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  ChessBase.com - Chess News - Fischer's dispute with Swiss bank
Fischer for his banking details in Iceland in order to transfer all his assets and deposits with the bank, around three million dollars, notifying him at the same time about its unilateral decision to terminate all business relationship with him, without stating any reason or clarification for the action.
A complaint to the Swiss Banking Ombudsman over the strange measures of UBS did not result in resolving the issue, it explained only that UBS had given some additional respite before the account was terminated and it could do nothing.
Fischer argues that he does not see the difference whether the bank takes orders from some outside parties to terminate his account or acts on its own initiative to get rid of him to please somebody else or the US Government.
www.chessbase.com /newsdetail.asp?newsid=3265   (618 words)

  
  Court TV Library: Miscellaneous Cases -- Survivors of Nazi Regime Sue Swiss Banks for Seized Assets
Switzerland adopted and implemented policies and practices with respect to persons seeking the asylum of her professed neutrality which had the purpose and effect of aiding religious, racial and political persecution by the Nazi Regime: a.Before World War II, the Jewish population in Switzerland numbered 18,000, or 0.4 percent of the total population.
Switzerland purchased huge amounts of gold from Germany: During the six-month period ending in January, 1942, the Germans are reported to have sold in Switzerland 260 million francs in gold, most of which came from the occupied areas and Vichy holdings in North Africa.
The banks acted in concert, and engaged in a common set of practices to prevent and derail inquiries by heirs of victims of Nazi Regime atrocities whose assets were deposited in Swiss bank accounts, and by persons whose assets were looted and cloaked by the Nazis and placed in Swiss bank accounts.
www.courttv.com /archive/legaldocs/misc/naziswiss.html   (14058 words)

  
 Deal creates world's second biggest bank   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) - Union Bank of Switzerland and Swiss Bank are combining into the second biggest bank in the world and the largest in Europe with plans to use their new clout to generate more business in the United States and Asia.
The deal to create the new UBS United Bank of Switzerland values Swiss Bank at about $25 billion and is expected to be completed by next May. The move will cost 13,000 jobs worldwide, more than half of them in Switzerland, where both banks have extensive networks of branch banks serving consumers.
Swiss Bank Corp.'s Marcel Ospel is to be the new chief executive officer.
www.lubbockonline.com /news/120997/LF0227.html   (445 words)

  
 Press Release: Banking Department Signs Consent Order With Union Bank of Switzerland
The staff assembled by the Bank shall include an effective management and reporting structure acceptable to the Department, as well as the hiring of an individual with sufficient management and logistical experience to be responsible for overseeing the coordination of the entire operation.
The Bank shall cooperate and respond in a diligent and expeditious manner to all HCPO inquiries and requests for documents relating to Wartime account inquiries.
The Bank shall take such prompt action as may be necessary to ensure its full compliance with this Order, including, without limitation, where appropriate, adoption by its board of directors of specific policies to address the requirements of this Order.
www.claims.state.ny.us /pr980408.htm   (942 words)

  
 Sample Contracts - Revolving Loan Agreement - Avalon Bay Communities Inc., Fleet National Bank, Morgan Guaranty Trust ...
However, the failure of any Bank to make any advance of the Loan to be made by it hereunder on the date specified therefor shall not relieve any other Bank of its obligation to make any advance of its Loan specified hereby to be made on such date.
Administrative Agent shall notify the Banks of its receipt of the Request to Extend and each Bank shall give notice in writing to Administrative Agent not less than ninety (90) days prior to the Maturity Date to be extended of such Bank's acceptance or rejection of such Request to Extend.
If all the Banks shall have notified Administrative Agent on or prior to the date which is ninety (90) days prior to the Maturity Date to be extended that they accept such request, the Maturity Date shall be extended for one (1) year.
contracts.onecle.com /avalonbay/fleet.loan.1998.06.23.shtml   (6689 words)

