Squash competition. All Companies Report today. An earnings onslaught in europe with results from big banks and oil. Standardto the ceos of charter, Credit Suisse, and shell. Welcome to daybreak europe. Lets get to that earnings onslaught. Credit suisse numbers broke a few minutes ago. Credit suisse is to create a Global Investment bank. We were reporting that Credit Suisse was planning to announce a Major Overhaul of the business. We learned that its creating a Global Investment bank, combining the chief risk and Compliance Officer roles as well. In terms of the numbers, net revenue beat the highest analyst estimate. Net income also beat the highest estimate. The provision for loan losses coming in at 296 million swiss francs. The estimate was 443. 9 million. Lower than what analysts were expecting. The common equity tier one ratio coming in better than expected, 12. 5 . The estimate was 11. 6. In terms of the Second Quarter net income number, it beat the height estimate. The estimate
At the same time, we generated more capital through earnings. Thats why are ratio is 12. 5 . Talk to me about the merging of the two units. What is the reasoning behind that . The Investment Bank merger is something weve been discussing for months. Even my predecessor, it was already a topic. 2015, clearlyn the two had to be separated. We had to restructure the trading business. Are at a stage or we can put them back together again. Most of our competitors have it anyway. This is not a cost exercise. There will be some cost benefits. Its really about having one overriding business to have one Investment Bank globally, one equities business. A Global Trading solution business, which build on our success. It serves our equity, fixed income, transactional business for the private bank and institutional business. How difficult was it to do this in the middle of the pandemic . Thomas it was relatively good. You get used to resume calls. Zoom calls. We had many internal calls to get this lin