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UBS

Switzerland's largest bank and one of the world's biggest wealth managers, formed in its present shape by the 1998 merger of Union Bank of Switzerland and Swiss Bank Corporation. It acquired Credit Suisse in 2023.

Legal name
UBS Group AG
LEI
549300SZJ9VS8SGXAN81 ISO 17442 · GLEIF
BIC
UBSGCHZHXXX ISO 9362 · chosen from 1 BICs on the record: the only one both in the entity's own country and carrying the head-office branch code
Type
Commercial
Headquarters
Zurich
Jurisdiction
Switzerland
Ownership
Public (listed)
Founded
1862
Primary regulator
FINMA
Licensing
Swiss-licensed banking group supervised by FINMA; its history traces to the Bank in Winterthur (1862), with the modern group formed by the 1998 UBS–SBC merger.
Total assets
$1.6tn — balance sheet at 2025-12-31
Website
www.ubs.com
Markets profile
finance.foundation/banks/ubs (listing, identifiers, valuation)

Wealth managementRetail & corporate banking (Switzerland)Investment bankingAsset management

Where this balance-sheet figure comes from

As reported1,617bn USD
Balance-sheet date2025-12-31
Filing20-F, filed 2026-03-09
XBRL tagSEC 20-F, ifrs-full:Assets
Total assets$1.6tn

A balance sheet is a snapshot on one day. This figure is exact as of 2025-12-31 and has moved since — banks report quarterly or half-yearly, so there is always a gap.

Graph connections

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Commercial peers

Approximate reference data from public sources · seed-0.1 · 2026-08-28 · not real-time, not advice. See data & methodology.

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