SBC: The Marcel Ospel interview

Over the past three months Euromoney editor Garry Evans interviewed Ospel for a total of five hours, twice in Ospel's office in Basel and once last month, the day after the bank announced its 1996 results, by video link-up between London and Basel. The full 15,000-word text follows.

The Ospel style

The road to the top

The future of Switzerland

Swiss banks and the holocaust

It’s hard to think of a bank that has changed so much in so short a time.

In 1990, Swiss Bank Corporation was the weakest of the big three Swiss banks, and had a decidedly mediocre international business. The previous year, for instance, it had ranked only 36th in the Eurobond league table.

But that year the bank set in motion a far-sighted programme to reinvent itself as a top international investment bank.

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