UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

Before the 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION 

In the Matter of: 

Credit Suisse International and 

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC 

Respondents. 

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CFTC Docket No. 22-47

ORDER INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS PURSUANT TO 

SECTION 6(c) AND (d) OF THE COMMODITY EXCHANGE ACT, MAKING 

FINDINGS, AND IMPOSING REMEDIAL SANCTIONS

I. INTRODUCTION

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“Commission”) has reason to believe that 

from at least 2018 to the present (“Relevant Period”), Credit Suisse International and Credit 

Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (“Credit Suisse” or “Respondents”) violated, as set forth below, 

Sections 4g, 4s(f)(1)(C), 4s(g)(1) and (3), and 4s(h)(1)(B) of the Commodity Exchange Act 

(“Act”), 7 U.S.C. §§ 6g, 6s(f)(1)(C), 6s(g)(1), (3), 6s(h)(1)(B), and Commission Regulations 

(“Regulations”) 1.31, 1.35, 23.201(a), 23.202(a)(1) and (b)(1), 23.602(a), and 166.3, 17 C.F.R. 

§§ 1.31, 1.35, 23.201(a), 23.202(a)(1), (b)(1), 23.602(a), 166.3 (2021). Therefore, the

Commission deems it appropriate and in the public interest that public administrative

proceedings be, and hereby are, instituted to determine whether Respondents engaged in the

violations set forth herein and to determine whether any order should be issued imposing

remedial sanctions.

In anticipation of the institution of an administrative proceeding, Respondents have 

submitted an Offer of Settlement (“Offer”), which the Commission has determined to accept. 

Respondents admit the facts set forth in Section II below, acknowledge that their conduct 

violated the Act and Regulations and consent to the entry of this Order Instituting Proceedings 

Pursuant to Section 6(c) and (d) of the Commodity Exchange Act, Making Findings, and 

Imposing Remedial Sanctions (“Order”), and acknowledge service of this Order.1

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 Respondents agree that the findings of fact and conclusions of law in this Order shall be taken as true and correct 

and be given preclusive effect without further proof in this proceeding and any other proceeding brought by the 

Commission or to which the Commission is a party or claimant, including but not limited to, a proceeding in 
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II. FINDINGS 

The Commission finds the following: 

A. SUMMARY 

 The Act and Regulations impose recordkeeping and supervision requirements on 

Commission registrants to ensure that they responsibly discharge their crucial role in our 

markets. Compliance with these requirements is essential to the Commission’s efforts to 

promote the integrity, resilience, and vibrancy of the U.S. derivatives markets through sound 

regulation. 

During the course of a Commission investigation into certain of Credit Suisse trading, 

Commission staff issued subpoenas to Credit Suisse for certain communications. Separately, 

Commission staff became aware of Credit Suisse employee use of unapproved communication 

methods for business conversations. 

In or about March 2022, Commission staff inquired about the use of unapproved 

communication methods by Credit Suisse traders. Thereafter, Credit Suisse notified 

Commission staff that the firm was aware of widespread and longstanding use by Credit Suisse 

employees of unapproved methods to engage in business-related communications. 

 

 The Commission’s subsequent investigation with respect to Credit Suisse’s employee use 

of unapproved methods of communication revealed that, during the Relevant Period, Credit 

Suisse employees, including those at senior levels, communicated both internally and externally 

using unapproved methods, including via personal text messages and WhatsApp messages. 

These written communications were sent and received by Credit Suisse employees and included 

messages related to Credit Suisse’s businesses as Commission registrants that were required to 

be maintained under Commission-mandated recordkeeping requirements. These written 

communications via unapproved methods generally were not maintained and preserved by Credit 

Suisse, and Credit Suisse generally would not have been able to furnish the communications 

promptly to a Commission representative if and when requested. As a result, Credit Suisse 

violated, as set forth below, Sections 4g, 4s(f)(1)(C), and 4s(g)(1) and (3) of the Act, 7 U.S.C. 

§§ 6g, 6s(f)(1)(C), 6s(g)(1), (3), and Regulations 1.31, 1.35, 23.201(a), and 23.202(a)(1) and 

(b)(1), 17 C.F.R. §§ 1.31, 1.35, 23.201(a), 23.202(a)(1), (b)(1) (2021). 

