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The knowledge on this preliminary pricing complement Topic to completion dated September 1, 2022. |
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FINANCIAL PRODUCTS | |
Preliminary Pricing Complement No. Okay2176 To the Underlying Complement dated June 18, 2020, Product Complement No. I-B dated June 18, 2020, Prospectus Complement dated June 18, 2020 and Prospectus dated June 18, 2020 |
Filed Pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2) Registration Assertion No. 333-238458-02 September 1, 2022 |
$
Buffered Accelerated Return Fairness
Securities due April 5, 2024
Linked to the Efficiency of the Lowest
Performing of the S&P 500® Index and the Russell 2000® Index
· | Buyers won’t obtain any curiosity or dividend funds and will lose a good portion of their principal at maturity. |
· | At maturity, if the Ultimate Degree of the Lowest Performing Underlying is the same as or higher than its Preliminary Degree, traders will obtain the principal quantity of their funding plus a return primarily based on the leveraged upside efficiency of such Underlying, topic to the Most Return. If the Ultimate Degree of the Lowest Performing Underlying is lower than its Preliminary Degree however equal to or higher than its Buffer Degree, traders will obtain the principal quantity of their funding. Nonetheless, if the Ultimate Degree of the Lowest Performing Underlying is lower than its Buffer Degree, traders will lose 1% of their principal for every 1% decline from its Preliminary Degree to its Ultimate Degree past its Buffer Degree. You possibly can lose as much as $900 per $1,000 principal quantity. |
· | Senior unsecured obligations of Credit score Suisse maturing April 5, 2024. Any fee on the securities is topic to our potential to pay our obligations as they change into due. |
· | Minimal buy of $1,000. Minimal denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in extra thereof. |
· | The providing worth for the securities is predicted to be decided on or about September 30, 2022 (the “Commerce Date”), and the securities are anticipated to choose or about October 5, 2022 (the “Settlement Date”). Supply of the securities in book-entry type solely will likely be made by means of The Depository Belief Firm. |
· | The securities won’t be listed on any change. |
Investing within the securities includes quite a few dangers. See “Chosen
Danger Concerns” starting on web page 7 of this pricing complement and “Danger Components” starting on web page PS-Three of
any accompanying product complement.
Neither the Securities and Trade Fee nor any state securities
fee has authorized or disapproved of the securities or handed upon the accuracy or the adequacy of this pricing complement or the
accompanying underlying complement, any product complement, the prospectus complement and the prospectus. Any illustration on the contrary
is a legal offense.
Worth to Public(1) | Underwriting Reductions and Commissions(2) | Proceeds to Issuer | |
Per safety | $1,000 | $ | $ |
Complete | $ | $ | $ |
(1) Sure fiduciary accounts might pay a purchase order worth of
no less than $992 per $1,000 principal quantity of securities.
(2) We or any agent (certainly one of which can be our affiliate) might
pay various reductions and commissions of as much as $Eight per $1,000 principal quantity of securities. CSSU or one other dealer or seller will forgo
some or all reductions and commissions with respect to the gross sales of securities into sure fiduciary accounts. For extra detailed data,
please see “Supplemental Plan of Distribution (Conflicts of Curiosity)” on this pricing complement.
Credit score Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (“CSSU”) is our affiliate.
For extra data, see “Supplemental Plan of Distribution (Conflicts of Curiosity)” on this pricing complement.
Credit score Suisse at present estimates the worth of every $1,000 principal
quantity of the securities on the Commerce Date will likely be between $940 and $990 (as decided by reference to our pricing fashions and the speed
we’re at present paying to borrow funds by means of issuance of the securities (our “inside funding fee”)). This vary of estimated
values displays phrases that aren’t but mounted. A single estimated worth reflecting remaining phrases will likely be decided on the Commerce Date. See
“Chosen Danger Concerns” on this pricing complement.
The securities aren’t deposit liabilities and aren’t insured or
assured by the Federal Deposit Insurance coverage Company or another governmental company of america, Switzerland or another
jurisdiction.
