Company profile
- Industry
- Financial services
- Founded
- 1856
- Headquarters
- Zurich, Switzerland
- Ownership
- Acquired by UBS in 2023
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Decisions on record
One verified Decision Record on Credit Suisse, and the casebook each one belongs to.
| Fork date | Decision type | The story | Casebook |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Crisis Response | Read the story → | Crisis Response Casebook → |
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The analyses
The Crisis Response · Crisis & Reinvention
Archegos and Greensill Diagnosed Credit Suisse's Disease Two Years Before It Died
In 2021 two clients blew holes in Credit Suisse weeks apart — a $5.5bn Archegos loss and four frozen funds holding ~$10bn. The bank survived. Then it died slowly anyway, two years later, of the disease the scandals had merely diagnosed.
8 min
The Fall · Crisis & Reinvention
CHF 123 Billion Had Already Fled Credit Suisse Before the 72-Hour Endgame
The story is a single panic: a Saudi chairman says 'absolutely not,' a 167-year-old bank falls in 72 hours. But CS had already bled CHF 123 billion in 2022, and the emergency law used to wipe out CHF 16.5 billion of bondholders was later ruled unconstitutional.
8 min