Cover finance and investing topics for @business. Writing a book about Credit Suisse. Tips welcome: [email protected]. @columbiajourn @bostoncollege
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A year ago today a group of us in @business Zurich office looked bewildered at one another after covering what was "the best of a bunch of bad options" to avoid triggering a global financial crisis akin to the 2008. What had just happened?!
UBS rescue-bought Credit Suisse. 1/3
The Q still lingers: How did this happen?
I'll answer that question in a forthcoming book about @CreditSuisse. It'll be a deeply reported account of the downfall, tracing how the iconic institution became consumed by infighting, hubris, and risk-taking. 2/3
If you have a Credit Suisse story to share, I'd love to hear it: the great, the good, the bad and the ugly. Send me a DM or reach me on [email protected]. 3/3
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There will be an online information event on Oct. 25 at 5pm CET (registration a this link bloomberg.recsolu.com/app/co…)
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UBS is the last big bank standing in Switzerland. Can CEO Ermotti make it the deal of a lifetime?
Proud to share a last big piece covering Swiss banks. Moving on to a new challenge with Bloomberg at the end of the year. More details on that coming soon!
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I’ve been writing about #CreditSuisse and #UBS for a while and as the date nears that the former will cease to exist, as an observer, I hear a lot about what’s it like to be in the limbo: retention or redundancy. If you’re being affected, I’d like to hear your stories.
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A mini moment of calm in this busy banking reporter’s life – at Senegal
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How Credit Suisse was undone. Brilliant work by @MHalftermeyer @DNair5 and @abhinavvr and many others. It took just 6 days for CS to collapse. Here's how one of the world's biggest banks was sold at a knockdown price Read The Big Take ⬇️ bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @business
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The Briefing: @MHalftermeyer on UBS rescuing Credit Suisse in a government-brokered deal, Thailand’s parliament is dissolved ahead of May’s election and @olgatokariuk has the latest from #Ukraine. Plus: papers with @feap fal.cn/3wIhv
Just the tip of the iceberg of coverage we are putting out for y’all on the Credit Suisse situation. All via @business
Stunning work from our colleagues across the globe. Follow them:
@myriamBalez @eyk_henning @GillianTan @DNair5 @jhfor @GriffithsKath_ @ak_mna @bbenrath
Credit Suisse’s investment bank is a key sticking point in the Swiss-government brokered talks for rival UBS to take over the lender
New w/ @DNair5 @eyk_henning @MHalftermeyer ⬇️ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Here's THAT @BloombergTV @youseftv interview with Credit Suisse's top shareholder.
CS clearly got fed up of sharing the headlines w/ SVB. Thoughts & prayers to our stellar Zurich reporting crew @MHalftermeyer @myriamBalez @Jeffrey_Black bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Credit Suisse shares plunged to a record low on Wednesday.
@edludlow and @MHalftermeyer summarize what's happening in the banking sector.
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Not a great look when your long time shareholder calls it quits after you decide to do what they'd been calling for.
Harris Associates dumped its shareholding in Credit Suisse after some 2 decades of sticking with the bank. Enough is enough, it seems. bloom.bg/3STb5mo
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brutal chart from @MHalftermeyer and @myriamBalez showing just how massive the amount of money is that clients have yanked from Credit Suisse this quarter
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For more than 160 years, Credit Suisse has exuded power, stability and quiet wealth. Those days are over.
Beyond capital and costs, a real recovery hinges on the bank's ability to overcome its past scandals.
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We dug in to see what lessons Credit Suisse missed in its past episodes. From investment banking to private banking and across geographies--and it is imperative it heeds those lessons now. It may be the bank's last chance to get it right.
It's a long read, but well worth it.
