UBS To Terminate 10,000, Or One Sixth Of Its Employees

Friday, October 26, 2012
By Paul Martin

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
10/26/2012

There is down-sizing; there is trimming-the-fat; and then there is UBS. The once-giant Swiss Bank just announced it will cut up to 10,000 jobs. This comes on top of the 3,500 from last year – which makes a rather dramatic weight-loss strategy for the 63,500 employee firm. As the FT reports, they will not happen all at once (so just after the election then?) but will lead to the closure of a sizable part of UBS’ fixed-income trading operations (and other capital intensive areas of the investment bank). Perhaps in the understatement of the day: “There were several options on the table but UBS has decided on the most radical one,” a person familiar commented as the plan is hoped to reduce complexity and costs – so no more Bloomberg Terminals? One thing surely gone is a source of fixed income axes: “The new strategy, hammered out in several executive board meetings in New York this week and set to be announced next Tuesday, will lead to the closure of a sizeable part of UBS’s fixed-income trading operations and other capital-intensive areas of the investment bank.” The winner: Goldman of course, which in a world of collapsing trading revenues has taken to Lehmaning its competition once again, only this time not using brute force but the far more classical war of attrition in a collapsing economy.

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