Swiss banking giant UBS said yesterday that it expected to post a slight profit for the third quarter, despite rogue trading which lost the bank US$2.3 billion.
“UBS expects to report a modest net profit for the group and positive net new money in its wealth management businesses for the third quarter of 2011,” the bank said in a statement.
When the bank first announced the discovery of the massive fraud perpetrated by 31-year-old trader Kweku Adoboli, it warned that it might be forced to report a loss for the three months ending last month because of the unauthorized trade.
However, the bank said it now expected a small profit even after taking into account losses from the incident as well as 400 million Swiss francs (US$433.4 million) worth of restructuring charges linked to its cost-cutting program.
Credit gains of 1.5 billion francs from its financial liabilities as well as the sale of treasury related investments had net it 700 million francs, largely canceling out the losses.
The bank said, however, that its Tier 1 capital ratio — a measure of banks’ capital strength — was expected to decline slightly compared to the second quarter, because of the impact from the incident.
Adoboli, the son of a Ghanaian former UN official, worked for UBS’ global synthetic equities division in the City of London financial district.
He bought and sold exchange traded funds, which track different types of stocks or commodities such as precious metals.
UBS has accused Adoboli of carrying out “fictitious” trades.
He was arrested at the bank’s London offices in the early hours of Sept. 15. Within hours, the bank announced it had lost US$2 billion through unauthorized trading, but it later raised the estimated losses to US$2.3 billion.
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