Opinion warns tougher UBS capital rules could prompt it to leave Switzerland

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  An opinion article argues that tougher capital requirements for UBS could increase pressure on the bank to leave Switzerland.

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  The article says debate over UBS’s capital levels has become unusually tense for Switzerland.

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  Author Carlo Lombardini links that tension to the trauma of Credit Suisse’s collapse.

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  He says the Swiss government pushed UBS to buy Credit Suisse urgently.

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  Lombardini argues that nationalizing Credit Suisse had been possible and considered, and could have reduced concern about UBS’s size.

Who

Carlo Lombardini, a Geneva lawyer and professor at the University of Lausanne, wrote the opinion.

What

The article argues that tougher UBS capital rules could prompt the bank to leave Switzerland.

When

Published on 11 October 2026.

Where

Switzerland.

Why

Lombardini says the debate is shaped by the trauma of Credit Suisse’s collapse and by concerns about UBS’s size.

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