Credit Suisse, the investment bank whose shares plummeted to record lows this week over fears it could be on the brink of collapse<\/a>, is selling the five-star Savoy hotel in the centre of Zurich for as much as 400m Swiss francs (\u00a3361m).<\/p>\n The bank, whose stock has fallen by more than 40% in the past six months, said on Thursday it had put the 184-year-old hotel on Paradeplatz in the heart of the city\u2019s financial district on the market as part of a regular review of its global real estate assets.<\/p>\n \u201cAs part of this process, the bank has decided to start a sales process for the Hotel Savoy,\u201d a spokesperson said. \u201cWe will carefully assess all offers and potential investors and communicate any decision in due course.\u201d<\/p>\n The news was first reported by the financial news blog Inside Paradeplatz<\/a>. It said the hotel, which is undergoing a major refurbishment and due to reopen in 2024 as Hotel Mandarin Oriental Savoy Zurich, was the bank\u2019s last remaining \u201ctrophy asset\u201d and described its sale as a \u201cking-size distress signal\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThe intended sale of the Savoy shows how serious the situation at the big bank is. Despite the conversion and restart as Mandarin in 2024, [Credit Suisse] apparently wants to part with the noble building in a top location as an emergency,\u201d said the blog, which is written by Lukas H\u00e4ssig and has broken a string of market-moving stories in Switzerland<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThe CS bosses feel compelled to throw everything that still has value on the market. You need liquidity to stay afloat \u2013 too many customers are running away.\u201d<\/p>\n Credit Suisse has had to urgently raise capital, stop share buybacks and cut its dividend after a serious of crises and scandals. The bank plunged from a profit of Sfr2.7bn in 2020 to a loss of Sfr1.6bn last year, driven mostly by big losses on its investments in the failed supply chain finance group Greensill<\/a> and the hedge fund Archegos \u2013 where US authorities have charged founder Bill Hwang<\/a> and three others with racketeering and fraud offences after its collapse.<\/p>\n