The Latest Breaking News from UBS

Shares in the midsized lender continued to tumble as fears grow about First Republic's financial health grow even after it received a $30 billion lifeline from its bigger rivals last week.

Credit Suisse employs around 5,500 people in the UK

Financial authorities are now trying to prevent problems spreading throughout the global banking system and a repeat of the disastrous financial meltdown of 2008

The aftermath of the SVB collapse led to heavy losses on the London Stock Exchange and a sharp fall in US banking stocks

More global banking drama. The Swiss banking giant UBS has acquired its rival Credit Suisse for £2.6 billion in an emergency rescue deal.

The Swiss lender with nearly $575 billion in total assets collapsed at first slowly, then all at once.

Global banking system is under pressure amid row over who should lose out first when a bank struggles

What will the Federal Reserve and Bank of England do with benchmark interest rates in the wake of the banking crisis? Traditionally, controlling inflation has been the prime mandate of central banks.

Globally connected Credit Suisse has been taken over by rival UBS at the urging of Swiss authorities to avoid a collapse that could have sent shock waves through the global economy

The banking sector is currently experiencing great strain, which has resulted in several bank bailouts – most recently UBS’ deal to buy its Swiss competitor Credit Suisse following a collapse in confidence in the latter. HSBC’s acquisition of the UK arm of the collapsed Silicon Valley Bank the previous week…

The Metropolitan Police. The Democratic Unionist Party. Xi Jinping in Moscow. Boris Johnson at the Privileges Committee. UBS acquiring Credit Suisse. Beavers marauding around Ealing. There is always something going on that seems more urgent than climate change. More ‘newsy’. I mean, what’s another UN report or additional tonne of…