For years the poster child of European banking, UBS has just turned in an uncharacteristic-ally disappointing set of earnings for the second quarter. But there was one bright spot — its small fixed-income trading business, where revenue surged 19%.
The irony will not have been lost on Andrea Orcel, former head of the group’s investment bank, who sometimes mused about whether UBS’ fixed-income business had been cut back too much in its post-financial crisis restructuring 10 years ago.
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