Credit Suisse and UBS Merger Could Cost 36,000 Jobs: Report
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Before the merger, UBS and Credit Suisse had employed slightly more than 72,000 and 50,000 people, respectively.
The merger between banks Credit Suisse and UBS could see up to 36,000 jobs being cut across the world, the SonntagsZeitung weekly reported on Sunday.
The takeover by UBS of Credit Suisse was hastily arranged by the Swiss government on March 19 to prevent a global financial meltdown, following fears of contagion from the collapse of banks in the United States. UBS announced on Wednesday it would bring back former Chief Executive Sergio Ermotti to handle the huge risks involved in the Swiss banking giant's controversial absorption of its troubled rival Credit Suisse.
On Sunday, citing internal anonymous sources, SonntagsZeitung said management was mulling cutting between 20 per cent and 30 per cent of the workforce, meaning between 25,000 and 36,000 jobs.
Up to 11,000 jobs could be cut in Switzerland alone, according to the weekly, which did not provide details of which posts could be targeted.
