Ah yes, of course. Banking is really part of the fabric of Switzerland, and Credit Suisse was very instrumental to the economic success of Switzerland. Problematic client relationships within wealth management, prime broking, and investment banking businesses can spiral out of control if you don't have the right culture, you don't have the right procedures, and you don't have the right technology in place. The industry leader for online information for tax, accounting and finance professionals. They can be seized if you get onto a sanctions list. In 2006, Credit Suisse reorganized and merged CS First Boston into the parent company and retired use of the "First Boston" brand. Every additional scandal that comes up, the reaction is kind of oh, OK, it's another one. (Bloomberg) -- Reeling from a series of scandals and financial troubles, Credit Suisse Group AG is paying a massive price to drum up demand for bond sales on both sides of the Atlantic that will give it a much-needed injection of cash. The logo of Swiss bank Credit Suisse is seen at an office building in Zurich, Switzerland September 2, 2022. Governance and risk management is essential where we have all these different services provided to customers, which may create conflicts of interests. So the central cog is the wealth management business. The probe led to the conviction of Frank Quattrone in 2004, who was found guilty of urging employees to destroy documents after he learned about the investigation. Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's crown prince, arrives to meet Theresa May, U.K. prime minister, at number 10 Downing Street in London, U.K., on Wednesday, March 7, 2018. It provides financial services. Last Updated at October 11, 2022 23:24 IST, Invalid email. Last week many of Credit Suisses bondholders opted to hold on to discounted bonds issued by the Swiss lender in a buyback offer. It provides advice, and it helps protect the wealth of the world's richest people. 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Includes the Global Wealth Report and Emerging Consumer Survey. Its clients were preparing lawsuits against it. It remains a group, a strong international franchise, high diversification of revenues, strong capital, and high buffers of bail-inable debt to protect senior unsecured creditors. Moved Permanently. In my estimates, they will still reach a profit this year, but clearly it's market dependent. It's not only about individual mistakes that have happened. A comprehensive list of companies available on stock exchanges that can be browsed alphabetically, by sector, or by country. Grappling with an existential crisis in its investment bank, Credit Suisse priced a euro obligation earlier with a stunning 7.75% coupon -- the second-highest ever for a new senior investment-grade bank deal in euros. Credit Suisse has had to raise capital, halt share buybacks, cut its dividend and revamp management after losing more than $5 billion from the collapse of investment firm Archegos in March 2021, when it also had to suspend client funds linked to failed financier Greensill. Credit Suisse Research Institute's (CSRI) latest 'Asia in Transition' report analyzes the changing nature of Emerging Asia. The bank which ignored risks, ignored red flags. Columns. You've got Credit Suisse and you've got UBS. It needs to hire a heavy hitter to replace embattled and I think at this point discredited chairman, Urs Rohner. It had to be bailed out. Connected to that cog are the asset management business, which invests a lot of those funds, the investment bank, which is tied not only will they manage their wealth, but they'll help them run their businesses, they'll help them to provide financing, loans, help them with IPOs, listing their companies. The stock has declined by about two-thirds since scandals surrounding Greensill Capital and Archegos Capital Management early last year. 50 per cent of our members are new or less than a year in their job. Colour grade by Nevan Carey. I am Vincent Kaufman. I think that is the first step, actually, towards rehabilitation, actually acknowledging that there is a bigger issue. Thomas Gottstein said he wanted 2021 to be a clean slate. Credit Suisse was really bending over backwards to please him, to give him more leverage through its investment bank in order to run more of his money on the private banking side, which is where it made its real profit. It's not a sprint it's more than a marathon. A big bank with an established global reputation decades-old is a very hard thing to kill. Clients can be guaranteed a huge amount of discretion. Build the strongest argument relying on authoritative content, attorney-editor expertise, and industry defining technology. A year ago, Credit Suisse had a market capitalisation of $22.3 billion. And if you go to Zurich, right in the centre, the Paradeplatz Square, there are its two major financial institutions, literally metres from each other. A lot of this was around the bickering between Iqbal Khan and Tidjane Thiam doing unneighborly things to each other, and I think that probably struck a