UBS, the Swiss bank that has been Europe's biggest casualty of the credit crunch, is to axe 5Â 500 jobs. Of those 2Â 600 face compulsory redundancy, mainly in its stricken investment banking arms in London and New York, as it struggles to regain its reputation and investor confidence.
The European Commission got the green light from Europe's second-highest court last week to pursue even more high-profile antitrust actions against dominant global companies. The court upheld the commission's decision that the software group had also abused its dominance by illegally "bundling" its Media Player software into Windows.