  
 Press Release: Governor Pataki Opposes Swiss Banks Merger
In a letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, Acting Superintendent of the New York State Banking Department Elizabeth McCaul wrote, "We emphasize to prospective foreign bank applicants that a license (or a charter, in the case of a subsidiary), is a privilege, not a right...
The New York State Banking Department licenses and regulates the New York foreign branches of Swiss Bank Corporation and the Union Bank of Switzerland.
Although Swiss Bank Corporation has made recent improvements in their approach to resolving Holocaust claims, Union Bank of Switzerland has been lax in retrieving records, but more importantly, there is overwhelming evidence that both institutions have failed to turn over assets that belonged to individuals.
www.claims.state.ny.us /pr980324.htm   (566 words)

  
 The Jonestown Banks, by John Judge, 1982
Jones' personal account at Bank of America was reported to have dwindled from "hundreds of thousands," the Grenada account may have been part of an initial reported investment of $200,000 in 1977 to pave the way for a colony there.
The contents of the Zurich bank's safe deposit box may have been as much as $2,000,000 by some reports, but later claims that the Swiss accounts were "emptied" into Panamanian banks don't gibe with these figures for Union Bank of Switzerland accounts.
The Bank of Nova Scotia account was reportedly "closed out" and may or may not have become the same bank's account in the Bahamas.
www.ratical.org /ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/JonestownBanks.html   (2068 words)

  
 Switzerland Banks, union bank of united westminster caure mizrahi millennium america
Switzerland Banks are usually open Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m.
In 1997 Switzerland came under international pressure over allegations that its banks were holding deposits worth billions of pounds made by Jewish families during World War II.
The three banks principally implicated, Crédit Suisse, the Union Bank of Switzerland, and Swiss Bank Corp, agreed in February 1997 to set up a $70 million/£43 million compensation fund for heirs of the Holocaust victims.
www.asiaonclick.com /switzerland/switzerland-banks.htm   (238 words)

  
 CNN - California asked to lift sanctions on Swiss banks - October 24, 1997
California, Massachusetts and New York City have all taken action to limit their financial dealings with Swiss banks, a response to what was seen as delays in producing information about dormant World War II-era accounts and providing restitution for the lost money.
The city's comptroller, Alan Hevesi, denied United Bank of Switzerland a chance to back routine borrowing of $1 billion and to earn a major share of the $1.3 million fee.
Last week, State Treasurer Joe Malone terminated the state's relationship with the Union Bank of Switzerland, canceling a short-term borrowing arrangement with the bank worth $120,000 a year in fees.
www.cnn.com /US/9710/24/swiss.banks/index.html   (648 words)

  
 TI
Switzerland benefits from a high per capita income and a relatively high phone line infrastructure of 66 per 100 inhabitants.
Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS), the largest commercial bank in Switzerland with one of the largest private networks, has a world-wide router-based private digital network.
Switzerland is one of six countries that provide global private network hubs in Western Europe.
www.american.edu /carmel/ML8359A/TI.htm   (714 words)

  
 Switzerland's Top Bank Spurns Merger Bid From Arch-Rival
Union Bank of Switzerland gave an emphatic thumbs down late Thursday to the idea of a merger that would have created the world's largest bank outside Japan.
Two days after the news broke that one of Switzerland's largest banks, CS Holding, had approached top-ranked UBS about a possible link, the UBS board held an emergency session and quickly decided to unanimously reject the offer.
In spite of the huge cost savings that appeared to be possible with a merger, Swiss bank analysts and bankers had both insisted that any deal remained extremely unlikely at best and disastrous at worst.
www.iht.com /articles/1996/04/12/bank.t.php   (617 words)

  
 Donald Edward,from Union Bank of Switzerland
I am Donald Edward,from Union Bank of Switzerland and one of the Deputies(Foreign Dept)in Zurich-Switzerland.I wish to inform you that I got your contact through a colleague of mine,where you have been a customer to a bank and therefore wish to make this urgent and confidential business proposal.
I shall be coordinating between your self and the correspondent-paying Bank in Switzerland on all legal matters towards successful conclusion of transfer.
I have been contacted directly by the paying bank in accordance to instructions passed with clams letter that, all correspondent be made through your legal representative unfortunately, I was requested to forward a contact telephone number of yours for verification which, I bluntly refused for security reasons in avoiding rigorous questioning over the funds.
419.bittenus.com /DonaldEdward/index.htm   (1058 words)

