The Union Banking Corporation (UBC) was a banking corporation in the US whose assets were seized by the United States government during World War II under the Trading with the Enemy Act and Executive Order No. 9095.
Read more about Union Banking Corporation: Seizure, Prescott Bush Allegations, Founding
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