One of the world's biggest banks, UBS, admits for the first time that it exploited Nazi slave labourers from Auschwitz during World War II. It is the first time the bank, which prevented Holocaust survivors and their families from retrieving their wartime assets, has admitted exploiting slave labour.

Monday, 7 August, 2000

Company names appearing in this article are:

• UBS (Union Bank of Switzerland)
• Credit Suisse Group (Switzerland)
• Nestlé S.A. (Nestle) (Switzerland)
• Roche Holding AG now known as Roche Group (Switzerland)
• Novartis AG (Switzerland)

One of the biggest financial mergers in history between Germany's Deutsche Bank and Bankers Trust of the US, could be severely delayed by calls for compensation for Holocaust victims.

Tuesday, 8 December, 1998

Company names appearing in this article are:

• Deutsche Bank AG (Germany)
• Swiss Bank Corporation (SNB)
• UBS (Union Bank of Switzerland)

February 5, 1998

Alfonse M. D'Amato

Company names appearing in this are:

• Swiss Bank Corporation (SNB)
• UBS (Union Bank of Switzerland)