 In addition, the widespread use of unauthorized communication methods by Credit 

Suisse’s employees to conduct firm business violated Credit Suisse’s own policies and 

procedures, which prohibited such communications. Credit Suisse did not maintain adequate 

internal controls with respect to the use of unapproved communication methods for businessrelated communications. Indeed, some of the very same supervisory personnel at Credit Suisse 

responsible for ensuring compliance with Credit Suisse’s policies and procedures themselves 

utilized unapproved methods of communication to engage in business-related communications, 

in violation of firm policy. Because Credit Suisse failed to implement a diligent supervisory 

 

bankruptcy or receivership. Respondents do not consent to the use of the Offer or this Order, or the findings or 

conclusions in this Order, by any other party in any other proceeding.
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system to ensure compliance with Commission recordkeeping requirements and the firm’s own 

policies and procedures, and because the widespread use of unauthorized communication 

methods resulted in the firm’s failure to maintain Commission-required records, Credit Suisse 

failed to diligently supervise matters related to its business as a Commission registrant in 

violation of Section 4s(h)(1)(B) of the Act, 7 U.S.C. § 6s(h)(1)(B), and Regulations 166.3 and 

23.602(a), 17 C.F.R. §§ 166.3, 23.602(a) (2021), as set forth below. 

B. RESPONDENTS 

Credit Suisse International is an English company with its main office in London. 

Credit Suisse International is provisionally registered with the Commission as a swap dealer.

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC is a U.S. limited liability company with its main 

office in New York, New York. Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC is registered with the 

Commission as a Futures Commission Merchant (“FCM”). 

C. FACTS 

During the course of a Commission investigation into certain of Credit Suisse’s trading, 

Commission staff issued subpoenas to Credit Suisse for specified communications. Separately, 

Commission staff became aware of Credit Suisse employee use of unapproved communication 

methods for business conversations. Credit Suisse did not collect, search, or review those 

messages to assess whether such communications were responsive to the Commission’s 

subpoenas because the messages were sent or received through unapproved communication 

methods on those employees’ personal devices. 

In or about March 2022, Commission staff inquired about Credit Suisse traders 

communicating via unapproved communication methods, including personal text and WhatsApp 

messages, that were apparently not surveilled and maintained by Credit Suisse. In response to 

Commission staff’s questions regarding Credit Suisse employees’ use of unapproved 

communication methods, Credit Suisse disclosed that it had conducted a review of the use of 

unapproved communications methods by its employees. That review demonstrated that there 

was widespread and longstanding use of unapproved communication methods by employees—

including senior-level employees, swap dealer associated persons and Futures Commission 

Merchant associated persons—to engage in firm business, including relating to trading in CFTC 

regulated derivatives markets. 

Importantly, during the Relevant Period, Credit Suisse policies and procedures broadly 

prohibited employees from using unapproved communication methods, such as personal text 

messages and WhatsApp, to engage in business-related communications. 

Messages sent through Credit Suisse-approved communications methods were 

monitored, subject to review, and when appropriate, archived. By contrast, messages sent using 

unapproved communication methods, including over personal WhatsApp, email, and text 

messages on personal devices, were generally not monitored, subject to review, or archived. 
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As a result of Credit Suisse’s failure to ensure that employees—including supervisors and 

senior-level employees—complied with the firm’s communications policies and procedures, 

Credit Suisse failed to maintain thousands of business-related communications, including 

communications in connection with its commodities and swaps businesses, and thus failed 

diligently to supervise its businesses as Commission registrants. These supervision failures 

resulted in the widespread use of unapproved methods of communication by many Credit Suisse 

employees in violation of the firm’s policies and procedures, as well as a widespread failure to 

maintain certain records required to be maintained pursuant to Commission recordkeeping 

requirements. 

A sampling analysis, for example, of the personal devices of thirty-three Credit Suisse 

employees, including four associated persons of Credit Suisse’s Futures Commission Merchant 

business, illustrates the breadth of Credit Suisse’s supervision and recordkeeping failures. Of 

those thirty-three employees, who ranged in seniority from Vice President to Managing Director, 

the vast majority had violated Credit Suisse’s communications policies and procedures by using 

personal text message and other unapproved methods to communicate with brokers, coworkers, 

and market participants. Further, those employees’ communications revealed that many more 

Credit Suisse employees (including numerous Managing Directors and senior supervisors) 

conducted firm business via unapproved methods (including in thousands of text and WhatsApp 

messages). 