  
 EMU Spurs Flight to Swiss Franc
To Peter Buomberger, chief economist at Union Bank of Switzerland, it comes as no surprise that Germany is pushing to call the common European money of the future the franken, which is the German name for the Swiss franc.
It could be more than a coincidence that Switzerland's rejection of greater integration with the rest of Europe has been followed by a strengthening of the franc against the mark, said Günther Merl, chairman of Helaba (Schweiz), a unit of Germany's Landesbank Hessen- Thüringen AG.
While some investors have begun to move their money into Switzerland because they do not trust the untried Eurocash, others are drawn by the traditional independence of Swiss banks from outside tax auditors.
www.iht.com /articles/1995/06/07/sf.php   (793 words)

  
 UBS AG - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
UBS was formed through a merger of the Union Bank of Switzerland and the Swiss Bank Corporation in June 1998.
The first chairman of the merged bank had to step back in October 1998 due to the Long-Term Capital Management crisis, which affected the Union Bank of Switzerland.
In January 1997, Christoph Meili, a night watchman at the Union Bank of Switzerland (as UBS was then known), found the bank historian destroying archives compiled by a subsidiary that had extensive dealings with Nazi Germany, in direct violation of a recent Swiss law (adopted on December 13, 1996) protecting such material.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/UBS_AG   (1609 words)

  
 Habibsons Bank Limited
As a result of nationalization, he then moved to Switzerland in 1975 where he acquired the position of General Manager and Joint President at Habib Bank AG Zurich.In 1984, Mr.
Ahmed Habib is the eldest son of H.M.D. After obtaining a degree in Management and Quantitative methods from Babson College, USA, he commenced his banking career with Union Bank of Switzerland at their Head Office in Zurich in 1985.
He started his banking career with Union Bank of Switzerland, Zurich in 1990, and then joined Habib sons Bank in 1993.
www.icricketer.com /habib/detail_direc.htm   (484 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Abedi introduced Lance to Ghaith Pharaon who proceeded to acquire the stock of Lance's National Bank of Georgia, a deal consummated on January 5, 1978, a day after Lance's $3.4 million loan from the First National Bank of Chicago was repaid by BCCI London.
His bank also provided a $3.5 million line of credit that allowed 1992 presidential candidate Clinton to stay in a race which he otherwise would have been forced to leave.
The Geneva transaction was paid through a joint venture between the Union Bank of Switzerland and its Geneva branch of BCCI.
www.lycos.com /info/jackson-stephens--union-bank.html?page=2   (493 words)

  
 Newcastle Investment Corp.
Edens was previously a Managing Director of Union Bank of Switzerland from May 1997 to May 1998.
Finnerty worked at Union Bank of Switzerland from November 1996 until February 1998, where he headed the Mortgage Backed Securities Department, and at Freddie Mac from January 1999 until June 1999, where he was a Senior Vice President.
Nardone was previously a Managing Director of Union Bank of Switzerland from May 1997 to May 1998.
www.newcastleinv.com /directors.aspx   (1375 words)

  
 The Gold Market, Part 3
Because of large central bank gold holdings, gold loans are one of the cheapest financing sources for the gold mining industry.
Central banks in recent years have been under pressure to earn a return on their gold holdings, and therefore lend to, for example, gold dealers who have mismatched books between gold deposits and gold loans.
A small central bank, for example, with plenty of gold to spare, could borrow dollars for 3 months and pay--not the 3-month asked eurodollar rate of 3.25 percent--but rather the gold swap rate of 2.70 percent.
www.aci.net /kalliste/Gold3.htm   (2297 words)

  
 union bank switzerland london - Offshore Havens
Switzerland is the world leader in banking and asset protection sectors.
Bank Notes Bank notes are paper issued central issuing bank are legal tender, but are not usually considered be part FX market.
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www.offshorehavens.org /union-bank-switzerland-london.html   (533 words)

