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In August 2019, Credit Suisse announced the formation of a new "direct banking" business unit under their Switzerland division (Swiss Universal Bank, SUB), focusing on digital retail products. The step is seen as a reaction to the emergence of FinTech competitors such as N26 or Revolut in Switzerland and shall help to better attract young ...
Credit Suisse Group was the second-largest Swiss bank. [93] Based in Zürich and founded in 1856, Credit Suisse offers private banking, investment banking and asset management services. [93] It acquired the First Boston Corporation in 1988 and merged with the Winterthur insurance company in 1997; the latter was sold to AXA in 2006. [94]
Bank Leu AG (pronounced "Loy," as in toy) was a Swiss private bank that existed from 1755 to 2007. Headquartered in Zürich, it was a subsidiary of Credit Suisse from 1990. In 2007, it was merged with that company's other private banking units as Clariden Leu. At the time, it was Switzerland's oldest bank.
Credit Suisse's new CSX banking app will offer free online banking from next month, a move it hopes will attract new customers to more lucrative services it will add over coming months, including ...
The 2007–2008 financial crisis affected Credit Suisse less than peers; [10] [11] while the Swiss National Bank, the central bank, rescued rival UBS after no private investor was willing to do so by purchasing $60 billion of toxic assets and $5.3 billion in shares of stock from UBS as a form of a capital infusion, Credit Suisse raised a far ...
Barclays Bank (Suisse) SA, Geneva; Barclays Capital, Zurich Branch of Barclays Bank PLC, London; HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA, Geneva; IG Bank S.A., Geneva; Lloyds Bank plc, Londres, succursale de Genève, Geneva *Standard Chartered Bank (Switzerland) SA (No offices anymore in Switzerland)
Clariden Leu was a Swiss private bank based in Zurich and Geneva Switzerland founded in 2007 by Clariden president Alex Hoffmann and Credit Suisse Group. Until 2007 it was operating as Clariden Bank an independent Private Bank belonging both to Credit Suisse Group and management at the bank.
Prior to the end of World War II, the Swiss banking landscape was dominated by Swiss Bank Corporation and Credit Suisse. UBS was among the next group of large banks that included Schweizerische Volksbank (Swiss Volksbank or Swiss Popular Bank) and Bank Leu. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the Union Bank of Switzerland, which was at best the ...