The Commission’s investigation concluded that certain of the communications by Credit 

Suisse employees using unapproved communication methods constituted records that were 

required to be kept pursuant to Commission recordkeeping requirements, but were not preserved 

and maintained by Credit Suisse. Commission staff informed Credit Suisse that staff obtained 

communications from a third party that reflected Credit Suisse employee use of unapproved 

communication methods for business conversations. 

Credit Suisse’s recordkeeping and supervision failures were firm-wide and involved 

employees at all levels of authority. Moreover, employees’ use of unapproved communication 

methods was not hidden within the firm. To the contrary, certain supervisors—the very people 

responsible for supervising employees to prevent this misconduct—routinely communicated 

using unapproved methods on their personal devices. In fact, Managing Directors and senior 

supervisors responsible for implementing Credit Suisse’s policies and procedures, and for 

overseeing employees’ compliance with those policies and procedures, themselves failed to 

comply with firm policies by communicating using unapproved methods on their personal 

devices about the firm’s Commission-regulated businesses. 

III. LEGAL DISCUSSION 

A. Credit Suisse International’s Failure to Maintain Required Records in 

Violation of Sections 4s(f)(1)(C) and 4s(g)(1) and (3) of the Act and 

Regulations 23.201(a) and 23.202(a)(1) and (b)(1) 

Section 4s(f)(1)(C) of the Act obligates swap dealers to keep “books and records of all 

activities related to its business as a swap dealer . . . in such form and manner and for such period 

as may be prescribed by the Commission by rule or regulation” and those books and records 
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must be kept “open to inspection and examination by any representative of the Commission.” 

7 U.S.C. § 6s(f)(1)(C); see also Section 4s(g)(1) and (3) of the Act, 7 U.S.C. § 6s(g)(1), (3) 

(requiring swap dealers to keep daily trading and counterparty records). These statutes are 

implemented, among other places, at Regulations 23.201(a) and 23.202(a)(1) and (b)(1), 

17 C.F.R. §§ 23.201(a), 23.202(a)(1), (b)(1) (2021). 

Regulation 23.201(a) obligates a swap dealer to “keep full, complete, and systematic 

records, together with all pertinent data and memoranda, of all its swaps activities,” including 

“[r]ecords of each transaction, including all documents on which transaction information is 

originally recorded.” Regulation 23.202(a)(1) and (b)(1) requires, in relevant part, every swap 

dealer to keep daily trading records of all swaps and related cash and forward transactions it 

executes including, specifically, a record of oral and written communications provided or 

received concerning quotes, solicitations, bids, offers, instructions, trading, and prices that led to 

the execution of a swap transaction or the conclusion of a related cash or forward transaction. 

During the Relevant Period, as a result of the widespread employee use of unapproved 

communication methods, Credit Suisse International failed to maintain Commission-required 

transaction records and pre-execution communications. By this conduct, Credit Suisse 

International violated Sections 4s(f)(1)(C) and 4s(g)(1) and (3) of the Act and Regulations 

23.201(a) and 23.202(a)(1) and (b)(1). 

B. Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC’s Failure to Keep Required Records in 

Violation of Section 4g of the Act and Regulation 1.35 

Section 4g of the Act requires FCMs and other registrants to create and keep books and 

records pertaining to transactions and positions in such form and manner and for such period as 

may be required by the Commission. 7 U.S.C. § 6g. Regulation 1.35(a)(1), 17 C.F.R. 

§ 1.35(a)(1) (2021), sets forth some of the books and records that are required to be created and 

maintained by FCMs. Specifically, an FCM must: 

(i) Keep full, complete, and systematic records . . . of all transactions relating to 

its business of dealing in commodity interests . . . which shall include all orders 

(filled, unfilled, or canceled), . . . and all other records, which have been prepared 

in the course of its business of dealing in commodity interests . . . . 

 

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(iii) Keep all oral and written communications provided or received concerning 

quotes, solicitations, bids, offers, instructions, trading, and prices that lead to the 

execution of a transaction in a commodity interest . . . whether transmitted by 

telephone, voicemail, facsimile, instant messaging, chat rooms, electronic mail, 

mobile device, or other digital or electronic media . . . . 

With the exception of pre-trade communications, all such records are required to be “kept in a 

form and manner that allows for the identification of a particular transaction.” Regulation 

1.35(a)(5), 17 C.F.R. § 1.35(a)(5) (2021). 
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As a result of the widespread use of unapproved methods of communication by firm 

employees, which communications were not preserved and maintained, Credit Suisse failed to 

keep full, complete, and systematic records of all transactions relating to its business of dealing 

in commodity interests, in violation of Section 4g of the Act and Regulation 1.35.

