Bloomberg – UBS AG, the largest Swiss bank, said it has been in talks with “dozens” of proprietary traders from firms worldwide who may start their own hedge funds as banks seek to comply with new U.S. rules aimed at curbing risk.
“A lot of it is just talk and chatter, but there are very advanced discussions as well,” Stuart Hendel, UBS’s global head of prime brokerage, said in an interview in Singapore yesterday. “In the next 12 months, there is going to be much more of a startup phase than there has been in the last couple of years.”
