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2023 - 3 - 19

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UBS Nears Deal to Buy Credit Suisse (The New York Times)

The Swiss government is close to announcing a deal for UBS to buy Credit Suisse, its smaller rival, for about $1 billion.

Prices for Credit Suisse shares and bonds dropped sharply all week, as did the cost of insuring its debt against default, despite efforts by Swiss regulators to shore up investor confidence. But Credit Suisse was tarred by scandals over the years — from money laundering to wrong-way trading bets — that left it reeling from losses and damaged its reputation. UBS is expected to pay just a fraction of the roughly 8.8 billion Swiss francs, or $9.5 billion, that Credit Suisse was valued at on Friday, these people said. Not even a $54 billion lifeline from the Swiss National Bank, announced last week, was able to stem the erosion of investor confidence that sank Credit Suisse’s shares to record lows. But Credit Suisse’s troubles were largely of its own making, tied to years of scandals and financial missteps that have cost it billions of dollars in trading losses and legal fines. And Finma, the Swiss financial regulator, said it would temporarily suspend some regulations to help UBS digest its chief competitor.

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UBS is buying Credit Suisse in bid to halt banking crisis (CNN)

Switzerland's biggest bank, UBS, has agreed to buy its ailing rival Credit Suisse in an emergency rescue deal aimed at stemming financial market panic ...

It had more than 50,000 employees at the end of 2022. It was worth just $8 billion at the end of last week. The global headquarters of UBS and Credit Suisse are just 300 yards apart in Zurich but the banks’ fortunes have been on very different paths recently. Shares in the 167-year-old bank fell 25% over the week, money poured from investment funds it manages and at one point account holders were withdrawing deposits of more than $10 billion per day, the Financial Times reported. “UBS today announced the takeover of Credit Suisse,” the Swiss National Bank said in a statement. In 2022, it recorded its worst loss since the global financial crisis.

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UBS will take over Credit Suisse, Swiss president says | CBC News (CBC.ca)

Banking giant UBS is buying its smaller rival Credit Suisse in an effort to avoid further market-shaking turmoil in global banking, Swiss President Alain ...

ECB President Christine Lagarde said the banks "are in a completely different position from 2008" during the financial crisis, partly because of stricter government regulation. Notably, Credit Suisse did not need government assistance in 2008 during the financial crisis, while UBS did. That fanned fears that Credit Suisse would be the next domino to fall. It said the deal includes 100 billion Swiss francs ($148.4 billion Cdn) in liquidity assistance for UBS and Credit Suisse. As a result, their downfall does not necessarily signal the start of a financial crisis similar to what occurred in 2008. An uncontrolled collapse of Credit Suisse would lead to incalculable consequences for the country and the international financial system."

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Nationalization or Obliteration: What Will Happen to Credit Suisse? (TipRanks)

Update: UBS has agreed to purchase Credit Suisse for $2B. Last week, Europe's banking stocks suffered their biggest drop in a year as Credit Suisse ...

This is an uneasy decision to make for any regulator, and especially for the Swiss, who have been proud bankers of the world for many decades. However, other options for the future of CS may be even worse for shareholders of the “Schrödinger’s Cat” of finance, unknown to be alive or dead before the markets open on Monday. The largest Swiss lender also insists that if CS’s credit default swaps (a price of an “insurance” against default) rise by 100 bps or more after the deal is signed, it would void the contract. UBS also demanded extensive guarantees and backstops to cover future risks and asking the Swiss government for a pledge to take on potential losses from the deal. This would work out perfectly for a small company or even a small bank, but it’s hard to see such a breakneck speed when the entity concerned is among the world’s largest wealth managers and is one of 30 global systemically important banks. Eventually, the Swiss central bank was forced to provide Credit Suisse with a $54 billion in a liquidity backstop to help revive investor confidence; although twice smaller than it was before the 2008 crisis, the bank is still too big to fail.

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Anxious Traders Map Out Strategies for Monday Market Drama (Bloomberg)

With the fate of Credit Suisse Group AG finally decided, investors were getting ready for another gut-wrenching week of trading.

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CNBC Daily Open: UBS agrees to buy Credit Suisse (CNBC)

Swiss regulators engineered a takeover of Credit Suisse by UBS in an attempt to restore confidence in the country's banking sector.

