Credit Suisse to merge CSFB
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Credit Suisse Group, Switzerland&#39;s second-biggest bank, plans to combine its Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) securities unit with its banking business in the next two years to boost earnings.
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Wall Street's two main private regulatory arms said on Tuesday they have agreed to merge in a widely anticipated move aimed at reducing industry costs and streamlining oversight functions.
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Credit Suisse will integrate investment  bank Credit Suisse First Boston with its private bank and aims  to float its Winterthur insurance arm, the bank said on  Tuesday, setting itself tough earnings goals.
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Credit Suisse plans to focus its  investment banking activities on high-margin business and float  off insurer Winterthur in a long-awaited revamp aimed at  boosting the earnings power of Europe's 10th-largest bank.
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The head of French bank Societe Generale  has hired investment banks to advise on the possibility of a merger with larger domestic rival BNP Paribas , Les Echos newspaper reported on Friday.
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Central bank joins with counterparts in other countries to get funds into the financial system.
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Credit Suisse First Boston, the securities unit of the Credit Suisse Group of Zurich, replaced Adebayo O. Ogunlesi as head of investment banking with its president, Brian D. Finn, eight weeks after Brady W. Dougan was named chief executive.
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Credit Suisse will fully integrate its  investment bank Credit Suisse First Boston with its flagship  private bank, the Swiss banking giant said on Tuesday, as it  set ambitious earnings targets for 2007.
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Credit Suisse  trimmed its full-year write-downs linked to the subprime crisis to 2.0 billion Swiss francs ($1.82 billion) on Tuesday in contrast to rivals hits by rising charges and raked in billions in new investments from wealthy clients.
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Credit Suisse will integrate its  investment bank Credit Suisse First Boston with its private  bank and aims to float its Winterthur insurance arm, the Swiss  group said on Tuesday, as it set ambitious earnings targets.
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Credit Suisse Group, Switzerland's second-largest bank, said Friday it was selling its 19.9 percent stake in the operations of Warburg Pincus back to the U.S. private equity firm.
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Credit Suisse  trimmed its  full-year write-downs linked to the subprime crisis to 2.0  billion Swiss francs ($1.82 billion) on Tuesday in contrast to  rivals hits by rising charges and raked in billions in new  investments from wealthy clients.
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Switzerland's second-biggest banking group Credit Suisse said it plans to add up to 4,000 employees to double its staff for Asian operations over the next two years.
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Credit Suisse made the surprise  appointment of investment banking head Brady Dougan as new  chief executive after posting stronger-than-expected results on  Thursday, sending its shares sharply higher.
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Credit Suisse trimmed its full-year subprime writedowns to 2.0 billion Swiss francs ($1.82 billion) but its stock fell as investors took fright at the bankâs remaining exposure to the credit crisis.
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Credit Suisse faces a fresh assets write-off of 2.5 billion Swiss francs (1.5 billion euros, 2.3 billion dollars) from the US sub-prime crisis, Sonntag newspaper reported Sunday.
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TORONTO (CP) - BFI Canada Income Fund and IESI Corp. of Fort Worth, Tex., say they have agreed to a $1.1-billion merger that will give IESI shareholders a 39 per cent stake in one of North America&#39;s largest non-hazardous solid waste management companies.