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Alain Berset

The Swiss government defended its role in bailing out Credit Suisse Group through its takeover by rival UBS, saying intervention to prevent the collapse of the country's second-biggest bank was necessary to avoid "disastrous" consequences. "The Federal Council was forced to intervene to maintain…
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UBS announces the purchase of Credit Suisse

The president of the Swiss Confederation, Alain Berset, has informed this Sunday of the purchase of the Swiss bank Credit Suisse by the UBS bank and has given an account that the Government guaranteed 100,000 million Swiss francs on…