A host of prominent Swiss bankers have left the C-suite in recent months. The higher the peak, the trickier to find a new top job. finews.com lists eleven looking for their next step.

Paul Arni: A Few Changes Too Many?

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Even if he is one of the best private bankers in Switzerland, Paul Arni has never made it into a CEO job. His exit at Deutsche Bank’s Swiss private bank, where he fell prey to a reshuffle, doesn’t help. He suffered a similar fate at Julius Baer when that bank reorganized two years ago. And he left Credit Suisse abruptly five years ago.

A comeback either there or at UBS, where Arni began his career, seems improbable. A job as head of private banking at one of Switzerland’s bigger cantonal banks would be a better fit. Another option is a foreign bank looking to break into Switzerland; Arni's ex-Credit Suisse colleague Erich Pfister managed a soft landing as head of Oddo BHF in Switzerland after leaving troubled Falcon Private Bank