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Swiss regulator probes Credit Suisse directors, asks for phone data: Report

Switzerland's markets watchdog FINMA is examining the culture and governance at one of Europe's largest banks

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The sources did not identify which managers and board directors FINMA was seeking the mobile phone data for.

Reuters Frankfurt/Zurich
Swiss regulators have requested electronic messaging data from the mobile phones of several Credit Suisse managers and supervisory board directors as part of a probe into spying at the bank, three people familiar with the matter said.

Switzerland's markets watchdog FINMA is examining the culture and governance at one of Europe's largest banks and whether management control failures allowed spying on former executive board members Iqbal Khan and Peter Goerke, the sources told Reuters.

The sources did not identify which managers and board directors FINMA was seeking the mobile phone data for. FINMA declined to comment.

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