Credit Suisse : announces 2Q17 results

The results of Credit Suisse Group comprise the results of our six reporting segments, including the Strategic Resolution Unit, and the Corporate Center. Core results exclude revenues and expenses from our Strategic Resolution Unit.

As we move ahead with the implementation of our strategy, it is important to measure the progress achieved by our underlying business performance in a consistent manner. To achieve this, we will focus our analyses on adjusted results.

Adjusted results referred to in this Media Release are non-GAAP financial measures that exclude goodwill impairment and certain other revenues and expenses included in our reported results. Management believes that adjusted results provide a useful presentation of our operating results for the purposes of assessing our Group and divisional performance consistently over time, on a basis that excludes items that management does not consider representative of our underlying performance. We will report quarterly on the same adjusted* basis for the Group, Core and divisional results until end-2018 to allow investors to monitor our progress in implementing our strategy, given the material restructuring charges we are likely to incur and other items which are not reflective of our underlying performance but are to be borne in the interim period. Tables in the Appendix of this Media Release provide the detailed reconciliation between reported and adjusted results for the Group, Core businesses and the individual divisions.

Footnotes

* Adjusted results are non-GAAP financial measures. For a reconciliation of the adjusted results to the most directly comparable US GAAP measures, see the Appendix of this Media Release.

Measured at constant FX rates.

Relating to the combined adjusted* pre-tax income for SUB, IWM and APAC WM&C.

Figures listed for Wealth Management asset inflows and assets under management are derived by combining the respective net new assets and assets under management for the SUB PC business, the IWM PB business and the APAC PB business within WM&C.

Compared to year end-2016, excluding FX effects in 1H17 of CHF 21 billion on the underlying assets and including other effects of CHF 1.5 billion.

Referring to operating expenses at constant FX rates.

Excluding Swisscard impact of CHF 25 million in 1H15.

Referring to adjusted* pre-tax income.

Source: Euromoney as of July 13, 2017.

Source: Institutional Investor as of June 22, 2017.

Source: Dealogic as of June 30, 2017.

Source: Dealogic for the period ending June 30, 2017; includes Americas and EMEA only.

Gross global revenues from advisory, debt and equity underwriting generated across all divisions before cross-divisional revenue sharing agreements.

Source: Dealogic / Thomson Reuters as of June 30, 2017.

Abbreviations

Asia Pacific - APAC; Asia Pacific Private Banking within Wealth Management & Connected - APAC PB within WM&C; basis points - bps; common equity tier 1 - CET1; External Asset Managers - EAM; Europe, the Middle East and Africa - EMEA; Initial Public Offering - IPO; Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA - FINMA; Global Markets - GM; International Wealth Management - IWM; International Wealth Management Private Banking - IWM PB; Investment Banking & Capital Markets - IBCM; mergers and acquisitions - M&A; Strategic Resolution Unit - SRU; Swiss Universal Bank - SUB; Swiss Universal Bank Private Clients - SUB PC; Systematic Market Making Group - SMG; Ultra-High-Net-Worth Individuals - UHNWI; Wealth Management & Connected - WM&C

Important information

This Media Release contains select information from the full 2Q17 Financial Report and 2Q17 Results Presentation Slides that Credit Suisse believes is of particular interest to media professionals. The complete 2Q17 Financial Report and 2Q17 Results Presentation Slides, which have been distributed simultaneously, contain more comprehensive information about our results and operations for the reporting quarter, as well as important information about our reporting methodology and some of the terms used in these documents. The complete 2Q17 Financial Report and Results Presentation Slides are not incorporated by reference into this Media Release.

