The integration will be painful. UBS plans to make billions of dollars of cuts, with the bloodiest in the merged firm’s investment bank
, the two great rivals of Swiss banking, announced a momentous but unhappy union. After one weekend of haggling, and years of creeping despair, the merger valued Credit Suisse at around SFr3bn . A 167-year-old institution is dead. Global banking is in aThe value of the deal is a 60% discount on Credit Suisse’s stockmarket valuation, and a fraction of its SFr42bn book value.
But there are no accountants in a foxhole. A stunning loss of confidence ensued. By March 17th Credit Suisse’s share price had fallen to barely above its level just before thehad stepped in. Depositors were pulling their cash; counterparties feared the worst. Swiss officials returned with blunt force, pushing for a sale of the bank toplans to make billions of dollars of cuts, hoping that the transaction will have made it money by 2027.
Yet even here it is not all good news. Previous wealth-management mega-deals have seen clients flee. Some prefer to park their money with more than one institution—an approach which seems all the more sensible after the past fortnight.
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