ZURICH (Reuters) -UBS may be seen as being additionally big for Switzerland following its requisition of Credit Suisse, earlier Swiss Finance Minister Ueli Maurer acknowledged on Saturday, with steps required to decrease the threats of the larger monetary establishment.
“If you look at the numbers alone and compare UBS with the Swiss economy, it is too big,” Maurer knowledgeable paper Tages-Anzeiger “Therefore, the risk must be reduced.”
At round $1.7 trillion, UBS’s annual report is twin the dimension of yearly Swiss monetary consequence, providing the monetary establishment phenomenal weight for a major financial state of affairs.
Should the monetary establishment cease working, there aren’t any regional opponents delegated take up it, whereas the value of nationalisation would possibly badly hurt public funds, specialists have truly alerted.
Reducing threats was largely the duty of traders via their possibility of board members, Maurer acknowledged.
“They must take responsibility, not the taxpayers in the end,” acknowledged Maurer, that left office months previous to the final collapse of Credit Suisse in March 2023.
“Legislative measures must also be examined,” acknowledged Maurer, that likewise protected himself after a present legislative document questioned regarding his actions because the Credit Suisse state of affairs aggravated on the finish of 2022.
The Swiss federal authorities in 2015 outlined put together for more durable funding calls for for UBS and Switzerland’s 3 varied different big monetary establishments in a proposal to make the financial market additional sturdy after Credit Suisse’s demise.
Details of the precise funding calls for are but to come up, nevertheless the chance that UBS may be made to carry $15 billion to $25 billion in additional funding has truly glad resistance from the monetary establishment.
Maurer acknowledged if the funding calls for have been too costly, Swiss monetary establishments would definitely no extra be reasonably priced and might sound primarily based some other place.
“For the Swiss economy with its many international multi-nationals, a large bank is a locational advantage,” he acknowledged. “But risks must be minimized.”
UBS decreased to debate the assembly. The monetary establishment’s chief government officer Sergio Ermotti beforehand this month knowledgeable Migros Magazine that UBS had sufficient funding to cowl doable points.
The monetary establishment sustained quite a lot of the Swiss federal authorities’s propositions to spice up monetary guideline, nevertheless they wanted to be targetted and proportionate, Ermotti knowledgeable the publication.
(Reporting by John RevillEditing by Mark Potter)
