UBS hot-rods its investment bank

Like a gentlemanly classic car, it was getting slow and uncompetitive. FN speaks to UBS bankers past and present on the efforts to get its investment bank up to speed

When Andrea Orcel – widely acclaimed as an investment banker par excellence – became chief executive of the investment bank at UBS in November 2012, many of the division’s longest-serving staff believed the glory days of advisory banking were back.

They did not foresee the two years of intense change that have followed - after which many of them are no longer at the bank.

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