C. Credit Suisse International and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC’s 

Failure to Keep Records in Required Manner in Violation of Regulation 1.31 

Regulation 1.31(b)(4), 17 C.F.R. § 1.31(b)(4) (2021), requires that registrants keep all 

books and records that are required to be maintained under the Act and Regulations in such 

manner as to make them “readily accessible” for a period of two years for paper records and for 

the duration of the retention period for electronic records. Upon request of the Commission, all 

of these documents are required to be “promptly” produced. Regulation 1.31(d), 17 C.F.R. 

§ 1.31(d) (2021). Regulation 23.203(b)(1), 17 C.F.R. § 23.203(b)(1) (2021), requires that 

records required to be kept pursuant to Part 23 of the Regulations, be kept in accordance with 

Regulation 1.31, 17 C.F.R. § 1.31 (2021). 

By failing to keep all Commission-required records in such a manner as to make them 

“readily accessible,” Credit Suisse violated Regulation 1.31. 

D. Credit Suisse International’s Failure to Supervise Diligently in Violation of 

Section 4s(h)(1)(B) of the Act and Regulation 23.602(a) 

Section 4s(h)(1)(B) of the Act, 7 U.S.C. § 6s(h)(1)(B), requires “diligent supervision of 

the business of the registered swap dealer[.]” Regulation 23.602(a) requires that each swap 

dealer “shall establish and maintain a system to supervise, and shall diligently supervise, all 

activities relating to its business performed by its partners, members, officers, employees, and 

agents (or persons occupying a similar status or performing a similar function).” 17 C.F.R. § 

23.602(a) (2021). The operative language of Regulation 23.602(a) is similar to the language of 

the Commission’s longstanding supervision regulation for futures and options, Regulation 166.3, 

17 C.F.R. § 166.3 (2021). 

Under Regulation 23.602(a), a violation is demonstrated by showing either that: (1) the 

registrant’s supervisory system was generally inadequate; or (2) the registrant failed to perform 

its supervisory duties diligently. See In re JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., CFTC No. 22-07, 2021 

WL 6098347, at *6 (Dec. 17, 2021) (consent order); see also In re Commerzbank AG, CFTC No. 

19-03, 2018 WL 5921385, at *10-11 (Nov. 8, 2018) (consent order) (noting textual similarities 

between Regulation 23.602 and Regulation 166.3, applying case law concerning Regulation 

166.3, and citing In re Murlas Commodities, Inc., CFTC No. 85-29, 1995 WL 523563, at *9 

(Sept. 1, 1995), and In re Paragon Futures Assoc., CFTC No. 88-18, 1992 WL 74261, at *14 

(Apr. 1, 1992)); In re INTL FCStone Markets, LLC, CFTC No. 15-27, 2015 WL 4980321, at *3 

(Aug. 19, 2015) (consent order) (same). Either showing “alone is sufficient to establish a 

violation of the supervision requirement.” Commerzbank, 2018 WL 5921385, at *10 

(interpreting Regulation 23.602 in light of Regulation 166.3 precedents). No evidence of an 

underlying violation is necessary. In re Collins, CFTC No. 94-13, 1997 WL 761927, at *10 

(Dec. 10, 1997) (interpreting Regulation 166.3). Evidence of violations that “‘should be detected 
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by a diligent system of supervision, either because of the nature of the violations or because the 

violations have occurred repeatedly,’ is probative of a failure to supervise.” See In re Bank of 

Nova Scotia, CFTC No. 20-26, 2020 WL 4926053, at *10 (Aug. 19, 2020) (consent order) 

(quoting In re Société Générale Int’l Ltd., CFTC No. 19-38, 2009 WL 4915485, at *7 (Sept. 30, 

2019) (consent order)). 

Credit Suisse International failed to supervise its swap dealer business activities 

diligently during the Relevant Period. Credit Suisse International failed to maintain an adequate 

supervisory system to ensure that employees did not utilize unapproved methods to engage in 

communications relating to firm business, including the swap dealer business. Credit Suisse 

International’s failure to diligently supervise is demonstrated by its failure to detect, prevent, and 

remediate repeated violations of Credit Suisse International’s Commission recordkeeping 

requirements and its firm policies and procedures. Supervisory personnel failed to ensure that 

employees complied with Credit Suisse International’s Commission recordkeeping obligations 

and firm communications policies and in some instances themselves violated the policies. These 

supervision failures also resulted in the failure to keep and maintain Commission-required 

records and the failure to maintain the records in such a manner as to make them readily 

available. By this conduct, Credit Suisse International failed to supervise diligently its officers, 

employees, and agents, in violation of Section 4s(h)(1)(B) of the Act and Regulation 23.602(a).

E. Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC’s Failure to Diligently Supervise in 

Violation of Regulation 166.3 

Regulation 166.3 states: 

Each Commission registrant, except an associated person who has no supervisory 

duties, must diligently supervise the handling by its partners, officers, employees 

and agents (or persons occupying a similar status or performing a similar 

function) of all commodity interest accounts carried, operated, advised or 

introduced by the registrant and all other activities of its partners, officers, 

employees and agents (or persons occupying a similar status or performing a 

similar function) relating to its business as a Commission registrant. 

17 C.F.R. § 166.3 (2021). 

A violation under Regulation 166.3 is an independent violation for which no underlying 

violation is necessary. See Collins, 1997 WL 761927, at *10. A violation of Regulation 166.3 is 

demonstrated by showing either that: (1) the registrant’s supervisory system was generally 

inadequate; or (2) the registrant failed to perform its supervisory duties diligently. Murlas 

Commodities, Inc., 1995 WL 523563, at *9; Sansom Refining Co. v. Drexel Burnham Lambert, 

Inc., CFTC No. 82-R448, 1990 WL 282783, at *11 (Feb. 16, 1990) (noting that, under 

Regulation 166.3, registrants have “duty to develop procedures for the detection and deterrence 

of possible wrongdoing by [their] agents” (internal quotation omitted)); In re GNP Commodities, 

Inc., CFTC No. 89-1, 1992 WL 201158, at *17-19 (Aug. 11, 1992) (providing that, even if an 

adequate supervisory system is in place, Regulation 166.3 can still be violated if the supervisory 

system is not diligently administered); see also In re Rosenthall Collins Grp., LLC, CFTC No. 
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12-18, 2012 WL 1242406, at *6 (Apr. 12, 2012) (consent order) (respondent failed to perform 

supervisory duties diligently by not following its compliance procedures that were in place). 

Evidence of violations that “should be detected by a diligent system of supervision, either 

because of the nature of the violations or because the violations have occurred repeatedly” is 

probative of a failure to diligently supervise. In re Paragon Futures Assoc., CFTC No. 88-18, 

1992 WL 74261, at *14 (Apr. 1, 1992) (“The focus of any proceeding to determine whether Rule 

166.3 has been violated will be on whether [a] review [has] occurred and, if it did, whether it was 

‘diligent.’”). 

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC failed to supervise its business as a Commission 

registrant diligently during the Relevant Period by failing to maintain adequate supervisory 

systems to ensure that employees complied with Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC’s 

Commission recordkeeping requirements and firm policies and procedures that prohibited 

business-related communications on unapproved methods of communication. The inadequacy of 

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC’s supervisory systems is demonstrated by the longstanding 

and repeated violations of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC’s Commission recordkeeping 

obligations and firm policies and procedures and the fact that the supervisory failures resulted in 

the repeated failure to maintain Commission-required records, to ensure that the required records 

were readily accessible, and that the records could be promptly produced upon request. By this 

conduct, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC failed to supervise diligently its officers, 

employees, and agents in violation of Regulation 166.3. 

IV. FINDINGS OF VIOLATIONS 

Based on the foregoing, the Commission finds that, during the Relevant Period, Credit 

Suisse International violated Sections 4s(f)(1)(C), 4s(g)(1) and (3), and 4s(h)(1)(B) of the Act, 

7 U.S.C. §§ 6s(f)(1)(C), 6s(g)(1), (3), 6s(h)(1)(B), and Regulations 1.31, 23.201(a), 23.202(a)(1) 

and (b)(1), and 23.602(a), 17 C.F.R. §§ 1.31, 23.201(a), 23.202(a)(1), (b)(1), 23.602(a) (2021); 

and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC violated Section 4g of the Act, 7 U.S.C. § 6g, and 

Regulations 1.31, 1.35, and 166.3, 17 C.F.R. §§ 1.31, 1.35, 166.3 (2021). 

