Credit Suisse has had to force out its five-year serving CEO Tidjane Thiam following a spying scandal which shook the Swiss investment banking world. Thiam, will be succeeded by Thomas Gottstein, who is head of the Swiss business at Credit Suisse. Chairman Urs Rohner, who has been locked in a high-stakes power struggle with Thiam, said ni there was no option but to “make a change at [the] top of the house”, after it emerged last year that the Swiss bank was spying on its top executives. Now former CEO of Credit Suisse Tidjane Thiam The bank’s chief of operations…
Credit Suisse spying scandal forces out CEO Tidjane Thiam