集束导线与架空线连接:瑞银裁员3500人 投行部门承担近半 双语

UBS, the Swiss banking group, is shedding 3,500 jobs as part of a sweeping cost-cutting programme aimed at reshaping its business for a much tougher climate, particularly within its struggling investment banking division.

瑞银集团(UBS)将裁员3500人，近半数集中在处境艰难的投资银行部门。这是该集团重组业务、以应对愈加艰难的商业气候而采取的一项全面削减成本计划的一部分。

The cuts announced on Tuesday – totalling about 5 per cent of UBS’s global workforce – were signalled in last month’s dismal second-quarter results, when chief executive Oswald Grübel scrapped a group profit target of SFr15bn ($19bn).

瑞银在周二宣布了裁员消息，但上月它公布惨淡的二季度业绩时就有了裁员的征兆，当时首席执行官奥斯瓦尔德•格鲁贝尔(Oswald Grübel)放弃了150亿瑞郎（合19亿美元）的集团盈利目标。本次裁员人数约占瑞银全球员工总数的5%。

Almost half of the reductions will be made in the investment bank as UBS focuses on developing its flagship wealth management arm in fast-growing markets while scaling back efforts to rebuild sales and trading operations battered by the financial crisis.

近一半裁员将在投资银行部门进行。瑞银目前的重点是，在快速增长的市场大力发展旗舰的财富管理业务，同时减少放在重建销售与交易业务上的精力——这些业务在金融危机中受到了重创。

Much like its counterparts, UBS’s revenues have fallen and its profits have been squeezed amid lower trading volumes, increasingly stringent regulation and consistently high costs. In recent weeks banks including HSBC, Barclays and Goldman Sachs have slashed thousands of jobs in response to a much more difficult business environment than expected.

与许多同行一样，受交易量减少、监管日益严格以及成本一直居高不下等因素影响，瑞银的营收下滑，利润受到挤压。近几周来，由于商业环境比预期艰难得多，汇丰(HSBC)、巴克莱(Barclays)和高盛(Goldman Sachs)等多家银行均裁减了数千名员工。

The group said the latest measures were designed to reduce costs by SFr2bn a year by the end of 2013.

瑞银表示，最新举措的目标是，在2013年底前每年节省20亿瑞郎的成本。

About 45 per cent of the job losses will be made in the investment bank, while a third will come from the private banking business. A further 350 jobs will be trimmed in both asset management and the group’s independently run US wealth management business.

本次裁员中，投资银行部将约占45%，私人银行业务将占到三分之一，资产管理部门和独立运营的美国财富管理业务也将分别裁减350个工作岗位。

UBS said the cuts would trigger a SFr550m restructuring charge. Some SFr450m of that will be booked between now and the end of December, with “the substantial majority” of the total falling in the third quarter.

瑞银表示，裁员将产生5.5亿瑞郎重组费用，其中约4.5亿瑞郎将在从现在起到12月底这段时间内入账，其中“绝大多数”将录入第三季度财报。