Credit score Suisse
September , 2022
Key Phrases
Issuer
Credit score Suisse AG (“Credit score Suisse”), appearing
by means of its London department
Underlyings
The securities are linked to the efficiency of the bottom
performing of the Underlyings set forth within the desk beneath. For extra data on the Underlyings, see “The Reference Indices—The
S&P Dow Jones Indices— The S&P U.S. Indices— The S&P 500® Index” and “The Reference
Indices—The FTSE Russell Indices— The Russell Indices—The Russell 2000® Index” within the accompanying
underlying complement. Every Underlying is recognized within the desk beneath, along with its Reuters ticker image, Preliminary Degree and anticipated
Buffer Degree (every stage to be decided on the Commerce Date):
Underlying | Ticker | Preliminary Degree | Buffer Degree |
S&P 500® Index | SPX <Index> | (Roughly 90% of Preliminary Degree) | |
Russell 2000® Index | RTY <Index> | (Roughly 90% of Preliminary Degree) |
Redemption Quantity
At maturity, for every
$1,000 principal quantity of securities, you’ll obtain a Redemption Quantity in money that can equal $1,000 multiplied by the sum of 1
plus the Safety Efficiency Issue, calculated as set forth beneath. Any fee on the securities is topic to our potential to pay our
obligations as they change into due.
Safety Efficiency Issue
The Safety Efficiency
Issue is expressed as a share and is calculated as follows:
· | If the Ultimate Degree of the Lowest Performing Underlying is the same as or higher than its Preliminary Degree, the Safety Efficiency Issue will equal the lesser of (i) the Most Return and (ii) an quantity calculated as follows: |
Upside
Participation Charge x Underlying Return of the Lowest Performing Underlying
If the Ultimate Degree of the Lowest Performing Underlying
is the same as or higher than its Preliminary Degree, the utmost Redemption Quantity is predicted to be no less than $1,330 per $1,000 principal quantity
(to be decided on the Commerce Date).
· | If the Ultimate Degree of the Lowest Performing Underlying is lower than its Preliminary Degree however equal to or higher than its Buffer Degree, the Safety Efficiency Issue will equal zero. |
· | If the Ultimate Degree of the Lowest Performing Underlying is lower than its Buffer Degree, the Safety Efficiency Issue will equal the sum of (i) the Underlying Return of the Lowest Performing Underlying plus (ii) the Buffer Quantity. |
If the Ultimate Degree of the Lowest Performing Underlying
is lower than its Buffer Degree, the Safety Efficiency Issue will likely be adverse and you’ll obtain lower than the principal quantity of
your securities at maturity. You possibly can lose as much as $900 per $1,000 principal quantity.
Lowest Performing Underlying
The Underlying with the
lowest Underlying Return.
Underlying Return
For every Underlying, an quantity calculated as follows:
Ultimate Degree – Preliminary Degree
Preliminary Degree
The Underlying Return for any Underlying will likely be adverse
if its Ultimate Degree is lower than its Preliminary Degree.
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Most Return
Anticipated to be no less than 33% (to be decided on the Commerce
Date).
Upside Participation
Charge
Anticipated to be 150%
(to be decided on the Commerce Date)
Buffer Quantity
Anticipated to be 10% (to be decided on the Commerce Date).
Preliminary Degree
For every Underlying,
the closing stage of such Underlying on the Commerce Date. Within the occasion that the closing stage for any Underlying isn’t out there on the
Commerce Date, the Preliminary Degree for such Underlying will likely be decided on the instantly following buying and selling day on which a closing stage
is on the market.
Ultimate Degree
For every Underlying,
the closing stage of such Underlying on the Valuation Date.
Commerce Date | Anticipated to be September 30, 2022 | |
Settlement Date | Anticipated to be October 5, 2022 | |
Valuation Date | April 2, 2024 | Topic to postponement as set forth in any accompanying product complement beneath “Description of the Securities—Postponement of calculation dates.” |
Maturity Date | April 5, 2024 | Topic to postponement as set forth in any accompanying product complement beneath “Description of the Securities—Postponement of calculation dates.” If the Maturity Date isn’t a enterprise day, the Redemption Quantity will likely be payable on the primary following enterprise day, until that enterprise day falls within the subsequent calendar month, by which case fee will likely be made on the primary previous enterprise day. |
Occasions of Default
With respect to those
securities, the primary bullet of the primary sentence of “Description of Debt Securities—Occasions of Default” within the accompanying
prospectus is amended to learn in its entirety as follows:
· | a default in fee of the principal or any premium on any debt safety of that collection when due, and such default continues for 30 days; |
CUSIP
22553QK63
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Extra Phrases Particular to the Securities
You need to learn this pricing complement along with the
underlying complement dated June 18, 2020, the product complement dated June 18, 2020, the prospectus complement dated June 18, 2020 and
the prospectus dated June 18, 2020, referring to our Medium-Time period Notes of which these securities are a component. You could entry these paperwork
on the SEC web site at www.sec.gov as follows (or if such deal with has modified, by reviewing our filings for the related date on the SEC
web site):
• Underlying Complement dated June 18, 2020:
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/information/1053092/000095010320011950/dp130454_424b2-eus.htm
• Product Complement No. I-B
dated June 18, 2020:
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/information/1053092/000095010320011955/dp130588_424b2-ps1b.htm
• Prospectus Complement and Prospectus dated June
18, 2020:
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/information/1053092/000110465920074474/tm2019510-8_424b2.htm
Within the occasion the phrases of the securities described on this
pricing complement differ from, or are inconsistent with, the phrases described within the underlying complement, any product complement, the
prospectus complement or prospectus, the phrases described on this pricing complement will management.
