UBS Restructuring Forex Unit

UBS is shaking up its investment bank

• Its removing a top foreign-exchange executive, amid the investigation into potential manipulation of currency markets (Several banks, including UBS, have suspended a total of more than a dozen foreign-exchange traders as part of the investigation, “according to people familiar with the matter”)
• The bank is rolling its foreign-exchange and precious-metals business into another unit (according to an internal memo reviewed by The Wall Street Journal), the newly combined business unit will be called FX, rates and credit
• One executive is stepping down as global co-head of foreign exchange and precious metals
• UBS has also clamped down on the use of electronic chat rooms by its staff

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