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Made in China?
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Credit Suisse
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An insurance executive takes the reins
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S.N.
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The excitingly dull Tidjane Thiam
The excitingly dull Tidjane Thiam
INSURERS see bankers as overpaid and amoral; bankers see insurers as would-be bankers who did not make the cut. So the announcement on March 10th that Tidjane Thiam, the chief executive of Prudential, an insurance giant, will become the boss of Credit Suisse, a huge Swiss bank, was bold, to say the least. Credit Suisse’s shares rose by 7% on the news, on the assumption his tenure will be, too.
The new boss's record is enviable. Mr Thiam's previous jobs include being a partner at McKinsey, a consultancy, and a spell as a government minister in his native Ivory Coast. In 2002 he moved to Aviva, a British insurer, before taking the top job at Prudential in 2009. Since then the company’s shares have risen …<div class="og_rss_groups"></div>
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