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Credit Suisse plans bonus overhaul amid post-Archegos shift on risk-taking

Credit Suisse plans to tie compensation calculations to economic profit

Credit Suisse chair António Horta-Osório said he wants to 'put risk management at the heart' of bonus incentives
Credit Suisse chair António Horta-Osório said he wants to 'put risk management at the heart' of bonus incentives Photo: Getty Images

Credit Suisse is planning to overhaul the way it pays bonuses for its employees next year, a move that will tie compensation to longer-term risk-taking in the wake of the Archegos scandal.

The Swiss bank, which unveiled plans to largely shutter its prime services division and shift $3bn in capital away from its investment bank after a series of crises and scandals, will use so-called economic profit as a measure for calculating bonuses. This includes both actual costs and so-called opportunity costs, where a company has to decide between alternatives for using resources.

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