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Credit Suisse on Tuesday published its delayed annual report — which describes material weaknesses in its financial controls — as it also announced it won’t be paying bonuses to its board after a difficult 2022
Credit Suisse shares
CSGN,
CS,
fell 4%, moving to levels just above the record low it reached at the worst point of trade on Monday, when the financial sector reacted to the failures of Silicon Valley Bank
SIVB,
and Signature Bank
SBNY,
The annual report had been delayed over a dispute with the Securities and Exchange Commission over revisions to its cash flow statements from 2019 and 2020, as well as related controls. The bank’s annual report published Tuesday describes “material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting” both for 2021 and 2022.
The bank says it failed to design and maintain an effective risk assessment process to identify and analyze the risk of material misstatements. It also failed to design and maintain effective monitoring activities.
“While we are taking steps to address these material weaknesses, which could require us to expend significant resources to correct the material weaknesses or deficiencies, any gaps or deficiencies in our internal control over financing reporting may result in us being unable to provide required financial information in a timely and reliable manner and/or incorrectly reporting financial information, which could reduce confidence in our published information, impact access to capital markets, impact the trading price of our securities or subject us to potential regulatory investigations and sanctions,” the bank said.
The bank did confirm its financial statements for 2021 and 2022, as well as cash flow details from 2020, 2021 and 2022.
“It may have been a ‘technical’ issue according to the Swiss bank but in the current environment and given the company’s recent sketchy track record, investors were hardly in a forgiving mood,” said Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell.
Credit Suisse has lost money for five straight quarters and says it’s expecting to post a loss before tax this year. It’s undergoing a big transformation after losing billions lending to the Archegos family office and having to freeze $10 billion worth of funds tied to Greensil Capital. Wealthy clients pulled out about $100 billion from Credit Suisse in the fourth quarter.
Credit Suisse says it won’t pay a bonus to any of its executive board members for the 2022 year, and said its chairman, Axel Lehmann, will voluntarily give up a chair fee of 1.5 million francs ($1.6 million). Lehmann is reportedly being probed over comments he made saying outflows had stopped at the Swiss bank when they had continued.
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