Headquarters on Paradeplatz in Zürich, designed by architect Jakob Friedrich Wanner and inaugurated in 1876[1]
Formerly
Schweizerische Kreditanstalt
Company type
Subsidiary
ISIN
CH0012138530
Industry
Financial services
Founded
5 July 1856; 167 years ago (1856-07-05)[2]
Founders
Albert Dufour-Féronce
Alfred Escher
Gustaf Harkort
Headquarters
Zürich
,
Switzerland
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Axel Lehmann (chairman)[3][4]
Ulrich Körner (CEO)[5]
Products
Investment and private banking, asset management
Revenue
CHF 14.92 billion (2022)[6]
Operating income
CHF −3.2 billion (2022)[6]
Net income
CHF −7.3 billion (2022)[6]
AUM
CHF 1.29 trillion (2022)[6]
Total assets
CHF 531.4 billion (2022)[6]
Total equity
CHF 45.13 billion (2022)[6]
Number of employees
50,480 (end 2022)[6]
Parent
UBS Group AG
Capital ratio
14.1% (end 2022, CET1)[6]
Rating
S&P: BBB− Fitch: BBB[7] Moody's: Baa2[8]
Website
credit-suisse.com
Credit Suisse Group AG (French pronunciation:[kʁe.disɥis], lit.'Swiss Credit') is a global investment bank and financial services firm founded and based in Switzerland. Headquartered in Zürich, it maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world and provides services in investment banking, private banking, asset management, and shared services. It is known for strict bank–client confidentiality and banking secrecy. The Financial Stability Board considers it to be a global systemically important bank. Credit Suisse is also a primary dealer and Forex counterparty of the Federal Reserve in the United States.
Credit Suisse was founded in 1856 to fund the development of Switzerland's rail system. It issued loans that helped create Switzerland's electrical grid and the European rail system. In the 1900s, it began shifting to retail banking in response to the elevation of the middle class and competition from fellow Swiss banks UBS and Julius Bär. Credit Suisse partnered with First Boston in 1978 before buying a controlling share of the bank in 1988. From 1990 to 2000, the company purchased institutions such as Winterthur Group, Swiss Volksbank, Swiss American Securities Inc. (SASI), and Bank Leu.
The company was one of the least affected banks during the global financial crisis, but afterwards began shrinking its investment business, executing layoffs and cutting costs. The bank was at the center of multiple international investigations for tax avoidance (such as the famous "Suisse Secrets" scandal) which culminated in a guilty plea and the forfeiture of US$2.6 billion in fines from 2008 to 2012.[9][10] By the end of 2022, Credit Suisse had approximately CHF 1.3 trillion in assets under management.[6]
On 19 March 2023, following negotiations with the Swiss government, UBS announced its intent to acquire Credit Suisse for $3.25 billion (CHF 3 billion) in order to prevent the bank's collapse.[11][12][13] UBS completed the acquisition in June 2023.[14]
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^"Fitch Downgrades Credit Suisse Group to 'BBB'; Outlook Negative". Fitch Ratings. Archived from the original on 13 August 2022. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
^"Fitch Downgrades Credit Suisse Group to 'BBB'; Outlook Negative". Fitch Ratings. Archived from the original on 3 September 2022. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
^"Credit Suisse Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Aid and Assist U.S. Taxpayers in Filing False Returns". Department of Justice. 19 May 2014. Archived from the original on 11 April 2021. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
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^"UBS agrees $3.25bn rescue deal for rival Credit Suisse". Financial Times. 19 March 2023. Archived from the original on 19 March 2023. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
^"UBS Agrees to Buy Credit Suisse for More Than $3 Billion". The Wall Street Journal. 19 April 2023. Archived from the original on 19 March 2023. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
^swissinfo.ch/mga (19 March 2023). "Credit Suisse agrees to CHF3bn takeover by rival Swiss bank UBS". SWI swissinfo.ch. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
^Halftermeyer, Marion (11 June 2023). "UBS Completes Credit Suisse Takeover to Create Swiss Bank Titan". Bloomberg News.
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million, and for his investigations, which led to major revelations on CreditSuisse AT1 bonds considered by the Financial Times as "one of the most consequential...
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assessment of wealth and assets compiled and published by the Swiss bank CreditSuisse. According to estimates, in the middle of 2021, there were 56 million...
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days in late March, imposing large losses on his bankers Nomura and CreditSuisse. On April 27, 2022, he was indicted on federal charges of fraud and...
defaulted on margin calls from several global investment banks, including CreditSuisse and Nomura Holdings, as well as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. The...
government had budgeted a 666 million CHF income from SNB. On 16 March 2023, CreditSuisse sought to shore up their finances by taking a loan of CHF 50 billion...
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2019, at the Wayback Machine (October 18, 2018). CreditSuisse Research Institute. Credit-Suisse.com. Retrieved December 10, 2018. "Global wealth surges...
debt and equity investments related to 170 different companies from CreditSuisse. The transaction's complexity and short turn-around time reportedly...
co-founding Revolut, he had worked as a software engineer for UBS, CreditSuisse, Deutsche Bank, Sabre Corporation and Comarch. In 2022, Yatsenko's net...
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