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Credit Suisse

Swiss multinational banking institution
Organization business Q372657
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Summary

Credit Suisse is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,133 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: German-Swiss Chamber of Commerce[3], Forum Nachhaltige Geldanlagen[4]
  • Country: Switzerland[5], CH[6]
  • Instance of: bank[7], financial institution[8], investment bank[9], subsidiary company[10]
  • Founder: Alfred Escher[11]
  • Headquarters location: Zurich[12]
  • Chief executive officer: Thomas Gottstein[13]
  • Part of: Swiss Market Index[14]
  • Commons category: Credit Suisse[15]
  • Industry: financial services[16], economics of banking[17], financial sector[18]
  • Chairperson: António Mota de Sousa Horta Osório[19]
  • Inception: January 1, 1856[20], 1982-03-02[21]
  • Parent organization or unit: UBS[22]
  • Official website: https://www.credit-suisse.com/[23], http://www.creditsuisse.com/[24], https://www.credit-suisse.com/fr/fr.html[25], https://www.credit-suisse.com/ch/fr.html[26], https://www.credit-suisse.com/ch/de.html[27], https://www.credit-suisse.com/ch/it.html[28], https://www.credit-suisse.com/ch/en.html[29], https://www.credit-suisse.com/li/de.html[30]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Credit Suisse[31]
  • Described at URL: http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/credit-suisse-group-history/[32], https://www.bankingdive.com/news/credit-suisse-american-challenger-lawsuit-650-million-commercial-loan-portfolio-patriot-bank/630191/[33]
  • Product or material produced: investment bank[34]
  • Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[35]
  • Replaces: Swiss Volksbank[36], Crédit suisse[37]
  • Official name: Credit Suisse Group AG[38]
  • Legal form: Aktiengesellschaft[39], MVII[40]
  • Alexa rank: 22,380[41]
  • Common equity tier 1 capital ratio (CETI): 10 percent[42]
  • Significant person: Neil Barofsky[43], Leo Volk[44], Alfred Kurzmeyer[45]
  • IPv4 routing prefix: 137.34.0.0/16[46]
  • Assets under management: 1,521,000,000,000 US dollars[47]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 549300506SI9CRFV9Z86[48]

  • Registered legal name: Credit Suisse Group AG[49]

  • Legal jurisdiction: CH[50]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[51]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): MVII[52]

  • Entity status: INACTIVE[53]

  • LEI registration status: RETIRED[54]

  • Entity created: 1982-03-02[55]

  • LEI first registered: 2017-09-14[56]

  • LEI last updated: 2024-12-16[57]

  • LEI next renewal: 2024-02-17[58]

  • Managing LOU: 213800WAVVOPS85N2205[59]

  • Registration authority: RA000549[60]

  • Authority entity ID: CHE-105.884.494[61]

  • Other names: Credit Suisse Group[62]

  • Successor LEI: 549300SZJ9VS8SGXAN81[63]

  • Conformity flag: NOT_APPLICABLE[64]

Why It Matters

Credit Suisse has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[65] It is known by 53 alternative names across languages and contexts.[66]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  38. [40] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . Alexa Internet. Retrieved . alexa.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . credit-suisse.com. credit-suisse.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . Investigation Finds Credit Suisse Had Wider Nazi Ties Than Previously Known. Retrieved . nytimes.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . judiciary.senate.gov. Retrieved . judiciary.senate.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  43. [45] ↑ . letemps.ch. Retrieved . letemps.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  45. [47] ↑ . advratings.com. advratings.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [48] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [49] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
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  13. [60] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [61] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [62] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  16. [63] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  17. [64] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [65] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [66] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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