日内瓦顶级银行家警告称，如果瑞银集团离开瑞士或与另一家外国银行合并，这对该国及其银行业将是“明显的坏消息”。
UBS Group AG leave Switzerland or merge with another foreign bank it would be “clearly bad news” for the country and its banking sector, a top Geneva banker warned.
“我们需要一个位于瑞士的总部，我们需要一家像瑞银这样代表瑞士的银行”，日内瓦金融中心基金会主席德尼·皮泰周二对记者表示。
“We need a headquarters in Switzerland, we need a bank that represents Switzerland” like UBS, Denis Pittet, the chairman of the Fondation Geneve Place Financiere banking association told reporters on Tuesday.
自瑞士联邦院（上议院）9月支持一项将迫使该国最大银行大幅增加在国内持有的权益资本的计划后，关于瑞银可能退出瑞士的猜测愈演愈烈。
Speculation about the possibility of UBS quitting Switzerland has intensified after the upper parliament in September backed a plan that would force the nation’s largest bank to substantially increase the amount of equity capital it holds at home.
较小的苏黎世竞争对手冯托贝尔控股的联席首席执行官本月早些时候接受彭博电视采访时表示，瑞银的离开将意味着一个主要品牌的“流失”。皮泰同时也是伦巴第奥迪亚集团的管理合伙人，该集构在私人银行和资产管理领域与瑞银竞争。
The co-CEO of smaller Zurich rival Vontobel Holding earlier this month told Bloomberg Television how the departure of UBS would represent the “loss” of a major brand. Pittet is also a managing partner at Lombard Odier Group, which competes with UBS in private banking and asset management.
皮泰表示，他“不在瑞银的思维中，也不在瑞银的位置上”，无法判断其离开的可能性有多大，但他希望瑞士议会能提供一个瑞银能够接受的解决方案。
Pittet said that he’s “not in the mind nor in the shoes” of UBS to be able to say how realistic a departure could be but said he hoped Switzerland’s parliament could offer a solution that the bank can live with.
皮泰补充道，瑞士“不应给其银行造成竞争劣势”，导致它们“在国际舞台上被削弱”。
Switzerland “shouldn’t inflict competitive disadvantages” on its banks that “that would weaken them on the international stage,” Pittet added.
他在事先准备的发言中引用了一项由该基金会委托进行的研究显示，目前只有27%的受访瑞士人认为该国银行比国际竞争对手更具竞争力。十年前，这一比例为54%。
Earlier in his prepared remarks, he cited a study commissioned by the foundation that showed that just 27% of Swiss polled today believed the country’s banks are more competitive than their international rivals. A decade ago, that figure stood at 54%.