Our Central Index Key, or CIK, on the SEC web site is 1053092.
As used on this pricing complement, “we,” “us,” or “our” refers to Credit score Suisse.
This pricing complement, along with the paperwork listed
above, comprises the phrases of the securities and supersedes all different prior or contemporaneous oral statements in addition to another written
supplies together with preliminary or indicative pricing phrases, truth sheets, correspondence, commerce concepts, constructions for implementation,
pattern constructions, brochures or different academic supplies of ours. We might, with out the consent of the registered holder of the securities
and the proprietor of any helpful curiosity within the securities, amend the securities to adapt to its phrases as set forth on this pricing
complement and the paperwork listed above, and the trustee is permitted to enter into any such modification with none such consent. You
ought to rigorously take into account, amongst different issues, the issues set forth in “Chosen Danger Concerns” on this pricing complement
and “Danger Components” in any accompanying product complement, “Overseas Forex Dangers” within the accompanying prospectus,
and any danger components we describe within the mixed Annual Report on Kind 20-F of Credit score Suisse Group AG and us integrated by reference
therein, and any extra danger components we describe in future filings we make with the SEC beneath the Securities Trade Act of 1934,
as amended, because the securities contain dangers not related to standard debt securities. You need to seek the advice of your funding, authorized,
tax, accounting and different advisors earlier than deciding to put money into the securities.
You could revoke your supply to buy the securities
at any time previous to the time at which we settle for such supply on the date the securities are priced. We reserve the precise to vary the
phrases of, or reject any supply to buy the securities previous to their issuance. Within the occasion of any adjustments to the phrases of the securities,
we’ll notify you and you can be requested to just accept such adjustments in connection along with your buy. You might also select to reject such adjustments
by which case we might reject your supply to buy.
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Hypothetical Redemption Quantities at
Maturity
The desk and examples beneath make the next assumptions
and illustrate hypothetical Redemption Quantities payable at maturity on a $1,000 funding within the securities for a hypothetical vary of
efficiency of the Lowest Performing Underlying. The precise Upside Participation Charge, Most Return, Buffer Ranges and Buffer Quantity
will likely be decided on the Commerce Date. The hypothetical Redemption Quantities set forth beneath are for illustrative functions solely. The precise
Redemption Quantity relevant to a purchaser of the securities will likely be primarily based on the Ultimate Degree of the Lowest Performing Underlying. It
isn’t doable to foretell whether or not or by how a lot the Ultimate Degree of the Lowest Performing Underlying will likely be lower than its Buffer Degree.
You need to take into account rigorously whether or not the securities are appropriate to your funding targets. Any fee on the securities is topic to
our potential to pay our obligations as they change into due. The numbers beneath have been rounded for ease of study.
Principal Quantity | $1,000 per safety |
Most Return | 33% |
Buffer Degree | For every Underlying, 90% of its Preliminary Degree |
Buffer Quantity | 10% |
Upside Participation Charge | 150% |
TABLE: Hypothetical Redemption Quantities |
Underlying Return of the Lowest Performing Underlying | Safety Efficiency Issue |
Redemption Quantity per $1,000 Principal Quantity of Securities |
100% | 33% | $1,330 |
90% | 33% | $1,330 |
80% | 33% | $1,330 |
70% | 33% | $1,330 |
60% | 33% | $1,330 |
50% | 33% | $1,330 |
40% | 33% | $1,330 |
30% | 33% | $1,330 |
22% | 33% | $1,330 |
20% | 30% | $1,300 |
10% | 15% | $1,150 |
5% | 7.50% | $1,075 |
0% | 0% | $1,000 |
−5% | 0% | $1,000 |
−10% | 0% | $1,000 |
−11% | −1% | $990 |
−20% | −10% | $900 |
−30% | −20% | $800 |
−40% | −30% | $700 |
−50% | −40% | $600 |
−60% | −50% | $500 |
−70% | −60% | $400 |
−80% | −70% | $300 |
−90% | −80% | $200 |
−100% | −90% | $100 |
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Examples
The next examples
illustrate how the Redemption Quantity is calculated.