lot of Swiss as being deeply inappropriate and not discreet, conservative. So Credit Suisse has settled with all three regulators who investigated it, the UK, the US, and Switzerland. Topics At the height of the Covid lockdowns, he flew into London to attend on the same day the Wimbledon tennis finals, and that very evening watched England lose on penalties to Italy in the European Championship final. A good person with a very good knowledge of the private bank and wealth management, less on the investment bank. This detailed lots of cases where the bank had previously offered a sanctuary to dirty money flowing around the world from family members of kleptocrats and oligarchs corrupt government officials and criminal organisations. You're not allowed to poach staff. Credit Suisse acquired a 44% stake in First Boston in 1988. Changing the culture, which is so deeply embedded in the bank, is going to be very, very hard work. 2021, however, would turn out to be one of the most tumultuous times in Credit Suisse's 166-year history. S&P Global has downgraded Credit Suisse AG to A from A-plus. Le Crdit suisse, ou Credit Suisse Group AG [a], est un groupe bancaire dont le sige est Zurich [7].Sa clientle englobe des particuliers, des entreprises et des organismes gouvernementaux. 2022 Bloomberg L.P. The Justice Department declined to comment. Credit Suisse fully acknowledged that the scandals were not just the result of a couple of individuals going off on a frolic. Mack fired 10,000 employees, or one-third of CSFB's workforce, although many former DLJ bankers continued to collect guaranteed pay long after they were gone. We use At the same time, the newly global CSFB became a leading high-tech banker, acting as lead (or co-lead) underwriter in the IPOs of Amazon.com and Cisco Systems, as well as one-time high fliers such as Silicon Graphics, Intuit, Netscape, and VA Linux Systems. But a significant amount of this money was embezzled by the various bankers involved, the middlemen, and local officials. The situation in Ukraine, with sanctions against Russian individuals and complete collapse of business in Russia, which was integral to a lot of private banking wealth here in Switzerland. Attracting hefty demand thanks to the junk-level yields on offer, both bond sales are heavily oversubscribed. It's also an opportunity. The remuneration system gives a wrong incentive to the client relationship manager, trying to get some net new money at any price. What was really crucial was protecting the secrecy of clients, even to the point where headlines about assassinations and drug smuggling weren't enough to dissuade risk management from continuing to take money from those clients. You had these two mega scandals that from a financial point of view were vastly more relevant than the Spygate affair. Audio design by Matt Jones, You can enable subtitles (captions) in the video player. The almost 200-year-old hotel closed this year to undergo a major refurbishment and will reopen in 2024 as the Hotel Mandarin Oriental Savoy Zurich. Bidzina Ivanishvili, a client of a rogue private banker who had fleeced a whole load of incredibly wealthy people out of their savings and funded a lavish lifestyle of Rolex watches and fast cars. First Boston in New York and CSFB in London had their own management teams, with competing salesmen in each others territory and in the Pacific region. It was around $11bn, in part because all world aid was withdrawn and they significantly suffered as a consequence of that. , Bloomberg. These people started following around Iqbal Khan, and he noticed. It starts at the top, with the board of directors. The bonds that Credit Suisse investors had been persuaded by the wealth management unit to invest in were not going to get paid back. {{data.symbol | reutersRICLabelFormat:group.RICS}}, {{ stock | formatPrefix }}{{ stock.netChng | formatNetChange }}. And there's an argument to have that blinded it. So a country that was already struggling, really, really struggled significantly as a consequence. Richard Kersley, Eugene Klerk, Anais Boussie, Bahar Sezer Longworth, Joelle Anamootoo Natzkoff, and Darshana Ramji, The CS Gender 3000 in 2019: The Changing Face of Companies (Credit Suisse Research Institute, October 10, 2019): p. 22-23. U.S. sports platform Fanatics has raised $700 million in a new financing round led by private equity firm Clearlake Capital, valuing Fanatics at $31 billion. [6], After the collapse in technology shares in 2001, Credit Suisse replaced CSFBs CEO Allen Wheat with Morgan Stanley's John Mack, who was charged with turning around the investment bank. Credit Suisse First Boston (also known as CSFB and CS First Boston) is the investment banking affiliate of Credit Suisse headquartered in New York.. And he wins. 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Decades-high inflation and soaring interest rates have led many to take a closer look at their spending habits and, consequently, make some tough choices. Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the worlds largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Alfred Escher, the 19th century industrialist, he's looking to modernise Switzerland. Any systemic failures to crack down on undeclared US accounts by the bank would be a clear violation of its plea deal with the Justice Department.. Their ambitions would be to return to profitability levels. Too many things have happened over the last couple of years. And Credit Suisse was forced to suspend them, locking in $10bn worth of their clients' assets and unleashing one of the biggest scandals in Credit Suisse's history. They had amassed $10bn of funds from these wealthy clients. Just as Credit Suisse was reeling from this, it lurched from one crisis to the next, this time, 3,000 miles away in New York. Credit Suisse expects HCL Tech to be at a risk of a fall of over 20 percent. [3] By October 30th 2022, Credit Suisse had reflected "CS First Boston" as the name of its investment banking division. The kingdom is already backing Credit Suisse, with Saudi National Bank taking a 9.9% stake in the troubled Swiss lender. Disaster struck at the beginning of March, 2021. Credit Suisse had been persuading its wealthiest clients to invest in a suite of funds known as the Greensill supply chain funds. Times Internet Limited. Access unmatched financial data, news and content in a highly-customised workflow experience on desktop, web and mobile. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann. I am the CEO of the Ethos Foundation created by two Swiss pension funds to promote sustainable investment. Usually when a big bank or a wealth manager leaves, they have a long period of gardening leave. The Loan Risk Solutions group [19] within Barclays' investment banking division and Risk Management and Financing group [20] housed in Goldman Sach's securities division are client-driven franchises. I think there is opportunity to grow on wealth management. So the bank spirals further down into crisis. We have implemented extensive enhancements since 2014, to root out individuals who seek to conceal assets from tax authorities. I mean, it is quite literally The Bank of Switzerland. The Zurich-based bank denies improper conduct, and says its cooperating with US authorities. Credit Suisse had a separate relationship with Greensill and was courting it in relation to its IPO. There is still 10 per cent of the accounts which are still under scrutiny. Credit Suisse's new chairman, Financial Times reporters and banking industry experts explain it all, Produced, directed and edited by Daniel Garrahan. It's a bank that caters to very rich individuals. They're fed up because bonuses are being cut. It's about $2.3bn of this $10bn is unaccounted for. International Business News: Credit Suisse said in October it intends to reduce its cost base by around 2.5 billion Swiss francs ($2.67 billion) to about 14.5 billion in 2025. The credit default swap, for instance, is a famous credit risk hedging solution for clients invented by J.P. Morgan's Blythe Masters during the 1990s. "We are really doubling down on the execution," Lehmann said in a TV interview with Bloomberg a day after Reuters cited sources as saying the embattled bank was looking for In 2019, China overtook the US as the home to the highest number of rich people in the world, according to the global wealth report by Credit Suisse. As capital of Credit Suisse is facing investigations from regulators in Switzerland and the US, looking at a deal it struck at the end of 2021, where it tried to pass on a whole load of risk it had taken on by loaning money to oligarchs and other ultra-rich customers when they were buying private jets and yachts. There are 44 privately held sharing-oriented businesses that qualify as unicornstheir valuations are a billion dollars or more. Credit Suisse is accelerating cost cuts announced just weeks ago, Chairman Axel Lehmann said on Friday, as client outflows and a slowdown in activity weigh on the Swiss bank's revenue outlook. "As part of this process, the bank has decided to start a sales process for the Hotel Savoy," she said. Just look to the calibre of new members of the board we were able to attract. Credit Suisse has not. The question is whether the amount of time that it's going to take is as much time as Credit Suisse's shareholders are willing to give the executives. There was a kind of sense that here was yet another outsider being brought in to try and change or manage Credit Suisse, but who had moral failings. We provide intelligence that is embedded into the workflow and decision-making of customers around the globe. Times Syndication Service. Former bankers blew the whistle on the bank, court records show. In the late 1990s, CSFB purchased the equity division of Barclays Bank, Barclays de Zoete Wedd ("BZW"). In 1996, Credit Suisse purchased the remaining stake of CS First Boston from its management and rebranded the European, U.S., and Asia Pacific investment banks as Credit Suisse First Boston, making one global brand. The information you requested is not available at this time, please check back again soon. Theyve also met with investigators from the Senate Finance Committee, which will issue a report in the coming weeks. But he's not Swiss. It's a tale of high-profile scandals, from corporate espionage to cocaine smugglers and oligarchs. Credit Suisse retired the 'First Boston' name to "allow Credit Suisse to communicate as an integrated organization to clients, employees, and shareholders."