When he joined in May 2021, Antonio Horta-Osorio, Credit Suisse’s new Chairman, went out and acquired $1.2 million worth of shares in the group. Showing just how serious he was about the job. Less than 9 months later he was gone.
The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has recently written a “Dear CEO” letter, intended to outline the Authority’s priorities for international banks that operate in the UK. The letter was sent to “the wide and diverse range of international banks that [the FCA] supervises” and helps such organisations identify and manage potential risks.
As Christmas and the New Year approaches, pour yourself a glass of Bailey’s (or perhaps something more expensive if you’re one of this year’s crypto winners) and look back at some of the winners and losers of 2021.
This March, Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, said in an interview with Bloomberg that “There’s a very good chance you’re going to have a gangbusters economy for the rest of this year and easily into 2022.”
Baidu, Tencent and Vipshop were some of the Chinese stocks hardest hit, dropping 18%, 33% and 31% respectively last week according to CNN. How much of those drops was down to the Archegos disruption is hard to quantify, but it certainly didn’t help.