V. OFFER OF SETTLEMENT 

Respondents have submitted the Offer in which they: 

A. Acknowledge service of this Order; 

B. Admit the facts described in Section II above and acknowledge that their conduct 

violated the Act and Regulations; 

C. Admit the jurisdiction of the Commission with respect to all matters set forth in this 

Order and for any action or proceeding brought or authorized by the Commission based 

on violation of or enforcement of this Order; 

D. Waive: 

1. The filing and service of a complaint and notice of hearing; 
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2. A hearing; 

3. All post-hearing procedures; 

4. Judicial review by any court; 

5. Any and all objections to the participation by any member of the Commission’s 

staff in the Commission’s consideration of the Offer; 

6. Any and all claims that they may possess under the Equal Access to Justice Act, 

5 U.S.C. § 504, and 28 U.S.C. § 2412, and/or the rules promulgated by the 

Commission in conformity therewith, Part 148 of the Regulations, 17 C.F.R. 

pt. 148 (2021), relating to, or arising from, this proceeding; 

7. Any and all claims that they may possess under the Small Business Regulatory 

Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996, Pub. L. No. 104-121, tit. II, §§ 201–253, 110 

Stat. 847, 857–74 (codified as amended at 28 U.S.C. § 2412 and in scattered 

sections of 5 U.S.C. and 15 U.S.C.), relating to, or arising from, this proceeding; 

and 

8. Any claims of Double Jeopardy based on the institution of this proceeding or the 

entry in this proceeding of any order imposing a civil monetary penalty or any 

other relief, including this Order; 

E. Stipulate that the record basis on which this Order is entered shall consist solely of the 

findings contained in this Order to which Respondents have consented in the Offer; 

F. Consent, solely on the basis of the Offer, to the Commission’s entry of this Order that: 

1. Makes findings by the Commission that Credit Suisse International violated 

Sections 4s(f)(1)(C), 4s(g)(1) and (3), and 4s(h)(1)(B) of the Act, 7 U.S.C. 

§§ 6s(f)(1)(C), 6s(g)(1), (3), 6s(h)(1)(B), and Regulations 1.31, 23.201(a), 

23.202(a)(1) and (b)(1), and 23.602(a), 17 C.F.R. §§ 1.31, 23.201(a), 23.202(a)(1), 

(b)(1), 23.602(a) (2021); and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC violated Section 

4g of the Act, 7 U.S.C. § 6g, and Regulations 1.31, 1.35, and 166.3, 17 C.F.R. 

§§ 1.31, 1.35, 166.3 (2021); 

2. Orders Credit Suisse International to cease and desist from violating Sections 

4s(f)(1)(C), 4s(g)(1) and (3), and 4s(h)(1)(B) of the Act, and Regulations 1.31, 

23.201(a), 23.202(a)(1) and (b)(1), and 23.602(a); and Credit Suisse Securities 

(USA) LLC to cease and desist from violating Section 4g of the Act and 

Regulations 1.31, 1.35, and 166.3; 

3. Orders Respondents to pay, jointly and severally, a civil monetary penalty in the 

amount of seventy-five million US dollars ($75,000,000), plus post-judgment 

interest within fourteen days of the date of entry of this Order; and 
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4. Orders Respondents and their successors and assigns to comply with the conditions 

and undertakings consented to in the Offer and as set forth in Part VI of this Order; 

and 

G. Represent that Respondents have engaged in a review of certain recordkeeping failures 

and begun a program of remediation. 

Upon consideration, the Commission has determined to accept the Offer. 

VI. ORDER 

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT: 

A. Credit Suisse International and its successors and assigns shall cease and desist from 

violating Sections 4s(f)(1)(C), 4s(g)(1) and (3), and 4s(h)(1)(B) of the Act, 7 U.S.C. 

§§ 6s(f)(1)(C), 6s(g)(1), (3), 6s(h)(1)(B), and Regulations 1.31, 23.201(a), 23.202(a)(1) 

and (b)(1), and 23.602(a), 17 C.F.R. §§ 1.31, 23.201(a), 23.202(a)(1), (b)(1), 23.602(a) 

(2021); and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and its successors and assigns shall 

cease and desist from violating Section 4g of the Act, 7 U.S.C. § 6g, and Regulations 

1.31, 1.35, and 166.3, 17 C.F.R. §§ 1.31, 1.35, 166.3 (2021). 