[sank 8.01%](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/17/credit-suisse-sheds-another-5percent-as-traders-digest-emergency-liquidity.html). [stock futures rose](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/19/stock-market-today-live-updates.html)on the news. [buy Credit Suisse for 3 billion Swiss francs ($3.2 billion)](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/19/ubs-agrees-to-buy-credit-suisse-as-regulators-look-to-shore-up-global-banking-system.html). Over in the U.S., First Republic [plunged 32.80%](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/17/first-republic-shares-fall-despite-deposit-infusion-dragging-down-other-regional-banks.html)— and a further 15.37% in after-hours trading. Fed officials say they rely on data to determine the trajectory of interest rates. As Doug Roberts, founder and chief investment strategist at Channel Capital Research, said, Fed officials have "to do something, otherwise they lose credibility." Despite rebounding on Thursday amid news of financial support by central banks and financial regulators, on Friday, banks were badly hammered — once again — and dragged down major indexes with them. A stock may skyrocket one day on news it got billions from a cash infusion, and crater the next even though nothing material has changed in the intervening period. The biggest shifts: Visa, Mastercard and Paypal moved to the financial sectors from technology; Target, Dollar General and Dollar Tree joined Walmart as consumer staples from their previous category of consumer discretionary. A bank may be perfectly solvent one minute and collapse from a bank run the next. You can subscribe Like what you see?

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Stock futures nudge higher on Credit Suisse buyout (Financial Post)

SINGAPORE — A volatile day looms in Asia on Monday, as investors' relief at a rescue deal for Credit Suisse and co-ordinated support from global central ...

Stockmarkets were yet to open in Asia. U.S. “It’s the irony of good news reflecting how bad things are. Central banks including the U.S. The safe-haven yen was steady. Article content

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UBS To Buy Credit Suisse in $2 Billion All Stock Deal (Investopedia)

Financial Times reports that the two banks had little interaction, and that the Swiss government is working on changing rules that require a six-week ...

[ailing stock price](https://www.investopedia.com/shares-of-credit-suisse-plummet-to-all-time-lows-7255792). Most recently, the firm found ["material weakness"](https://www.investopedia.com/credit-suisse-material-weakness-7255239) in its accounting procedures, delaying its annual report and sparking questions from the U.S. 3 The Swiss National Bank will also offer UBS a 100 billion CHF ($108 billion) credit line to sweeten the terms.4 However, this transaction means a "complete write-down) of 16 billion CHF ($17.28 billion) of Credit Suisse bonds that will become worth nothing.2 We have structured a transaction which will preserve the value left in the business while limiting our downside exposure. "[A]s far as Credit Suisse is concerned, this is an emergency rescue.

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UBS to Buy Credit Suisse in $3.3 Billion Deal to End Crisis (Bloomberg)

UBS Group AG agreed to buy Credit Suisse Group AG in a historic, government-brokered deal aimed at containing a crisis of confidence that had started to ...

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Curing Credit Suisse Should Contain the Chaos (The Washington Post)

As the government-preferred buyer, UBS had a strong hand and drove a very hard deal.

Despite the risks, UBS is getting a bank that was not finally bought down by bad assets but by a wave of liquidity fears rolling around the world. The faster UBS looks to sell assets out of Credit Suisse’s investment bank, the greater the losses it would have to take. Previously, he was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. The cost to Credit Suisse stock and junior bondholders and to the Swiss government covers a lot of potential asset losses. But the bigger dangers of letting Credit Suisse suffer an accelerating run were clear: This takeover ought to contain the chaos. However, UBS might also view a lot of the capital Credit Suisse carries for operational risks as being attached to its investment bank. UBS is protected by having wiped out most of Credit Suisse’s equity and all its junior bonds, along with the government guarantee. Acquiring the domestic Swiss bank will significantly increase the market share of the combined group and it could lose clients there too. Based on accounts from the end of 2022, the deal increases UBS’s total assets by 52% to about 1.6 trillion francs ($1.7 trillion), but it increases risk-weighted assets by 78% to 570 billion francs. UBS didn’t want the management distraction or the risks and responsibilities that come from such a massive takeover. UBS Group AG is the reluctant rescuer even at a bargain price of roughly $3.25 billion, paid in UBS shares. Credit Suisse Group AG could not afford to go into the opening of Asian markets with its own national authorities having questioned its viability.

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