What’s going on at Credit Suisse?

Credit Suisse’s strange year began a little bit later than everyone else’s. It started in February when its then chief executive officer, Tidjane Thiam was ousted in the wake of a spying scandal. After his appointment in 2015, the company’s stock increased by 7.5% and, by 2019, Thiam had increased pre-tax profit from €2.5 billion in 2015 to €4.4 billion in 2019. But, winning streaks don’t last forever, and Thiam resigned on 7 February after Iqbal Khan, Credit Suisse’s former head of wealth management, accused Thiam of ordering surveillance on him.