Jacqueline Simmons

Dec 10, 2024 | bloomberg.com | David Hellier |Jacqueline Simmons

Mercury 13, an investment group targeting women’s football clubs, said it hopes to buy a team in England, having previously tried and failed to purchase the women’s team of Lewes FC. Mercury 13 already owns a controlling stake in FC Como women in northern Italy, and is planning to build a stable of clubs in a bid to capitalize on the growing interest in the sport, its founder Victoire Cogevina Reynal told a panel at Bloomberg’s Women, Money & Power conference in London on Tuesday.

Nov 1, 2024 | bloomberg.com | Bastian Benrath-Wright |Jacqueline Simmons

When Karin Keller-Sutter took over as Switzerland’s finance minister last year, she was only the second woman to hold that office in nearly 175 years. Within months, she was thrust into the international banking spotlight as she oversaw UBS Group AG’s historic acquisition of its rival Credit Suisse.

Oct 31, 2024 | bloomberg.com | Bastian Benrath-Wright |Jacqueline Simmons

Swiss Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter said that the level of extra capital that UBS Group AG will have to maintain against its foreign units depends largely on how well the bank prepares for an emergency scenario. “What we have seen with Credit Suisse that subsidiaries in the United States and the United Kingdom were not sufficiently capitalized,” Keller-Sutter said at a Bloomberg event in Zurich on Thursday.

Oct 31, 2024 | finance.yahoo.com | Bastian Benrath-Wright |Jacqueline Simmons

(Bloomberg) -- Swiss Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter said that the level of extra capital that UBS Group AG will have to maintain against its foreign units depends largely on how well the bank prepares for an emergency scenario. “What we have seen with Credit Suisse that subsidiaries in the United States and the United Kingdom were not sufficiently capitalized,” Keller-Sutter said at a Bloomberg event in Zurich on Thursday.

Jun 28, 2024 | bloomberg.com | Jacqueline Simmons

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