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Sergio Ermotti
Sergio Ermotti
Swiss Businessman
Born: May 11, 1960
Bank Business Financial Management Think You
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Everything is always feasible if you run a corporate finance exercise: you can always try to come out with a justification on how things could work. But the real issue is to say how do you translate that into practice. Sergio Ermotti
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We have to have a business model that can be a sustainable and acceptable one to both regulators and the other stakeholders, clients, and investors. Sergio Ermotti
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If I have to tell you what was and is my mission, I think UBS can be the Apple or IBM of the banking industry: companies that went from being admired to severe difficulties and to being back stronger than before. Sergio Ermotti
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I don't think that the financial services industry and that banking in particular are any different than any other part of the economy, any other industry outside banking. Sergio Ermotti
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Philanthropic funding can play a vital role in testing and stimulating innovation that, when proven, can be implemented at scale by business or government. Sergio Ermotti
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Can a bank that is part of this society be sure that it has no bad apples? No, because, like in all other industries and companies, it's about people, and what you see is the reflection of the good and bad in society. So you employ people that you think are honest, but you have to manage them more and more with an eye towards missteps. Sergio Ermotti
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If we call ourselves the preeminent wealth management firm globally, then it would be impossible not to be a strong player in the biggest market in the world, the Americas. Sergio Ermotti
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When you start to get shareholders, clients, employees, rating agencies, and everybody converging, and then your competitors bad-mouth you, you know you did the right thing. Sergio Ermotti
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Every bank has to find its own DNA. Sergio Ermotti
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In 1987, Merrill Lynch asked me to open a Swiss capital markets operation. I was 27. In hindsight, I was lucky enough to start a business from scratch. And I mean from zero - no offices, even, just a space with walls between different areas. We decided to tear down the walls. Sergio Ermotti
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I'm totally convinced that the battleground of banking is not the front office. The battleground is the back end. Sergio Ermotti
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We don't really believe there's much room for the creation of new currencies if there is no real backing for a hard and credible issuer of that currency. Sergio Ermotti
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Many businesses in an investment bank, not only at UBS, are structurally a loss leader, so they don't pay for the cost of capital. Sergio Ermotti
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