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New Markets

The Private Banking division regularly organizes innovative study trips to emerging markets for interested entrepreneurs and investors.

These "interactive field trips" go to markets that are relatively unfamiliar but have interesting investment potential. Participants get to enjoy an all-round experience, with opportunities to meet politicians and business people, and introductions to companies and institutions.

Markets

India

Mid-March 2010 saw Credit Suisse host its seventh interactive field trip for clients and investors. The jam-packed trip took participants to New Delhi and Mumbai, India's two most important metropolises. The wide variety of issues discussed ranged from urgently needed infrastructure projects to the multiple award-winning dabbawala lunchbox delivery service in Mumbai.
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Tanzania

Thanks to an abundance of raw materials, a booming telecoms market, and endless potential with regard to microfinance opportunities, Africa could become one of the world's most important emerging markets in the next few years. But what does being a microfinance entrepreneur in Africa mean? To find some answers, Credit Suisse invited potential investors to Tanzania in June 2009.
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Central Asia

In fall 2008 a delegation traveled to the heart of Central Asia. The tour took visitors along the Silk Road through Tajikistan, Uzbekistan und Kazakhstan – three countries that could hardly be more different with respect to their culture and economy. What they have in common is an absolute determination to make the breakthrough into the globalized economy.
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Vietnam

The March 2008 interactive field trip headed for the Asian tiger Vietnam. Since joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) at the beginning of 2007 the country has made tremendous progress. Thanks to structural reforms, political stability, highly competitive costs and the youngest population in Asia, it is one of the fastest growing economies in the world.
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Bulgaria

The new EU countries were the focus of the summer 2007 interactive field trip. Some 25 investors visited Bulgaria, intending to find out whether this new member would be able to match the success of earlier accession countries.
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Boston, USA

Nanotechnology was the theme of a delegation that traveled to Boston in September 2006. Boston proved the ideal destination for visiting companies engaged in nanotechnology and getting some interesting insights into the current state of research. Researchers in this field hope to find cures for cancer, generate energy and hugely accelerate computing speeds.
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Estonia

The first interactive field trip, under the banner of the "cyber society," headed for Estonia in the summer of 2006. Estonia had managed to transform itself from a socialist planned economy to a modern free market economy in only fifteen years. Thanks to a consistent policy of promoting internet usage, Estonia is more advanced in this area than many western European countries. Not only are all of its schools online, but in 2005 the country also became the first in the world to offer internet voting in elections.
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