{"id":64072,"date":"2026-05-12T13:35:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/64072\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T13:35:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:35:33","slug":"ubs-profits-put-it-at-odds-with-swiss-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/64072\/","title":{"rendered":"UBS Profits Put It at Odds With Swiss Lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">UBS Group AG had a very profitable first quarter \u2014 and that\u2019s a bit of a headache for the Swiss bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Analysts are now convinced it will launch another $3 billion share buyback in the second half of 2026, following the one it will soon complete. But offering such largesse to investors at a time when Swiss lawmakers are debating how much extra capital the bank should hold to protect taxpayers against the risk of failure would be clumsy to say the least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UBS Group AG had a very profitable first quarter \u2014 and that\u2019s a bit of a headache for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[15488,230,11444,70,2511,28436,17,223,9374,2409,4140,245],"class_list":{"0":"post-64072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ubs","8":"tag-currency-trading","9":"tag-earnings","10":"tag-goldman-sachs-group-inc","11":"tag-government","12":"tag-investment-banking","13":"tag-sergio-p-ermotti","14":"tag-switzerland","15":"tag-ubs","16":"tag-ubs-group-ag-reg","17":"tag-view","18":"tag-war","19":"tag-wealth-management"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116561872343885250","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}