1. | The Lowest Performing Underlying will increase by 70% from its Preliminary Degree to its Ultimate Degree. |
Underlying | Ultimate Degree |
Underlying A | 170% of Preliminary Degree |
Underlying B | 180% of Preliminary Degree |
As a result of the Ultimate Degree of the Lowest Performing Underlying
is the same as or higher than its Preliminary Degree, the Redemption Quantity is decided as follows:
Safety Efficiency Issue | = the lesser of (i) Most Return and (ii) Upside Participation Charge × Underlying Return of the Lowest Performing Underlying |
= the lesser of (i) 33% and (ii) 150% x 70% | |
= the lesser of (i) 33% and (ii) 105% | |
= 33% | |
Redemption Quantity | = $1,000 × (1 + Safety Efficiency Issue) |
= $1,000 × 1.33 | |
= $1,330 |
As a result of the Ultimate Degree of the Lowest Performing Underlying
is the same as or higher than its Preliminary Degree, the Safety Efficiency Issue is the same as the Underlying Return of the Lowest Performing
Underlying instances the Upside Participation Charge, topic to the Most Return. Whatever the appreciation of any Underlying, the Safety
Efficiency Issue won’t exceed the Most Return.
2. | The Lowest Performing Underlying will increase by 5% from its Preliminary Degree to its Ultimate Degree. |
Underlying | Ultimate Degree |
Underlying A | 105% of Preliminary Degree |
Underlying B | 125% of Preliminary Degree |
As a result of
the Ultimate Degree of the Lowest Performing Underlying is the same as or higher than its Preliminary Degree, the Redemption Quantity is decided
as follows:
Safety Efficiency Issue | = the lesser of (i) Most Return and (ii) Upside Participation Charge × Underlying Return of the Lowest Performing Underlying |
= the lesser of (i) 33% and (ii) 150% x 5% | |
= the lesser of (i) 33% and (ii) 7.50% | |
= 7.50% | |
Redemption Quantity | = $1,000 × (1 + Safety Efficiency Issue) |
= $1,000 × 1.075 | |
= $1,075 |
As a result of the Ultimate Degree
of the Lowest Performing Underlying is the same as or higher than its Preliminary Degree, the Safety Efficiency Issue is the same as the Underlying
Return of the Lowest Performing Underlying instances the Upside Participation Charge, topic to the Most Return.
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3. | The Lowest Performing Underlying decreases by 10% from its Preliminary Degree to its Ultimate Degree. |
Underlying | Ultimate Degree |
Underlying A | 90% of Preliminary Degree |
Underlying B | 110% of Preliminary Degree |
As a result of the Ultimate Degree
of the Lowest Performing Underlying is lower than its Preliminary Degree however equal to or higher than its Buffer Degree, the Redemption Quantity
is decided as follows:
Safety Efficiency Issue | = 0% |
Redemption Quantity | = $1,000 × (1 + Safety Efficiency Issue) |
= $1,000 × 1 | |
= $1,000 |
As a result of the Ultimate Degree
of the Lowest Performing Underlying is lower than its Preliminary Degree however equal to or higher than its Buffer Degree, the Safety Efficiency
Issue is the same as zero.
4. | The Lowest Performing Underlying decreases by 60% from its Preliminary Degree to its Ultimate Degree. |
Underlying | Ultimate Degree |
Underlying A | 40% of Preliminary Degree |
Underlying B | 110% of Preliminary Degree |
As a result of
the Ultimate Degree of the Lowest Performing Underlying is lower than its Buffer Degree, the Redemption Quantity is decided as follows:
Safety Efficiency Issue | = Underlying Return of the Lowest Performing Underlying + Buffer Quantity |
= −60% + 10% | |
= −50% | |
Redemption Quantity | = $1,000 × (1 + Safety Efficiency Issue) |
= $1,000 × 0.50 | |
= $500 |
As a result of
the Ultimate Degree of the Lowest Performing Underlying is lower than its Buffer Degree, you can be uncovered to any depreciation within the Lowest
Performing Underlying from its Preliminary Degree to its Ultimate Degree past its Buffer Degree.
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Chosen Danger Concerns
An funding within the
securities includes important dangers. This part describes materials dangers referring to an funding within the securities. These dangers
are defined in additional element within the “Danger Components” part of any accompanying product complement.
