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Credit Suisse Group AG
UBS agrees to buy Credit Suisse for more than $2bn
...On Saturday night, the Swiss cabinet assembled in the finance ministry in Bern for a series of presentations from government officials, the SNB, Finma and representatives of the banking sector....
March 19, 2023
Visual Arts
James Lee Byars, Milan exhibition review — outsize ambitions in gold and glass
...Called “The Golden Tower”, this one was created by the late American artist James Lee Byars in 1990 for an exhibition at the Gropius Bau in Berlin....
October 14, 2023
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
Credit Suisse Group AG
Switzerland bans deferred bonuses for Credit Suisse staff
...Bern has written a SFr9bn guarantee to UBS to support its digestion of its rival and authorised a SFr100bn liquidity support facility from the Swiss National Bank....
March 21, 2023
Credit Suisse Group AG
Switzerland prepares emergency measures to deliver UBS takeover of Credit Suisse
...The cabinet assembled in the finance ministry in Bern for a series of presentations from government officials, the Swiss National Bank, the market regulator Finma, and representatives of the banking sector...
March 18, 2023
Credit Suisse Group AG
UBS agrees $3.25bn rescue deal for rival Credit Suisse
...market volatility showed it was no longer possible to restore market confidence, and a swift and stabilising solution was absolutely necessary,” Swiss president Alain Berset said at a press conference in Bern...
March 19, 2023
Banks in turmoil
How the Swiss ‘trinity’ forced UBS to save Credit Suisse
...Ireland did win the Grand Slam on Saturday but Kelleher was limited to enjoying a single pint of Guinness at the James Joyce pub in Zurich....
March 20, 2023
FT Live
Global Private Banking Awards 2024
Celebrating excellence in wealth management
Thursday, 7 NovemberThe Landmark London, London, UK
Due Diligence
Breaking down the historic rescue of Credit Suisse by UBS Premium content
...The drama began on Friday with a report by DD’s Arash Massoudi and James Fontanella-Khan and our colleagues Laura Noonan, Stephen Morris and Owen Walker, that UBS and CS had begun merger talks under the...
March 20, 2023
FT Magazine
Colm Kelleher was always meant to become Europe’s most powerful banker
...He managed to escape from the office on the night of St Patrick’s Day to celebrate at a nearby Irish pub named after James Joyce....
August 30, 2023
FT Books Essay
Ulysses at 100: the birth of the modern
...When Joyce died in Zurich in 1941, the British minister to Bern spoke at the funeral, but there was no official Irish representation....
January 19, 2022
Europe Express
Europeans talk to Russia while seeking back-up gas Premium content
...is heading to Brussels and Berlin this week for talks on Ukraine, amid signs that the tensions to Poland’s east are also prompting Warsaw to try to resolve some of its own international disputes, writes James...
February 7, 2022
The Big Read
Covid backlash: Europe’s populists eye opportunity
...He supports the “Free Left”, a protest movement broadly opposed to vaccines and lockdowns that emerged in the summer and is unofficially led by Simone Machado, a green city councillor from Bern....
December 1, 2021
Europe Express
EU-Swiss relations start to unravel Premium content
...Bern’s rightwing government has long threatened to quit the talks....
May 27, 2021
ObituaryJohn le Carré
John le Carré, author, 1931-2020
...In 1948 he abandoned his English private school, Sherborne, and travelled to Switzerland to study languages at the University of Bern....
December 14, 2020
FT Swamp Notes
Markets feel the Bern
...Recommended reading Who knew James Joyce was a political dog whistle for elites?...
February 10, 2020
Special ReportRevitalised Cities: Tampa and St Petersburg
Tampa and St Petersburg business visitors’ guide
...Miami has 64 winners, finalists and nominees for the influential annual James Beard Awards for its restaurants, compared with 21 for Tampa (five of which are due to Ms Pierola)....
September 20, 2019
FT Live
Finance Disrupted at TNW Conference
Shaking The Foundations Of Finance | Formerly Future of Finance
Thursday, 20 JuneAmsterdam, Netherlands
Life & Arts
FT Weekend Quiz solutions
...Round on the Links The link was European cities The Barber of Seville (Rossini) Sofia Coppola “Feel the Bern!”...
November 9, 2018
Lunch with the FTLunch with the FT: the best interviews of 2017
US senator Bernie Sanders on socialism and Donald Trump
...Chinese tourists have clearly not yet “felt the Bern”, and I see only one local turn in half-recognition....
June 9, 2017
World
White House Countdown – Will the real Donald Trump please stand up
...Roger Stone, a flamboyant confidant of Trump, over the weekend confirmed that the voice was Trump’s, but chastised the media for making hay over the issue, saying that former presidents, including James...
May 16, 2016
News in-depthUS presidential election
How ‘big data’ analysts are counting on your vote
...It has created a so-called ‘Bern list’: companies that Bernie Sanders criticises in speeches that are then reported in the media....
May 27, 2016
Global InsightEdward Luce
Clinton v Sanders: an authentic confrontation
...They call it “feeling the Bern”. The success of Bernie Sanders, the septuagenarian socialist from Vermont, is the most startling feature of the 2016 presidential race....
October 12, 2015
Pharmaceuticals sector
Roche sees sales of new cancer drugs rise
Swiss drugmaker expects single-digit sales growth
October 16, 2014
European companies
Asia slowdown hits Nestlé sales growth
Emerging market weakness and strong Swiss franc impact world’s largest food company
October 16, 2014
European banks
Switzerland unveils draft laws to dismantle bank secrecy
...In Bern on Wednesday, the government launched a three-month consultation period on two bills that would allow Switzerland to fulfil these international agreements....
January 14, 2015
Life & Arts
The spy who became le Carré
...After leaving Sherborne prematurely (he was 16), David went to live in Bern, Switzerland. There he dreamily read Goethe, studied German and made tentative contact with the British security services....
October 30, 2015
European companies
Swiss review urges tougher leverage ratio requirements for banks
...The committee, headed by Aymo Brunetti, a professor at the University of Bern, was set up in September 2013 to provide the government with non-binding advice on how to develop the Swiss financial centre....
December 5, 2014

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