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Fury at top Credit Suisse managers. Lament over damage to Switzerland's image as a stable, reliable banking centre. Relief that authorities stepped in to help protect deposits, but worry about keeping cash invested in a bank that failed to manage its own money adequately. On Swiss streets, emotions were running the gamut among Credit Suisse customers after the government this weekend orchestrated a takeover of the country's second-largest bank by rival UBS a bid to prevent further upheaval in the global financial system that began with the collapse of two U.S. banks. How the merger, with a fire-sale price of 3 billion Swiss francs ($3.25 billion), will play out and its impact on worldwide finance are largely unknown. That has left those stuck in the middle customers and bank workers uncertain about what comes next in the deal to create one Swiss megabank. My money is already invested in two or three banking establishments, customer Elisabeth Pictet said after exiting the bigges
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Just as UBS is sorting through Credit Suisse's assets, properties and personnel, it's also taking on its former rival's carbon emissions
The SVB collapse has alerted hundreds of Indian investment and tech companies. They came together to help each other and share knowledge to deal with the impact
Credit Suisse's equity strategists Neelkanth Mishra and Ashish Gupta recently quit and joined the Axis Bank group. These positions are likely to be filled by USB analysts
Big money managers such as Pacific Investment Management Co. and Invesco Ltd. are among the largest holders, owning around $807 million and $370 million, respectively
It is important to note that AT1 bonds are unsecured, perpetual bonds that banks issue to improve their core capital base
The wipeout of $17 billion worth of AT1 bonds in the UBS-Credit Suisse deal has spooked investors as they now assess if this can happen to their AT1 holdings in other banks as well
Switzerland's government said Tuesday that it's ordering Credit Suisse to temporarily suspend bonuses for employees after orchestrating a plan for the No. 2 Swiss bank to be taken over by rival UBS. The Swiss Department of Finance says federal law allows the government to set remuneration-related measures in cases involving Switzerland's biggest banks. Late last week and into the weekend, authorities in Switzerland, backed by the central bank and financial regulators, scrambled to cobble together a $3.25 billion sale of Credit Suisse to UBS. An outflow of deposits and years of trouble raised fears that it could fail and trigger an international financial crisis after the collapse of two U.S. banks. The Swiss government says it doesn't plan to block bonus payments from last year that have been granted but are set to be immediately paid because it doesn't want to penalise Credit Suisse employees who did not cause the crisis. But authorities in the capital, Bern, said they will prohi
PNB likely to issue AT-1 bonds worth Rs 2,000 cr this week; yields not seen surging
Govt to make as much as 109 billion Swiss francs available - a burden on the nation of 8.7 million
UBS Group AG jumped as much as 10%, on track for its biggest gain since March 2020, as investor optimism about the takeover of its largest rival gathered pace
The crisis in global banking has unsettled the Indian start-up ecosystem and raised afresh the old question of overdependence on offshore investors
Rating agency Moody's has cut the outlook on UBS Group's debt to negative following its takeover of Credit Suisse,
Global shares rose, after the rescue of Credit Suisse arrested a rout in bank stocks, but signs of stress in the financial system are making investors wonder if another lender may deliver a surprise
The demise of 167-year-old Credit Suisse was triggered by the collapse of U.S. mid-sized lenders Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank, and investors are concerned about potential bombs ticking
"In the past 15 years or so, many multinational financial institutions have come and exited Indian markets and the latest incident was making wealthy investors nervous"
"Another instance of AT-1 bond write-off questions seniority of claims of AT-1 bond holders and dampens sentiments for AT-1 market issuances," Citi analysts wrote in a note
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