The brand of Swiss financial institution Credit score Suisse is seen at a department workplace in Zurich, Switzerland, November 3, 2021. Image taken November 3, 2021. REUTERS/Arnd WIegmann/File Picture
ZURICH, March 27 (Reuters) – Some shareholders in Credit score Suisse (CSGN.S) are not looking for the financial institution to carry a vote within the annual assembly on absolving senior executives from losses racked up within the Greensill affair, The Monetary Occasions reported on Sunday.
Buyers have additionally raised issues with new Chair Axel Lehmann over the financial institution’s determination to not publish a report into the lender’s failings across the collapse of Greensill final 12 months, the paper mentioned.
Credit score Suisse racked up a 1.6 billion Swiss franc ($1.72 billion) loss because of the collapse of $10 billion in provide chain finance funds linked to Greensill and a $5.5 billion hit from the implosion of funding fund Archegos.
Below Swiss company guidelines, administrators will be held accountable for wilful or grossly negligent violations of their duties, with shareholders requested annually to free them from authorized liabilities for the earlier 12 months.
Approving the vote waives the administrators’ or administration’s liabilities, however solely applies to info which have been disclosed to shareholders and the claims of the corporate and shareholders who authorised it.
“How can we allow them to off the hook after we do not know the complete particulars of what occurred?” one shareholder instructed the FT.
Switzerland’s second-largest financial institution has been working to recuperate belongings from the collapse of Greensill. learn extra
The financial institution mentioned final month it had recovered $7.3 billion within the funds that it suspended in March 2021 and has filed a complete of 11 insurance coverage claims. learn extra
The financial institution is because of publish its agenda for the AGM within the coming days. A spokesperson declined to remark to Reuters on Sunday.
Credit score Suisse commissioned Swiss attorneys Walder Wyss and accountants Deloitte to research the case.
The report they produced has been accomplished and shared with the financial institution’s board and Swiss monetary watchdog FINMA, however “in mild of the continuing restoration course of and the authorized complexities of the matter, there isn’t a intention by the Board to publish the report,” the financial institution mentioned in February.
($1 = 0.9303 Swiss francs)
Reporting by John Revill
Modifying by Gareth Jones
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