C-03-01

All the players involved - CS/UBS, FINMA, the Swiss National Bank and the Federal Department of Finance - should begin by themselves examining the takeover of CS by UBS ordered by the authorities. This would provide a starting point and framework for parliamentary clarification, and facilitate a fact-based Swiss and international discussion on the regulation and supervision of globally systemically important banks such as the future UBS. A necessary update The takeover of CS by UBS, ordered by the authorities,[...]

The measures adopted by the Federal Council to ensure the takeover of Credit Suisse by UBS represent a significant change of approach from the principles that guided the regulation of systemically important banks after the 2008 financial crisis. The scale of these changes is commensurate with the new crisis that the authorities are seeking to avert. It is all the more astonishing given that, despite the endless list of Credit Suisse defaults revealed in recent years, FINMA and the Swiss[...]