalism.