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UBS could cut 30% of staff after Credit Suisse takeover — report

Swiss media reports that UBS could slash tens of thousands of roles

Swiss investment bank UBS is preparing to lay off as many as 36,000 people in the wake of its takeover of rival Credit Suisse — significantly more than first planned, according to a report on 2 April.

Citing insiders at the bank, the Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung reported that UBS plans to cut 20% to 30% of its workforce. That would be between 25,000 and 36,000 of UBS’s 120,000 full-time positions following the combination of the two banks.

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