Saudi National Bank chair resigns just days after Credit Suisse comments sparked sell-off
Source: CNBC
Saudi National Bank Chairman Ammar al-Khudairy resigned his post on Monday, days after his comments exacerbated the share collapse of troubled bank Credit Suisse.
He will be replaced by SNB Managing Director and Group CEO Mohammed al-Ghamdi, with former deputy Talal Ahmed al-Khereiji now the new SNB acting CEO, according to a SNB statement to the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul). Al-Khudairy is stepping down “due to personal reasons,” the bank said.
Al-Khudairy’s resignation comes within days of his mid-March comments to Bloomberg that SNB was unlikely to increase its stake in Credit Suisse, at a time when the European lender battled a crisis of investor confidence that plunged its shares. The then-SNB chairman said the Saudi bank would not intercede “for many reasons outside the simplest reason, which is regulatory and statutory.”
The comments fueled investor panic, sinking Credit Suisse shares 24% during that session, despite effectively reiterating SNB’s previous position that it did not intend to expand its holdings beyond its then 9.9% interest as Credit Suisse’s largest shareholder.
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Didn't realize they were the largest share-holder.
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