Credit Suisse First Boston continually astounds onlookers with its innate ability to assemble the right ingredients, fail to mix them together properly and yet still be able to salvage something from the result.
CSFB’s debt businesses ought to be in disarray given the past 18 months’ upheaval. In early 2000 the bank folded the elephant-hitting, kill-what-you-eat culture of Credit Suisse Financial Products into the more relationship-oriented CSFB. Then its asset-backed team decamped en masse to Deutsche Bank, forcing a rebuild from scratch.
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