Chairman of the Board Marcel Ospel at a general assembly on February 27, 2008. (Keystone/Alessandro Della Bella)
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After the extraordinary general assembly in Basel on October 2, 2008. (Keystone/Alessandro Della Bella)
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Marcel Ospel gives Peter Kurer the "key" to his office at the annual meeting on April 23, 2008. (Keystone/Steffen Schmidt)
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UBS headquarters at Paradeplatz in Zurich on January 18, 2009. (Keystone/Steffen Schmidt)
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Extraordinary general assembly in Lucerne on November 27, 2008. (Keystone/Steffen Schmidt)
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View of UBS office building on 6th Avenue in New York. (Keystone/Martin Ruetschi)
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CEO Oswald Grübel at a news conference on August 4, 2009. (Keystone/Steffen Schmidt)
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Paradeplatz in Zurich on January 28, 2009. (Keystone/Urs Jaudas)
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Paradeplatz in Zurich on October 23, 2008. (Keystone/Steffen Schmidt)
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After a demonstration in Basel on January 27, 2007. (Keystone/Georgios Kefalas)
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The banking giant during troubled times.
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Over the past few years, UBS has garnered a lot of negative press. Extraordinary general assemblies and public protests have been occuring with increasing frequency.
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