[9][10]. If you look at, for example, Deutsche Bank and UBS. Latest news, expert advice and information on money. Credit Suisse|United States|US Senate, David Voreacos | Bloomberg This can always be a problem, as Tidjane Thiam found out. After the 2008 financial crisis, Switzerland signed the European Union Savings Directive (EUSD) which obliges Swiss banks to report to 43 European countries non-identifying annual tax statistics. That's a global organisation with these components that interlock together. It has to raise capital from its long-suffering investors. Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. We're not quite sure whether we've reached the bottom of this yet, because every month, every quarter, every year seems to bring more scandal. It looks like in emerging countries where there is absolutely no regulation, criminal involved and money laundering at this level is, yeah, it's unbelievable. Graphics by Russell Birkett. Credit Suisse First Boston (also known as CSFB and CS First Boston) is the investment banking affiliate of Credit Suisse headquartered in New York. His downfall came about from a combination of his hubris, self-confidence, the way he alienated himself from his executives and his board, but also taking the company's private jets for his own personal uses. Boats and planes are obviously risky assets. [8] However, its strategy is consistent with that of other large, international financial conglomerates. 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They continue to pop-up here and there, but I'm confident that we have bottomed out, and we will bottomed out, and we will go step-by-step into the right direction. Securitizing this debt and passing it on to investors who are willing to take on the risk. We were expecting someone from maybe the Swiss economy. Conflict with Credit Suisse First Boston in Europe began creating problems for Credit Suisse. We do represent at Credit Suisse general meeting between three to five per cent. Deutsche Bank has effectively retired the Bankers Trust and Morgan Grenfell names. It's very hard to get a sense of whether the Swiss are taking it seriously or not. The Swiss Franc is very stable. Credit Suisse may sell parts of its Latin American wealth management business and severely decrease or further exit businesses in its investment bank. The banks outside attorneys have made their case to prosecutors in Washington, DC, arguing it broke no laws and deserves no further punishment, according to the people, who werent authorized to discuss the matter publicly. It emerged that Iqbal Khan wasn't the only person Credit Suisse had tailed. So Tidjane Thiam accused Iqbal Khan of building a big window which looked into his lounge, and in response planted some rather large trees, blocking Mr Khan's view of Lake Zurich. None of the banks knew quite how much leverage Bill Hwang had. ZURICH, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Beleaguered bank Credit Suisse (CSGN.S) is looking to sell its famed Savoy Hotel, located on Paradeplatz in the centre of Zurich's financial district, it said on Thursday. In 2000, Credit Suisse First Boston spent $13 billion to buy Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (also known as DLJ) as stock markets were peaking. It's a big honour to be asked to chair such a great organisation with that legacy. Credit Suisse, on a relative scale, was probably one of the least affected banks by the financial crisis. It will take a number of years to improve their reputation again. You have Bulgarian drug smugglers, oligarchs. Insightful news, sharp views, newsletters, e-paper, and more! They are furious, and they think they've been lied to. In 1989, the junk bond market collapsed, leaving First Boston unable to redeem hundreds of millions it had lent for the leveraged buyout of Ohio Mattress Company, maker of Sealy mattresses, a deal that became known as "the burning bed". ZURICH, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Credit Suisse is accelerating cost cuts announced just weeks ago, Chairman Axel Lehmann said on Friday, as client outflows and a slowdown in activity weigh on the Swiss bank's revenue outlook. It's a very difficult time. We were a bit surprised. SIMPLY PUT - where we join the dots to inform and inspire you. Some banks in the euro zone could struggle to pay back money borrowed from the European Central Bank as volatile markets make it harder to raise funds, the European Union's banking watchdog said on Friday. A huge amount of the world's very wealthy have relationships with Swiss banks. Credit Suisse said in October it intends to reduce its cost base by around 2.5 billion Swiss francs ($2.67 billion) to about 14.5 billion in 2025. Reuters provides business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world's