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Every bank has to find its own DNA.
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Dna
Bank
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People should never take things for granted.
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Granted
People Never Things
Never Take
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Wealth management businesses are capital light businesses.
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Management
Capital
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We believe existing currencies may move into becoming more of a crypto-currency.
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Believe May More
Existing
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When you look at billionaires, many of them share one characteristic: They were not born billionaires.
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Billionaires
Characteristic
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I'm totally convinced that the battleground of banking is not the front office. The battleground is the back end.
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Banking
Battleground
Convinced
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Today's investors want to see a positive impact on society and the environment as well as solid financial returns.
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Investors
Positive Impact
Solid
Returns
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Usually, you measure appetite of investors by their ability or willingness to take a bit of leverage on their positions.
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Appetite
Investors
Willingness
Leverage
Measure
Positions
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Impact investment is an important business driver, and more importantly, it is a business driver because clients want it.
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Clients
Investment
Driver
Important Business
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Many businesses in an investment bank, not only at UBS, are structurally a loss leader, so they don't pay for the cost of capital.
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Cost
Investment
Loss
Pay
Bank
Businesses
Capital
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There's no understandable reason why the financial services industry has not developed a more comprehensive sharing of the value chain.
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Comprehensive
Financial
Financial Services
Chain
Developed
Services
Sharing
Value
Understandable
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We have to have a business model that can be a sustainable and acceptable one to both regulators and the other stakeholders, clients, and investors.
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Acceptable
Clients
Investors
Business Model
Sustainable
Stakeholders
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We don't really believe there's much room for the creation of new currencies if there is no real backing for a hard and credible issuer of that currency.
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Creation
Credible
Currency
Backing
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Growth is what solves most of the big economic and social problems: poverty, government deficits, quality of life, rising healthcare and retirement costs.
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Quality
Economic
Growth
Healthcare
Poverty
Quality Of Life
Retirement
Rising
Social
Social Problems
Life Government Quality
Deficits
Problems
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Philanthropic funding can play a vital role in testing and stimulating innovation that, when proven, can be implemented at scale by business or government.
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Funding
Innovation
Philanthropic
Proven
Scale
Stimulating
Implemented
Vital
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We have a very competitive and profitable investment bank and strong asset management capabilities. We want to continue to build on all those businesses organically.
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Investment
Management
Profitable
Asset
Bank
Businesses
Capabilities
Competitive
Organically
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As a Swiss-Italian who has always worked for foreign banks, there was clearly an element of pride going back to my roots and working for the biggest bank in my country.
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Pride
Roots
Bank
Banks
Element
Country Roots Always
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While government clearly plays the major role in fighting poverty through policies on things such as education, tax, and trade, business creates the wealth that matters.
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Creates
Major Role
Policies
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I don't think that the financial services industry and that banking in particular are any different than any other part of the economy, any other industry outside banking.
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Banking
Financial Services
Services
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If we call ourselves the preeminent wealth management firm globally, then it would be impossible not to be a strong player in the biggest market in the world, the Americas.
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Firm
Management
Americas
Globally
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When you start to get shareholders, clients, employees, rating agencies, and everybody converging, and then your competitors bad-mouth you, you know you did the right thing.
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Clients
Competitors
Rating
Right Thing
Shareholders
Agencies
Employees
The Right Thing
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Businesses are among the first to see changes in the labor market, but few countries have the necessary close relationship between business and educators to ensure this information reaches the education system.
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Close Relationship
Labor
Educators
Ensure
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If I have to tell you what was and is my mission, I think UBS can be the Apple or IBM of the banking industry: companies that went from being admired to severe difficulties and to being back stronger than before.
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Banking
Ibm
Severe
Stronger
Admired
Apple
Companies
Difficulties
Mission
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Everything is always feasible if you run a corporate finance exercise: you can always try to come out with a justification on how things could work. But the real issue is to say how do you translate that into practice.
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Finance
Corporate
Exercise
Justification
Practice
Translate
Run
Feasible
Issue
Real Issue
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In 1987, Merrill Lynch asked me to open a Swiss capital markets operation. I was 27. In hindsight, I was lucky enough to start a business from scratch. And I mean from zero - no offices, even, just a space with walls between different areas. We decided to tear down the walls.
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Zero
Hindsight
Swiss
Capital
Different Areas
Offices
Operation
Scratch
Tear
Walls
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Can a bank that is part of this society be sure that it has no bad apples? No, because, like in all other industries and companies, it's about people, and what you see is the reflection of the good and bad in society. So you employ people that you think are honest, but you have to manage them more and more with an eye towards missteps.
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Apples
Good And Bad
Manage
Reflection
Good Society Bad
Bank
Employ
Industries
More And More
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