B. Respondents shall pay, jointly and severally, a civil monetary penalty in the amount of 

seventy-five million US dollars ($75,000,000) (“CMP Obligation”), within fourteen days 

of the date of the entry of this Order. If the CMP Obligation is not paid in full within 

fourteen days of the date of entry of this Order, then post-judgment interest shall accrue 

on the CMP Obligation beginning on the date of entry of this Order and shall be 

determined by using the Treasury Bill rate prevailing on the date of entry of this Order 

pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1961. 

Respondents shall pay the CMP Obligation and any post-judgment interest by electronic 

funds transfer, U.S. postal money order, certified check, bank cashier’s check, or bank 

money order. If payment is to be made other than by electronic funds transfer, then the 

payment shall be made payable to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and sent 

to the address below:

MMAC/ESC/AMK326 

Commodity Futures Trading Commission 

6500 S. MacArthur Blvd. 

HQ Room 266 

Oklahoma City, OK 73169 

9-AMC-AR-CFTC@faa.gov 

 If payment is to be made by electronic funds transfer, Credit Suisse shall contact Tonia 

King or her successor at the above email address to receive payment instructions and 

shall fully comply with those instructions. Respondents shall accompany payment of the 

CMP Obligation with a cover letter that identifies the paying Respondent(s) and the name 

and docket number of this proceeding. The paying Respondent(s) shall simultaneously 

transmit copies of the cover letter and the form of payment to the Chief Financial Officer, 
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Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st Street, NW, 

Washington, D.C. 20581; 

C. Respondents and their successors and assigns shall comply with the following conditions 

and undertakings set forth in the Offer: 

1. Credit Suisse shall conduct: 

a. A comprehensive review of Credit Suisse’s supervisory, compliance, and 

other policies and procedures designed to ensure that Credit Suisse’s 

electronic communications, including those found on personal electronic 

devices, including without limitation, cellular phones (“Personal Devices”), 

are preserved in accordance with the requirements of the Act, the Regulations, 

and Credit Suisse’s policies and procedures. 

b. A comprehensive review of training conducted by Credit Suisse to ensure 

personnel are complying with the requirements regarding the preservation of 

electronic communications, including those found on Personal Devices, in 

accordance with the requirements of the Act and the Regulations, and Credit 

Suisse’s policies and procedures, including by ensuring that Credit Suisse 

personnel certify in writing on a quarterly basis that they are complying with 

preservation requirements. 

c. An assessment of the surveillance program measures implemented by Credit 

Suisse to ensure compliance, on an ongoing basis, with the requirements 

found in the Act, the Regulations, and Credit Suisse’s policies and procedures 

to preserve electronic communications, including those found on Personal 

Devices. 

d. An assessment of the technological solutions that Credit Suisse has begun 

implementing to meet the record retention requirements of the Act, the 

Regulations, and Credit Suisse’s policies and procedures, including an 

assessment of the likelihood that Credit Suisse personnel will use the 

technological solutions going forward and a review of the measures employed 

by Credit Suisse to track employee usage of new technological solutions. 

e. An assessment of the measures used by Credit Suisse to prevent the use of 

unauthorized communications methods for business communications by 

employees. This assessment should include, but not be limited to, a review of 

the firm’s policies and procedures to ascertain if they provide for any 

significant technology and/or behavioral restrictions that help prevent the risk 

of the use of unapproved communications methods on Personal Devices (e.g., 

trading floor restrictions). 

f. A review of Credit Suisse’s electronic communications surveillance routines 

to ensure that electronic communications through approved communications 
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methods found on Personal Devices are incorporated into Credit Suisse’s 

overall communications surveillance program. 

g. A comprehensive review of the framework adopted by Credit Suisse to 

address instances of non-compliance by Credit Suisse employees with Credit 

Suisse’s policies and procedures concerning the use of Personal Devices to 

communicate about Credit Suisse business in the past. This review shall 

include a survey of how Credit Suisse determined which employees failed to 

comply with Credit Suisse policies and procedures, the corrective action 

carried out, an evaluation of who violated policies and why, what penalties 

were imposed, and whether penalties were handed out consistently across 

business lines and seniority levels. 