media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers. There were certainly a lot of negative press, but I think that's behind us now and we are really looking forward now to continuing on the successful path. Credit Suisse is accelerating cost cuts announced just weeks ago, Chairman Axel Lehmann said on Friday, as client outflows and a slowdown in activity weigh on the Swiss bank's revenue outlook. A lot of people think it will bounce back. "We are really doubling down on the execution," Lehmann said in a TV interview with Bloomberg a day after Reuters cited sources as saying the embattled bank was looking for [5] Credit Suisse bailed them out and acquired a controlling stake in 1990. I speak to some of these clients. And Zurich is a small town. UBS was the bad boy. The deal led to a culture clash that triggered the departures of key bankers. And they say, don't worry. Making sense of the latest news in finance, markets and policy and the power brokers behind the headlines. By doing so, he had contravened the UK's Covid rules. 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The two men's partners got into a bit of an argument, and it very nearly came to blows. Who's to say there won't be another scandal brewing that we won't be hearing about in a few weeks and a few months time? The clue is in the name. He sets up his own bank we know today as Credit Suisse. Problems end up sometimes getting stored up over time because they are not nipped in the bud. And then you also have the Swiss domestic bank. And yes, this reflects the risk culture, which Credit Suisse now clearly says has to change. The debt is unpaid and due and owing, and it stands at 200mn. As a new chair, you want to change the culture. It's just created the basket case bank of Europe. Lots of banks were caught in this - Morgan Stanley, UBS. CSFB also did significant deals for Apple Computer, Compaq and Sun Microsystems, among others. One of the people he brought in was a former auditor from EY, Iqbal Khan, hyper ambitious. The Credit Suisse story is about how finance went wrong at one of Switzerland's most important institutions and one of the most important banks in Europe. Credit Suisse said in October it intends to reduce its cost base by around 2.5 billion Swiss francs (US$2.67 billion) to about 14.5 billion in 2025. [4] This joint venture later became the operating name of Credit Suisse's investment banking operations. We are really doubling down on the execution, Lehmann said in a television interview with Bloomberg on Friday (Dec 2). It is a very deep-rooted issue, which really needs time to be solved. The Swiss bank regularly reviews its property portfolio as part of its global real-estate strategy, a spokesperson said. Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd. shareholders endorsed a $4.24 billion (US$3.1 billion) takeover offer by Rio Tinto Group, paving the way for the London-based miner to gain control of one of the worlds largest copper mines. And this really is the driving engine for the bank. The investment bank acquired its shares held by the public and the company was taken private. In a court filing last year, its prosecutors cited ongoing law enforcement activities related to the banks plea deal, and discussions with Credit Suisse regarding the identification and remediation of remaining Swiss accounts held by US citizens.. Find the latest stock market trends and activity today. Tasos Vossos and Jack Pitcher, Bloomberg News, Red pedestrian crossing signs outside a Credit Suisse Group AG bank branch in Basel, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022. Credit Suisse will present its third quarter earnings and strategy review on Oct. 27. Continuous Flow Centrifuge Market Size, Share, 2022 Movements By Key Findings, Covid-19 Impact Analysis, Progression Status, Revenue Expectation To 2028 Research Report - 1 min ago People are watching to see what happens next. 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Because of course the board is requesting internal investigation, but they pay the internal investigation, and can decide what they want to publish or not publish. How long can you survive if all of your top people leave? By the time the acquisition closed in 2001, stock markets were down significantly. Screen for heightened risk individual and entities globally to help uncover hidden risks in business relationships and human networks. Unwanted links to potential human trafficking, embezzlement. Speculation surrounding the future of the Swiss banking giant, Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse fighting for its survival says report. If he was looking at the bank today, he would be severely disappointed. A Nevada judge issued a cease and desist order to stop Barclays from taking American owned assets and offering them to international buyers from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, and North Korea. Underlying that were investments in risky future receivables. Because for the Greensill case, they decided not to publish the investigation. (Updates to