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* 'Adjusted operating expenses at constant FX rates' and 'adjusted non-compensation operating expenses at constant FX rates' include adjustments as made in all our disclosures for restructuring expenses, major litigation expenses and a goodwill impairment taken in 4Q15 as well as adjustments for certain accounting changes (which had not been in place at the launch of the cost savings program), debit valuation adjustments (DVA) related volatility and for FX, applying the following main currency exchange rates for 1Q15: USD/CHF 0.9465, EUR/CHF 1.0482, GBP/CHF 1.4296, 2Q15: USD/CHF 0.9383, EUR/CHF 1.0418, GBP/CHF 1.4497, 3Q15: USD/CHF 0.9684, EUR/CHF 1.0787, GBP/CHF 1.4891, 4Q15: USD/CHF 1.0010, EUR/CHF 1.0851, GBP/CHF 1.5123, 1Q16: USD/CHF 0.9928, EUR/CHF 1.0941, GBP/CHF 1.4060, 2Q16: USD/CHF 0.9756, EUR/CHF 1.0956, GBP/CHF 1.3845, 3Q16: USD/CHF 0.9728, EUR/CHF 1.0882, GBP/CHF 1.2764, 4Q16: USD/CHF 1.0101, EUR/CHF 1.0798, GBP/CHF 1.2451, 1Q17: USD/CHF 0.9963, EUR/CHF 1.0670, GBP/CHF 1.2464, 2Q17: USD/CHF 0.9736, EUR/CHF 1.0881, GBP/CHF 1.2603. These currency exchange rates are unweighted, i.e. a straight line average of monthly rates. We apply this calculation consistently for the periods under review. Adjusted non-compensation expenses are adjusted operating expenses excluding compensation and benefits. To calculate adjusted non-compensation expenses at constant FX rates, we subtract compensation and benefits (adjusted at constant FX rates in the manner described above) from adjusted operating expenses at constant FX rates.

Regulatory capital is calculated as the worst of 10% of RWA and 3.5% of leverage exposure. Return on regulatory capital is calculated using (adjusted) income after tax and assumes a tax rate of 30% and capital allocated based on the worst of 10% of average RWA and 3.5% of average leverage exposure. For the Markets business within the APAC division and for the Global Markets and Investment Banking & Capital Markets divisions, return on regulatory capital is based on US dollar denominated numbers. Adjusted return on regulatory capital is calculated using adjusted results, applying the same methodology to calculate return on regulatory capital.

We may not achieve all of the expected benefits of our strategic initiatives. Factors beyond our control, including but not limited to the market and economic conditions, changes in laws, rules or regulations and other challenges discussed in our public filings, could limit our ability to achieve some or all of the expected benefits of these initiatives.

In particular, the terms 'Illustrative', 'Ambition', 'Outlook' and 'Goal' are not intended to be viewed as targets or projections, nor are they considered to be Key Performance Indicators. All such illustrations, ambitions and goals are subject to a large number of inherent risks, assumptions and uncertainties, many of which are completely outside of our control. Accordingly, this information should not be relied on for any purpose. We do not intend to update these illustrations, ambitions or goals.

In preparing this media release, management has made estimates and assumptions that affect the numbers presented. Actual results may differ. Annualized numbers do not take account variations in operating results, seasonality and other factors and may not be indicative of actual, full-year results. Figures throughout this media release may also be subject to rounding adjustments.

As of January 1, 2013, Basel 3 was implemented in Switzerland along with the Swiss 'Too Big to Fail' legislation and regulations thereunder (in each case, subject to certain phase-in periods). As of January 1, 2015, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) leverage ratio framework, as issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), was implemented in Switzerland by FINMA. Our related disclosures are in accordance with our interpretation of such requirements, including relevant assumptions. Changes in the interpretation of these requirements in Switzerland or in any of our assumptions or estimates could result in different numbers from those shown in this media release.

Unless otherwise noted, leverage exposure is based on the BIS leverage ratio framework and consists of period-end balance sheet assets and pre- scribed regulatory adjustments. Beginning in 2015, the Swiss leverage ratio is calculated as Swiss total capital, divided by period-end leverage expo- sure. The look-through BIS tier 1 leverage ratio and CET1 leverage ratio are calculated as look-through BIS tier 1 capital and CET1 capital, respectively, divided by end-period leverage exposure.