2. Written Report of Findings: 

a. Within forty-five (45) days after completion of the review set forth in subparagraphs 1.a. through 1.g. above, Credit Suisse shall submit a detailed 

written report of its findings to the Commission staff (the “Report”). The 

Report shall include a description of the review performed, the names of the 

individuals who performed the review, the conclusions reached, and a 

summary of the plan for implementing the recommended changes in or 

improvements to Credit Suisse’s policies and procedures. 

b. Credit Suisse shall adopt all recommendations contained in the Report within 

one hundred and thirty-five (135) days of the date of the Report. 

c. The Report will likely include confidential financial, proprietary, competitive 

business or commercial information. Public disclosure of the reports could 

discourage cooperation, impede pending or potential government 

investigations or undermine the objectives of the reporting requirement. For 

these reasons, among others, the reports and the contents thereof are intended 

to remain and shall remain non-public, except (1) pursuant to court order; 

(2) as agreed to by the parties in writing; (3) to the extent that the Commission 

determines in its sole discretion that disclosure would be in furtherance of the 

Commission’s discharge of its duties and responsibilities; or (4) is otherwise 

required by law. 

3. One-Year Evaluation: Credit Suisse shall assess its program for the preservation, as 

required under the Act, Regulations, and Credit Suisse’s policies and procedures, of 

electronic communications, including those found on Personal Devices, commencing 

one year after submitting the Report required by Paragraph 2.a. above. Credit Suisse 

shall require this review to evaluate Credit Suisse’s progress in the areas described in 

Paragraph 1.a. through 1.g. above. After this review, Credit Suisse shall submit a 

report (the “One Year Report”) to the Commission staff and shall ensure that the One 

Year Report includes an updated assessment of Credit Suisse’s policies and 

procedures with regard to the preservation of electronic communications (including 
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those found on Personal Devices), training, surveillance programs, and technological 

solutions implemented in the prior year period. 

4. Reporting Discipline Imposed: For two years following the entry of this Order, 

Credit Suisse shall notify the Commission staff as follows upon the imposition of any 

discipline imposed by Credit Suisse, including, but not limited to, written warnings, 

loss of any pay, bonus, or incentive compensation, or the termination of employment, 

with respect to any employee found to have violated Credit Suisse’s policies and 

procedures concerning the preservation of electronic communications, including 

those found on Personal Devices: (1) at least 48 hours before the filing of a Form 8-

T; or (2) within ten (10) days of the imposition of other discipline. 

5. Recordkeeping: Credit Suisse shall preserve, for a period of not less than six (6) 

years from the end of the fiscal year last used, the first two (2) years in an easily 

accessible place, any record of compliance with these undertakings. 

6. Public Statements: Respondents agree that neither they nor any of their successors 

and assigns, agents or employees under their authority or control shall take any action 

or make any public statement denying, directly or indirectly, any findings or 

conclusions in this Order or creating, or tending to create, the impression that this 

Order is without a factual basis; provided, however, that nothing in this provision 

shall affect Respondents’: (1) testimonial obligations; or (2) right to take legal 

positions in other proceedings to which the Commission is not a party. Respondents 

and their successors and assigns shall comply with this agreement, and shall 

undertake all steps necessary to ensure that all of their agents and/or employees under 

their authority or control understand and comply with this agreement. 

7. Cooperation, in General: Respondents shall cooperate fully and expeditiously with 

the Commission, including the Commission’s Division of Enforcement, in this action, 

and in any current or future Commission investigation or action related thereto. 

Respondents shall also cooperate in any investigation, civil litigation, or 

administrative matter related to, or arising from, the subject matter of this action. 

8. Partial Satisfaction: Respondents understand and agree that any acceptance by the 

Commission of any partial payment of Respondents’ CMP Obligation shall not be 

deemed a waiver of their obligation to make further payments pursuant to this Order, 

or a waiver of the Commission’s right to seek to compel payment of any remaining 

balance. 

9. Deadlines: For good cause shown, Division staff may extend any of the procedural 

dates relating to the undertakings. Unless otherwise specified, deadlines for 

procedural dates shall be counted in calendar days, except that if the last day falls on 

a weekend or federal holiday, the next business day shall be considered to be the last 

day. 
10. Change of Address/Phone: Until such time as Respondents satisfy in full their CMP 

Obligation as set forth in this Order, Respondents shall provide written notice to the 

Commission by certified mail of any change to their telephone numbers and mailing 

addresses within ten calendar days of the change. 

The provisions of this Order shall be effective as of this date. 

By the Commission. 

01¥ 1-. JcW 

Christopher J. Kirkpatrick 

Secretary of the Commission 

Commodity Futures Trading Commission 

Dated: September 27, 2022 

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