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TEXT-S&P summary: UBS AG Dec 21st 2012, 10:31 Fri Dec 21, 2012 5:31am EST Dec 21 - =============================================================================== Summary analysis -- UBS AG ---------------------------------------- 21-Dec-2012 =============================================================================== CREDIT RATING: A/Stable/A-1 Country: Switzerland Primary SIC: Commercial banks, nec Mult. CUSIP6: 870836 Mult. CUSIP6: 87083K Mult. CUSIP6: 870845 Mult. CUSIP6: 902619 Mult. CUSIP6: 90261A Mult. CUSIP6: 90261J Mult. CUSIP6: 90261K Mult. CUSIP6: 90261T Mult. CUSIP6: 90261X Mult. CUSIP6: 902623 Mult. CUSIP6: 902641 Mult. CUSIP6: 902644 Mult. CUSIP6: 90264L Mult. CUSIP6: 90264M Mult. CUSIP6: 90265G Mult. CUSIP6: 90267A Mult. CUSIP6: 90267R Mult. CUSIP6: 90347M Mult. CUSIP6: 905318 =============================================================================== Credit Rating History: Local currency Foreign currency 29-Nov-2011 A/A-1 A/A-1 19-Dec-2008 A+/A-1 A+/A-1 01-Apr-2008 AA-/A-1+ AA-/A-1+ =============================================================================== Ratings Score Snapshot Issuer Credit Rating A/Stable/A-1 SACP bbb+ Anchor a- Business Position Adequate (0) Capital and Earnings Adequate (0) Risk Position Moderate (-1) Funding and Liquidity Average and Adequate (0) Support +2 GRE Support 0 Group Support 0 Sovereign Support +2 Additional Factors 0 Major Rating Factors Strengths: -- Leading franchises in domestic banking and global wealth management. -- Strong and stable risk-adjusted returns from asset-gathering businesses. -- Steadily improving core capitalization through retained earnings and de-leveraging. -- Management's clearly articulated strategy and evident determination to deliver on stated plans Weaknesses: -- Reputational damage to the investment bank from past structured credit and unauthorized trading losses, and LIBOR-related claims. -- Economic environment and deleveraging of legacy assets set to continue hold statutory earnings below potential through 2014. -- Still-sizable weight of investment banking activity on the group's balance sheet and a history of risk management and control failures. Outlook Standard & Poor's Ratings Services' stable outlook on UBS AG reflects our expectation that UBS will continue with its substantial restructuring of the investment banking (IB) division's operating model and reduce risk exposures, amid continued unsupportive economic and market conditions. It also reflects our view that the continued economic and political uncertainty in Europe would not have a significant impact on the bank's fortunes, as well as our expectation that any further consequences from LIBOR-related claims would lead neither to serious franchise damage, nor to license restrictions in key markets. We consider UBS' strategy to be supportive of our ratings over the medium term, but see no near-term rating implications, noting in particular a degree of execution risk, the likely drag on earnings of associated charges, and the planned 24-36 month timeframe for the run-down of most legacy risk positions. We may take a positive rating action on UBS if, after further strategic execution, we consider that UBS' changed business model and risk appetite is highly likely to moderate the group's revenue and earnings volatility, yielding a more sustainable, stable, strongly capitalized, and less wholesale-funded business with strong wealth management and domestic banking franchises at its heart. This transition could be reflected in a strengthening of the bank's business position, or capitalization--for example, if the bank's risk-adjusted capital (RAC) ratio, according to Standard & Poor's measures, is highly likely to exceed 10% on a sustainable basis. We could take a negative rating action if UBS experiences a material earnings setback that erodes capitalization, or if renewed concerns arise over the effectiveness of the bank's risk management or the resilience of its franchise. Finally, we note the Swiss authorities' measures to ensure that, over the long term, its provision of wide-ranging support to highly systemic banking groups in a crisis would stem from choice rather than necessity. We continue to monitor developments, but for now remain unconvinced that the government would risk the potential adverse economic consequences of allowing a major financial institution to default. However, we could lower the ratings on UBS if we saw diminished prospects that the government would provide support to the bank to the benefit of senior creditors. 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