Mandates penetration means advisory and discretionary mandates in private banking businesses as a percentage of the related AuM, excluding those from the external asset manager business.

When we refer to Wealth Management focused divisions throughout this Media Release, we mean SUB, IWM and APAC. References to the 'Wealth Management businesses' within these divisions refer to the SUB Private Clients business, the IWM Private Banking business and the APAC Private Banking business within Wealth Management & Connected.

Margin calculations for APAC are aligned with the performance metrics of the Private Banking business and its related assets under management within the Wealth Management & Connected business in APAC. Assets under management and net new assets for APAC relate to the Private Banking business within the Wealth Management & Connected business.

Net margin is calculated by dividing income before taxes by average assets under management. Adjusted net margins is calculated using adjusted results, applying the same methodology to calculate net margin.

When we refer to operating divisions throughout this Media Release, we mean SUB, IWM, APAC, IBCM and GM.

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In various tables, use of '-' indicates not meaningful or not applicable.

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• our plans, objectives or goals;
• our future economic performance or prospects;
• the potential effect on our future performance of certain contingencies; and
• assumptions underlying any such statements.

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By their very nature, forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties, both general and specific, and risks exist that predictions, forecasts, projections and other outcomes described or implied in forward-looking statements will not be achieved. We caution you that a number of important factors could cause results to differ materially from the plans, objectives, expectations, estimates and intentions expressed in such forward-looking statements. These factors include:

• the ability to maintain sufficient liquidity and access capital markets;
• market volatility and interest rate fluctuations and developments affecting interest rate levels;
• the strength of the global economy in general and the strength of the economies of the countries in which we conduct our operations, in particular the risk of continued slow economic recovery or downturn in the US or other developed countries or in emerging markets in 2017 and beyond;
• the direct and indirect impacts of deterioration or slow recovery in residential and commercial real estate markets;
• adverse rating actions by credit rating agencies in respect of us, sovereign issuers, structured credit products or other credit-related exposures;
• the ability to achieve our strategic objectives, including cost efficiency, net new asset, pre-tax income/(loss), capital ratios and return on regulatory capital, leverage exposure threshold, risk-weighted assets threshold and other targets and ambitions;
• the ability of counterparties to meet their obligations to us;
• the effects of, and changes in, fiscal, monetary, exchange rate, trade and tax policies, as well as currency fluctuations;
• political and social developments, including war, civil unrest or terrorist activity;
• the possibility of foreign exchange controls, expropriation, nationalization or confiscation of assets in countries in which we conduct our operations;
• operational factors such as systems failure, human error, or the failure to implement procedures properly;
• the risk of cyberattacks on our business or operations;
• actions taken by regulators with respect to our business and practices and possible resulting changes to our business organization, practices and policies in countries in which we conduct our operations;
• the effects of changes in laws, regulations or accounting policies or practices in countries in which we conduct our operations;
• the potential effects of proposed changes in our legal entity structure;
• competition or changes in our competitive position in geographic and business areas in which we conduct our operations;
• the ability to retain and recruit qualified personnel;
• the ability to maintain our reputation and promote our brand;
• the ability to increase market share and control expenses;
• technological changes;
• the timely development and acceptance of our new products and services and the perceived overall value of these products and services by users;
• acquisitions, including the ability to integrate acquired businesses successfully, and divestitures, including the ability to sell non-core assets;
• the adverse resolution of litigation, regulatory proceedings and other contingencies; and
• other unforeseen or unexpected events and our success at managing these and the risks involved in the foregoing.

We caution you that the foregoing list of important factors is not exclusive. When evaluating forward-looking statements, you should carefully consider the foregoing factors and other uncertainties and events, including the information set forth in 'Risk factors' in I - Information on the company in our Annual Report 2016.