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Welcome to the views room. I'm Peter Falarsen, an EMEA editor of Reuters Breaking Views, coming to you from North West London. For this week's edition, I talk to Breaking Views columnists about the latest upheaval at one of Switzerland's largest banks and a 50 billion pound tussle between two of Britain's biggest consumer goods companies. First, Liam Proud talks about the sudden departure of Antonio Horta Ozorio,

the high-flying bank executive who had taken over as chairman of Credit Suisse less than a year ago.

The latest in a series of unfortunate developments at the bank, which has been rocked by a spying scandal,

and the high-profile collapses of clients, including the Archegos hedge fund and supply chain lender

Greensill. Liam explains why breaching COVID quarantine rules cost Horta Ozeria his job,

and offers some tongue-in-cheek advice on the next steps in his career. After that, Amy Donovan and Dasha Afanasieva

discussed Unilever's surprising 50 billion-pound takeover bid for the Consumer Division of Glackso-Smith

Climb, the UK Drugs Giant. It's a high-stakes gamble by Unilever boss Alan Jope, who's under

pressure from shareholders grumbling about the performance of the

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