[4] Kengeter started his professional career in 1992 in the credit derivatives trading business at Barclays de Zoete Wedd in London.
[4] After five years there, he switched to derivatives marketing at Goldman Sachs in Frankfurt, where he soon rose to co-head European Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC).
[5] During his four years working in Hong Kong he developed a passion for yoga and the Chinese breathing and meditation discipline neigong, for "inner strength".
[8] Kengeter became sole chairman and CEO in 2010 after Wilmost-Sitwell moved to Hong Kong to bolster the bank's Asian-Pacific operations.
[9] During Kengeter's tenure as chairman and CEO, UBS was investigated in connection with the fraudulent manipulation of Libor, a globally-used benchmark interest rate.