UBS Next

We launched UBS Next to identify new venture opportunities within the start-up ecosystem and to further enhance technology-driven growth. It is a next step for us to further engage with fintechs and to accelerate our innovation efforts. We believe that a lot of the innovation in the financial industry will be driven by the fintech ecosystem. Collaborating is mutually beneficial and allows us to be even more nimble in our innovation journey. Besides yielding a return-on-investment, UBS Next pursues mainly a strategic purpose focusing on enabling UBS key strategic priorities (with acceptable financial returns) such as:

• Co-develop digital innovation and ecosystem through collaboration, research and innovation pipeline management, facilitated by centers of excellence
  
• Modernize and modularize technical estates leveraging new technologies, such as public cloud, microservices architecture, artificial intelligence (AI), and front-to-back automation
• Finding new and effective ways to engage with our clients and deliver our services, as well as evolving our business model to drive growth across UBS with cutting edge technologies and solutions.