At the end of April, Urs Rohner leaves Credit Suisse, 17 years after first joining the executive board and 10 years after taking over as chairman.
No one will be cheering.
When the bank published its latest annual report in March, it included a joint interview with the departing chairman and Thomas Gottstein the – for now – still serving chief executive Rohner promoted in fraught circumstances in February 2020.
Asked how Credit Suisse in 2021 differs from the bank in 2004, Rohner pointed to the very different operating environment for banks after the great financial crisis but noted one constant: “The DNA of Credit Suisse is very much the same: an entrepreneur’s bank that shapes its business in accordance with the social and economic challenges of the era.
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