Morgan Stanley is weighing the sale of its private bank in Switzerland which manages roughly 10 billion Swiss francs ($11.28 billion) in assets, a source close to the matter told Reuters. The U.S. bank is looking at several options, one of which is an outright sale, the person said on Wednesday.International banks including Standard Chartered have been offloading Swiss operations for reasons including the need to raise funds or because private banking is no longer core to their operations.Morgan Stanley has made changes to how it has organised its private bank in Asia, for which Switzerland was originally intended as a platform to expand, according to the source.The news was first reported by Swiss finance portal finews.ch on its website on Wednesday.
Morgan Stanley is a global financial services company that, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides its products and services to a range of clients and customers, including corporations, governments, financial institutions and individuals. Shares of MS traded higher by 2.78% or $0.84/share to $31.10. In the past year, the shares have traded as low as $20.16 and as high as $33.52. On average, 12935600 shares of MS exchange hands on a given day and today's volume is recorded at 11178954.
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