UBS’s Colossal $1.6 Trillion Size Raises Eyebrows: A Financial Titan Larger Than its Own Homeland

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Hot off the press! Two significant UBS investors are expressing concern about the mammoth size of the bank. With a whopping balance sheet of over $1.6 trillion, nearly twice the size of the entire country it calls home, the question arises: What exactly is “too big to fail”? There’s a worry that UBS’s dominance in specific sectors of the Swiss banking market, particularly in commercial lending, could spell trouble for the economy if the bank were to hit a rough patch.

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www.reuters.com/markets/europe/two-key-ubs-investors-worry-about-banks-size-regulatory-friction-2024-01-29/

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