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Credit Suisse Creates New Risk Role At Asset Management Arm

The bank, hit by a number of problems in its prime brokerage and asset management businesses in recent months, continues to unveil new staff and changes to its senior line-up. The CRO role for asset management is a new position.
Credit Suisse,
which last week
reported second-quarter results and has been shaking up its
senior management after recent heavy losses, has named former
Allianz
Global Investors senior figure to the newly-created role of
chief risk officer for asset management.
Wolfram Peters will take up the role on 1 September.
Peters, will report to Joachim Oechslin, interim chief risk
officer, with “dotted line” reporting to Ulrich Körner, chief
executive for asset management. He spent 16 years in
various senior risk management positions at Allianz Global
Investors, including the roles of global chief risk officer and
membership of the board of Allianz Global Investors GmbH. Prior
to this, he was CRO for Europe and Germany, respectively, and
head of portfolio risk for Germany. Before Allianz, Peters spent
six years as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company in
Germany.
He joins a firm going through a series of senior management
changes. Credit Suisse in July named Markus Ruetimann as new
global chief operating officer of Credit Suisse Asset Management.
Ruetimann was formerly at rival UBS. It has also named
a new chief risk officer for the whole bank, David
Wildermuth.
The Zurich-listed bank split the asset management business into
its own division following the implosion of around $10 billion of
funds linked to UK supply-chain financier Greensill Capital.
There have also been other departures from the bank amid the
heavy losses sustained by exposure to failed New York hedge
fund/family office Archegos
Capital Management.
Tony Patti, who headed up the fiduciary risk management function
at the Swiss bank’s business and helped to build the asset
management group as a separate division, is continuing as head of
independent validation and review and global head of credit risk
review.
A few days prior to this, Credit Suisse said David Kruck joined
the asset management business as chief of staff, effective 1
August. Kruck joined from UBS, where most recently, he served as
the chief of staff to the president of asset management and group
executive board sponsor for sustainability and impact. Prior to
that, he worked in the wealth management division.
Elsewhere, Henning Wechsung, interim chief of staff, became
divisional head of strategy for asset management, reporting to
Markus Rütimann, chief operating officer of asset management.
Henning joined the asset management business in 2018 for the
Swiss/EMEA region.
As reported earlier this year, Credit Suisse has been forced to
shake up its risk management systems in the wake of the Archegos
and Greensill episodes, with a number of
senior figures leaving. In April, Credit Suisse booked
an expected net loss in the first three months of 2021 of
SFr252 million ($275.5 million). The bank is due to report
second-quarter results on Thursday. (A number of other banks,
such as Nomura, were also hit by the implosion of Archegos, a
hedge fund in New York that was structured as a family office.)