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Corporate 30.10.2019

Understanding consumer demand for sustainable investing

In 2018, UBP joined the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership’s (CISL) ‘Investment Leaders Group’, a global network of pension funds, insurers and asset managers committed to advancing the practice of responsible investment.

Corporate 23.10.2019

Learning by doing: UBP a favourite with interns

For a long time, UBP has set great store by training younger generations, and every year, the Bank welcomes around fifty interns to its offices around the world.

Corporate 15.07.2019

UBP enters the world of cricket

Union Bancaire Privée (UBP) is pleased to partner with the International Cricket Council (ICC) for the forthcoming Cricket World Cup 2019.

Corporate 03.07.2019

UBP Next Generation Academy strikes again

In 2017 and 2018 UBP hosted two sessions of the UBP Next Generation Academy, an educational programme designed with the leading business school INSEAD to help our clients’ offspring in their careers as entrepreneurs.

Corporate 14.01.2019

UBP’s Next Generation Academy

The second round of our programme for the Next Generation took place in Geneva and was wound up in Dubai. This programme was put together in partnership with INSEAD and allows us to forge close links with our clients of tomorrow.

Corporate 27.09.2018

Joan W. Scott receives Edgar de Picciotto International Prize

US historian Joan Wallach Scott, Professor Emerita at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and specialised in gender issues, is the first woman to receive the Edgar de Picciotto International Prize.

Corporate 24.05.2018

Community engagement: UBP teams up with Alaya

UBP is pleased to announce that it is teaming up with Alaya, with the aim of promoting greater staff community engagement. To learn more about this initiative, watch the interview with the co-founders of Alaya.

Corporate 13.12.2017

UBP: Private Banker International Awards 2017

Union Bancaire Privée has received the Editor’s Choice Award for Innovative Family Office Advisor.

Corporate 13.11.2017

UBP: WealthBriefing GCC 2017

Union Bancaire Privée awarded “Best Private Bank (Client Service)” and “Fund Manager (Global Reach)”.

Corporate 04.11.2016

UBP: Best Private Bank – IM Platform, and Best Fund Manager

UBP has been recognised as Best Private Bank (Investment Management Platform) and Best Fund Manager at the WealthBriefing GCC Region Awards 2016 ceremony, which was held on 1 November at the Taj Dubai.

Corporate 19.10.2016

Exceptional concert by the orchestra Camerata Venia

Through its partnership with the orchestra Camerata Venia, UBP had the privilege and honour of interviewing the talented bass soloist Jérémie Brocard at the dress rehearsal of “American Stories”, which was performed on 17 October evening in Geneva.

Corporate 23.09.2016

Paul Krugman awarded the Edgar de Picciotto International Prize

This year, the Edgar de Picciotto International Prize has been awarded to Paul Krugman, Distinguished Professor of Economics at City University of New York and winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics.

Corporate 12.09.2016

Dancing the Cuban dream

Geneva film-maker Eileen Hofer’s movie Horizontes about ballet in Havana must be one of the most poetic documentaries ever made. Through bewitching images, it follows the lives of three ballerinas at different stages of their careers, telling their story in moving detail. One of those dancers is Alicia Alonso, the now 95 year-old who defied her advancing blindness to become one of the greatest ballerinas in the world. Horizontes could not have been completed without the support of Union Bancaire Privée (UBP).

Corporate 26.08.2016

The Edgar and Danièle de Picciotto Student House

In Geneva stands a symbolic building that is widely recognised for its architectural qualities and provides accommodation for more than 200 students from the Graduate Institute Geneva: the Edgar and Danièle de Picciotto Student House, which was inaugurated in 2012 thanks to the support of UBP’s founder and his family.

Corporate 17.05.2016

UBP awarded Best Private Bank in MENA region

UBP has been recognised as the Best Private Bank in the MENA region at the Banker Middle East Industry Awards 2016.

Corporate 27.04.2016

Kabuki Performance in Geneva

UBP is proud to sponsor Kabuki Performance of Bando Yajuro and Bando Shingo, 17-18 May 2016 in Geneva.