include launch pricing detail in second paragraph. Opinion & Features. In 1978, Credit Suisse and First Boston Corporation formed a London-based 50-50 investment banking joint venture called Financire Crdit Suisse-First Boston. When you start violating rules yourself, then we have a major issue. And so you have as venerable an institution as Credit Suisse having suddenly to admit this whole slew of scandals. A Credit Suisse spokesperson declined to comment when contacted by Bloomberg. One of those presenting arguments to the Justice Department is Mark Filip, a former federal judge and deputy attorney general who has represented such companies as BP Plc, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Boeing Co. and General Motors Co. in high-stakes investigations. And how risk management or anti-money laundering practises were really completely irrelevant. By Oliver Hirt, Selena Li, Sumeet Chatterjee and Noele Illien, Euronews.com 5th December 202 (Hong Kong) Credit Suisse is looking for ways to accelerate cost cuts announced just weeks ago as client outflows and a slowdown in activity weigh on its revenue outlook, three people with knowledge of the talks said. Its been a rough year for Canadians investing for and in retirement as they get squeezed between skyrocketing borrowing costs on one side, and dismal stock market performance on the other. There's a cultural attitude in some of the banks and financial institutions that may mean something can be dealt with quietly, that's better than having to admit it fully in public. Will it be bought? The bank received $8 billion of orders for the $2 billion pending sale in the US market, and 7.5 billion for the 3 billion 2029 bond in Europe, according to people familiar with the matter. This eventually led to the ousting of Tidjane Thiam in spring 2020. Regulators were poring all over it. A source familiar with the situation said the sale had nothing to do with a strategic review due to be presented on Oct. 27. The Swiss Parliament is very weak in relative terms, and the executive here, the Federal Council, doesn't really like to interfere. And that was always going to be a danger for Horta-Osrio. Credit Suisse has for, in recent years played the junior partner. The S&P Capital IQ mean consensus estimate for 2022 revenues as of Feb. 18 was CHF32.78 billion for UBS based on 14 analysts reporting and CHF20.73 billion f or Credit Suisse according to 10 analysts. Credit Suisse had a weak start to See here for a complete list of exchanges and delays. Just as they're reeling from accidentally financing a cocaine smuggling ring, they get hit by another one of these global data leaks, so-called Swiss Leaks data dump. Step forward Thomas Gottstein. Last year, Wydens committee began investigating Credit Suisses failure to disclose the existence in 2014 of more than $200 million in accounts held by a US citizen, Dan Horsky, who later pleaded guilty and served seven months in prison. Despite recent tough talk from DOJ about holding repeat corporate offenders accountable, nothing has happened to Credit Suisse, said Jeffrey Neiman, an attorney for the whistleblowers. US taxpayers are supposed to pay taxes on income anywhere in the world, and foreign banks must notify the IRS about American accounts. General chaos at one of the world's top wealth managers and investment banks. Credit Suisse does not tolerate tax evasion, the bank said in a statement. Who's going to be buying this bank at this time? Credit Suisse said in October it intends to reduce its cost base by around 2.5 billion Swiss francs ($2.67 billion) to about 14.5 billion in 2025. Credit Suisse has been in this long-running dispute over allegations that it helped a Bulgarian former wrestler run his international cocaine smuggling ring. On December 3, 2008, the Federal Assembly increased the prison sentence for violations of banking secrecy from a maximum of six months to five years. There's too many issues for a systemic bank to be taken over, neither domestically, so a UBS-Credit Suisse merge, nor international, or US bank. He stopped his car in the centre of Zurich and confronted them. | FT Film, Former PLA officer says China is restraining Russia over use of nuclear weapons, Why did Carlyles CEO resign? Redirecting to /sites/brianbushard/2022/12/05/2022-major-layoffs-grow-pepsico-laying-off-hundreds-of-staff-report-says/ These are long-standing clients of Credit Suisse, in many cases. Latest News. The company was created by the merger of First Boston Corporation and Credit Suisse Group in 1988 and is active in investment banking, capital markets and financial services. Latest breaking news, including politics, crime and celebrity. The Irish High Court referred to advertisements by Credit Suisse First Boston in a judgment in February 2013. Given how large and systemically important Credit Suisse is together with Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse has $2,800 billion worth assets under management. I'm Axel Lehmann, chairman of the Credit Suisse Group since January this year. 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