UBS buys arm of Julius Baer
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UBS continued to sweep up private banking assets yesterday with the purchase of the North America wealth management business of Julius Baer, the Swiss private bank.
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UBS AG, the world&#39;s largest money manager for the rich, agreed to buy Charles Schwab Corp.&#39;s market making, research and institutional trading unit for $265 million in cash, giving it the No.
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U.S.-based fund manager Harris Associates has built a $1 billion stake in troubled Swiss investment bank UBS , the Sunday Times said in an unsourced report.
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MUMBAI: Scottish &amp; Newcastle Plc (S&amp;N), Britain&#39;s biggest brewer, has agreed to buy 37.5 per cent of India&#39;s beer giant United Breweries (UB) Ltd for Rs 466 crore, the two companies announced on Sunday.
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Swiss banking giant UBS launched a 15 billion Swiss franc (9.4 billion euros, 12.3 billion dollars) share buyback scheme on Thursday, covering up to 10 percent of its capital.
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UCB, a Belgian drug maker, said it had agreed to buy Schwarz Pharma of Germany for 4.4 billion euros ($5.6 billion) to gain experimental medicines for ParkinsonÂs disease, epilepsy and bladder control. Schwarz investors will get 91.10 euros a share in cash and stock, 20 percent more than the closing price on Friday, UCB said. The Schwarz-Schuette family, which owns 60 percent of the company, backed the offer. Schwarz, based in Monheim, Germany, is the third European family-owned drug maker to sell in less than a week as the cost of developing new products rises. UCB, which faces patent expirations on its top sellers starting next year, will get three drugs that may provide more than 2 billion euros in annual revenue.
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Dutch banking and insurance group Fortis said that its international insurance arm will acquire the Ukranian insurer Etalon Life, for 7.6 million euros (9.7 million dollars).
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Reportedly, UBS (NYSE: UBS) is in advanced discussions with Charles Schwab (NYSE: SCH) over the acquisition of Schwab&#39;s capital markets division, including the recently integrated Soundview Technology Group.
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UBS is close to a deal to purchase Charles Schwab&#39;s institutional research and trading unit for as much as $300 million, according to Friday&#39;s New York Post.
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New Jersey-based Cytec Industries is to buy UCB Groupâs Surface Specialties business for $1.5bn (E1.2bn). Completion of the deal will turn Cytec into a $2.
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Johannesburg - Britain&#39;s Barclays yesterday signalled a return to retail banking in South Africa after an absence of 18 years, saying it was in talks to buy a controlling stake in Absa, the country&#39;s biggest retail lender.
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Bank of New York Co. said Tuesday that its BNY Brokerage Inc. unit has agreed to acquire the execution and commission management business of investment management firm Wilshire Associates for an undisclosed amount.
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MADRID/NEW YORK  - Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA , Spain's second-largest bank, agreed to buy Compass Bancshares Inc.  for $9.6 billion, realizing a long-held goal of gaining a solid foothold in fast-growing southern U.S. states.
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The world's leading sports management and marketing firm is to be bought by a New York  investment firm for an undisclosed fee.
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UBS AG is to acquire the branch network  of McDonald Investments, a unit of KeyCorp, for up to $280  million, the Swiss investment bank said on Wednesday.
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Swiss banking giant UBS says it will acquire Charles Schwab&#39;s (SCH ) brokerage unit, SoundView Capital Markets, as well as the Capital Markets Division of Schwab for $265 million in cash.
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Swiss banking group UBS said that it had paid 265 million dollars (219 million euros) to buy SoundView, the capital markets division of online broker Charles Schwab to strengthen its position on the US Nasdaq market.