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Credit Suisse axes vote to absolve board at AGM

Item's removal from AGM means board could still face legal consequences for past failures

Newly appointed UBS CEO Sergio Ermotti leaves a press conference in Zurich on 29 March as he tries to make the bank's takeover of ailing Credit Suisse work
Newly appointed UBS CEO Sergio Ermotti leaves a press conference in Zurich on 29 March as he tries to make the bank's takeover of ailing Credit Suisse work Photo: Arnd Wiegmann/Getty Images

Credit Suisse's board will no longer face a vote on whether it should be cleared of legal liability for last year following the bank's recent merger with Swiss rival UBS.

The Swiss bank's board has withdrawn an agenda item from its annual shareholder meeting on 4 April where investors would have voted on a motion to discharge senior executives from legal liability for the 2022 fiscal year.

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