Credit Suisse’s private banking arm – comprising global wealth management and Swiss corporate and institutional clients – logged pre-tax income of SFr183 million (around $207.4 million) in the third quarter, down from SFr836 million a year ago, affected by one-off litigation costs
Credit Suisse’s private banking arm – comprising global wealth management and Swiss corporate and institutional clients – logged pre-tax income of SFr183 million (around $207.4 million) in the third quarter, down from SFr836 million a year ago, affected by one-off litigation costs.
The pre-tax income figures for the latest three-month period included litigation provisions of SFr295 million linked to US tax issues and SFr183 million connected to a German tax issue, Switzerland’s second-biggest bank said today.
More positively, net new assets in private banking stood at SFr7.4 billion, it said.
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In the third quarter of 2010, the results included SFr44 million of provisions related to sales of auction rate securities. When those impacts are stripped out, pre-tax income fell 25 per cent year-on-year.
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