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UBS appoints chief AI officer

UBS is the latest banking giant to bring artificial intelligence into the C suite, tapping JP Morgan's Daniele Magazzeni as its first chief AI officer.

17 October 2025

News/payments

Major banks explore blockchain-based digital money

Some of the world's biggest banks, including Barclays and Goldman Sachs, are exploring the issuance of a 1:1 reserve-backed form of digital money that provides a stable payment asset available on public blockchains.

13 October 2025

News/Sibos

Chainlink and UBS demonstrate onchain connectivity with Swift

Demonstrated by UBS, Chainlink has introduced technology that enables financial institutions to use Swift messages to instruct on-chain token transfers, helping the messaging network become interoperable across nearly all blockchain environments.

01 October 2025

News/ai

FS giants test blockchain and AI to tackle $58bn corporate actions problem

A host of banking and capital market players - including Swift, the DTCC and UBS - have closed out the second stage of a Chainlink-led project to use AI and blockchain technology to standardise and streamline corporate actions processing.

29 September 2025

Company announcement/crypto

KuCoin adds support for UBS uMINT

KuCoin, a leading global cryptocurrency exchange, today announced support for UBS uMINT, a token corresponding to the first tokenized money market investment fund launched by UBS Asset Management and distributed through DigiFT, a leading licensed platform for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs).

12 August 2025

Company announcement/markets

UBS signs multi-year data and analytics deal with LSEG

UBS Group AG and LSEG today announced a long-term strategic partnership that will enable UBS to adopt LSEG’s full suite of data & analytics solutions across asset classes, business franchises and the trade lifecycle of the bank.

22 July 2025

Company announcement/inclusion

UBS SDG fund reaches $100m, gaining commitment from EU

UBS Optimus Foundation and Bridges Outcomes Partnerships today announced the successful final closing of the SDG Outcomes Fund at the 4th UN International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) in Sevilla.

04 July 2025

Company announcement/payments

UBS invests in Icon Solutions

Icon Solutions, the UK fintech enabling banks globally to design and implement state-of-the-art payment systems, has today announced a new equity investment from UBS.

18 June 2025

News/security

UBS employee details leaked in cyberattack on data provider Chain IQ

Swiss bank UBS has fallen victim to a cyberattack at a vendor that leaked the personal details of tens of thousands of employees.

18 June 2025

News/ai

UBS rolls out AI avatars of its analysts

Swiss bank UBS is using AI models to create video avatars of its analysts to share with clients.

20 May 2025

Company announcement/markets

A2X signs up UBS South Africa as first international broker to trade

A2X Markets, the licensed stock exchange providing a secondary listing venue for companies, today announces that UBS South Africa aims to commence trading on its platform in the second quarter of 2025, thus becoming the first international broker authorised to trade on the platform.

15 May 2025

News/markets

Big banks join $63m funding round for Luma

Luma Financial Technologies, a platform for structured products and annuities, has raised $63 million in Series C financing led by Sixth Street Growth and joined by a host of existing Wall Street backers.

17 April 2025