UBS Facts for Kids

UBS AG is a Swiss finance company. It is an investment bank. 60,000 people work with them in total around the world. The headquarters are in Zürich.

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The UBS Investment Bank's Offices at 299 Park Avenue in New York City
UBS U.S. wealth management headquarters at Lincoln Harbor in Weehawken, New Jersey
The entrance of UBS Tower at One North Wacker Drive, a 50-story skyscraper in downtown Chicago
UBS Investment Bank's former offices in Stamford, Connecticut. At roughly the size of two American football fields, it was the largest column-less trading floor in the world.
UBS and Credit Suisse branches next to each other in Zurich
Swiss Bank Corporation logo (ca. 1973), featuring the three keys meant to symbolize confidence, security, and discretion
The St. Gallen, Switzerland, offices of Swiss Bank Corporation c.1920
1966 Union Bank of Switzerland logo, featuring the two acronyms of its English and French names (UBS) and its German counterpart (SBG)
UBS held large amounts of stolen gold in their bank vaults during World War II. Pictured: A UBS-issued gold bar, melted down from "unclaimed assets" deposited in the bank.
In 1917, the Union Bank of Switzerland opened a new headquarters on Bahnhofstrasse (pictured above) in Zürich.
After the two banks merged, they became known solely as "UBS" while retaining the Swiss Bank Corporation's "three keys" icon.
UBS PaineWebber logo in use from 2001 until 2003 when the use of the Paine Webber brand was dropped
UBS Warburg was the brand used for the Investment Banking division of UBS from 1999 to 2003.
UBS Financial Services (left) in Frankfurt, 2012
UBS building on Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan
Protestors outside of UBS's Zürich headquarters, 2009
UBS world headquarters in Zürich's Paradeplatz
A UBS retail bank for private wealth management in St. Gallen, Switzerland
UBS Europe SE Headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
The third key in the UBS logo is meant to stand for banking secrecy.
An entrance to a UBS Wealth Management office in Milan, Italy. With a strike-plated door and frosted glass, its purpose is to provide security and banking discretion.
The French supreme court, Cour de Cassation, ruled against UBS in their 2014 appeal of tax evasion.
The largest UBS operations across Switzerland

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