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Ex-UBS trader Adoboli convicted of $2.3 billion fraud

Kweku Adoboli

Former UBS trader Kweku Adoboli was convicted on Tuesday of one count of fraud related to a loss of $2.3 billion.

 

UBS CEO not resigning, loss mounts to $2.3 billion

UBS CEO not resigning, loss mounts to $2.3 billion

Oswald Gruebel, the chief executive of UBS, has dismissed calls for his resignation as politically motivated, even as the Swiss banking giant raised its estimated loss by a rogue trader to $2.3 billion.

 

Rogue trader suspected in $2 billion loss at UBS

Rogue trader suspected in $2 billion loss at UBS

Swiss banking giant UBS said Thursday that a rogue trader has caused it an estimated loss of $2 billion, stunning a beleaguered banking industry that has proven vulnerable to unauthorized trades. Police in London said they arrested a 31-year-old UBS trader, Kweku Adoboli, in the alleged fraud. UBS declined to confirm his name.

 

UBS fined, will open secret Swiss bank records

Banking giant UBS has agreed to pay $780 million and turn over once-secret Swiss banking records to settle allegations it conspired to defraud the U.S. government of taxes owed by thousands of American clients.

 

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