  
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Union Bank of Switzerland, which ordinarily didn't invest in small U.S. firms, would make an exception, giving Harken $25 million in exchange for a stock interest.
In 1987, Stephens made arrangements with Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) to provide $25 million to Harken in return for a stock interest in Harken.
At the time of the Harken investment, UBS was a joint-venture partner with BCCI in a bank in Geneva, Switzerland.
www.lycos.com /info/jackson-stephens--harken-energy.html   (430 words)

  
 SSRN-The Merger of Union Bank of Switzerland and Swiss Bank Corporation (B): Integration Planning by Robert Bruner
With their announcement on December 8, 1997 of their proposed merger, the CEOs of Union Bank of Switzerland and Swiss Bank Corporation must prepare a plan of integration of the two firms.
This case presents the press release of the announcement and relates the reaction of investors and journalists.
Bruner, Robert F., "The Merger of Union Bank of Switzerland and Swiss Bank Corporation (B): Integration Planning" (2004).
papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=553664   (618 words)

  
 UBS Switzerland selects Novell's IntranetWare
Migration to the new operating system has already been launched successfully and is expected to be completed on all 22'000 workplaces in Switzerland by the beginning of 1998.
However, for the UBS as a big bank, the security aspect was also a high priority.
The reasons for this decision were lower costs and simpler management of the system, security aspects, comprehensive functionality and power, easy extendibility as well as the promise of a quick and smooth migration to the new system.
www.novell.com /news/press/archive/1997/06/pr97523.html   (747 words)

  
 Union Bank of Switzerland
Union Bank of Switzerland was located in Switzerland.
It merged with Swiss Bank Corporation[?], to become UBS AG[?].
See also: List of banks, Economy of Switzerland
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ub/UBS.html   (26 words)

  
 KEY NOTE Union bank of Switzerland
Union Bank of Switzerland decided 3 years ago to choose object technology as a major development paradigm for decentralized client/server systems development.
UBS is a full-service bank in Switzerland and a globally important institution in wholesale financial services.
LogOn is the official representative of the Object Management Group (OMG) for Austria, Benelux, France, Germany, Italy, Scandinavia and Switzerland OMG is the largest software consortium worldwide with more than 700 company members dedicated to promoting the theory and practice of object technology (OT) for the development of distributed computing systems.
www.omg.org /archives/dtc/msg00680.html   (637 words)

  
 RIN:259 Axelrod Indictment
Vice-President at Union Bank of Switzerland in Zurich, Switzerland.
Sometime prior to 1994, AXELROD and the VicePresident again traveled to Switzerland to meet with the Swiss Banker, and on that occasion opened another account for the VicePresident at Union Bank of Switzerland in Zurich, Switzerland.
In around 1985, defendant HERBERT AXELROD and the dental hygienist/attorney traveled to Switzerland, where, with the assistance of the Swiss Banker, a Swiss bank or investment account was opened for the dental hygienist/attorney.
www.fritz-reuter.com /articles/axelrod/axelrod_indictment.htm   (1613 words)

  
 SSRN-The Merger of Union Bank of Switzerland and Swiss Bank Corporation (A): The Proposed Merger by Robert Bruner
SSRN-The Merger of Union Bank of Switzerland and Swiss Bank Corporation (A): The Proposed Merger by Robert Bruner
In December 1997 the CEOs of Union Bank of Switzerland and Swiss Bank Corporation are evaluating the proposed terms of merger of their two firms.
Bruner, Robert F., "The Merger of Union Bank of Switzerland and Swiss Bank Corporation (A): The Proposed Merger" (2004).
www.ssrn.com /abstract=553581   (622 words)

  
 SSRN-The Merger of Union Bank of Switzerland and Swiss Bank Corporation (C): Post-Merger Experience by Robert Bruner
SSRN-The Merger of Union Bank of Switzerland and Swiss Bank Corporation (C): Post-Merger Experience by Robert Bruner
This case summarizes the implementation of the plan for integrating the two merging firms, Union Bank of Switzerland and Swiss Bank Corporation.
Bruner, Robert F., "The Merger of Union Bank of Switzerland and Swiss Bank Corporation (C): Post-Merger Experience" (2004).
papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=553665   (568 words)

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