Dangers Referring to the Securities Typically
YOUR INVESTMENT IN THE SECURITIES MAY RESULT IN A LOSS
If the Ultimate Degree of the Lowest Performing Underlying is lower than its Buffer Degree, you’ll lose 1% of your principal for every
1% decline from its Preliminary Degree to its Ultimate Degree past its Buffer Degree. You possibly can lose as much as $900 per $1,000 principal quantity of
securities. Any fee on the securities is topic to our potential to pay our obligations as they change into due.
THE SECURITIES ARE SUBJECT TO THE CREDIT RISK OF CREDIT
SUISSE
Buyers are depending on our potential to pay all quantities
due on the securities and, subsequently, if we had been to default on our obligations, you might not obtain any quantities owed to you beneath the
securities. As well as, any decline in our credit score rankings, any antagonistic adjustments available in the market’s view of our creditworthiness or
any enhance in our credit score spreads is prone to adversely have an effect on the worth of the securities previous to maturity.
REGARDLESS OF THE AMOUNT OF ANY PAYMENT YOU RECEIVE
ON THE SECURITIES, YOUR ACTUAL YIELD MAY BE DIFFERENT IN REAL VALUE TERMS
Inflation might trigger the actual worth of any fee you obtain
on the securities to be much less at maturity than it’s on the time you make investments. An funding within the securities additionally represents a forgone
alternative to put money into another asset that generates the next actual return. You need to rigorously take into account whether or not an funding
that will lead to a return that’s decrease than the return on different investments is acceptable for you.
THE SECURITIES DO NOT PAY INTEREST
We won’t pay curiosity on the securities. You could obtain
much less at maturity than you could possibly have earned on abnormal interest-bearing debt securities with comparable maturities, together with different of our
debt securities, because the Redemption Quantity relies on the efficiency of the Lowest Performing Underlying. As a result of the Redemption Quantity
could also be lower than the quantity initially invested within the securities, the return on the securities (the efficient yield to maturity) might
be adverse. Even whether it is optimistic, the return payable on every safety might not be sufficient to compensate you for any loss in worth due
to inflation and different components referring to the worth of cash over time.
LIMITED APPRECIATION POTENTIAL
If the Ultimate Degree of the Lowest Performing Underlying
is bigger than its Preliminary Degree, for every $1,000 principal quantity of securities, you’ll obtain at maturity $1,000 multiplied by the
sum of 1 plus the Safety Efficiency Issue, topic to the Most Return. The Safety Efficiency Issue won’t exceed the Most
Return, whatever the appreciation within the stage of any Underlying, which can be important. Accordingly, the utmost Redemption Quantity
of the securities for every $1,000 principal quantity of securities is $1,000 multiplied by the sum of 1 plus the Most Return. Any fee
on the securities is topic to our potential to pay our obligations as they change into due.
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THE PROBABILITY THAT THE FINAL LEVEL OF THE LOWEST
PERFORMING UNDERLYING WILL BE LESS THAN ITS BUFFER LEVEL WILL DEPEND ON THE VOLATILITY OF SUCH UNDERLYING
“Volatility”
refers back to the frequency and magnitude of adjustments within the stage of an Underlying. The higher the anticipated volatility with respect to an
Underlying on the Commerce Date, the upper the expectation as of the Commerce Date that the Ultimate Degree of such Underlying may very well be lower than
its Buffer Degree, indicating the next anticipated danger of loss on the securities. The phrases of the securities are set, partly, primarily based on
expectations in regards to the volatility of the Underlyings as of the Commerce Date. The volatility of any Underlying can change considerably over
the time period of the securities. The extent of any Underlying may fall sharply, which may lead to a big lack of principal. You
needs to be keen to just accept the draw back market danger of the Underlyings and the potential to lose a big quantity of your principal
at maturity.
THE U.S. FEDERAL TAX CONSEQUENCES OF AN INVESTMENT
IN THE SECURITIES ARE UNCLEAR
There isn’t a direct authorized
authority relating to the correct U.S. federal tax therapy of the securities, and we don’t plan to request a ruling from the Inner
Income Service (the “IRS”). Consequently, important elements of the tax therapy of the securities are unsure, and the
IRS or a court docket won’t agree with the therapy of the securities as pay as you go monetary contracts which might be handled as “open transactions.”
If the IRS had been profitable in asserting another therapy of the securities, the tax penalties of the possession and disposition
of the securities, together with the timing and character of earnings acknowledged by U.S. traders and the withholding tax penalties to non-U.S.
traders, is likely to be materially and adversely affected. Furthermore, future laws, Treasury rules or IRS steering may adversely
have an effect on the U.S. federal tax therapy of the securities, presumably retroactively.
Dangers Referring to the Underlyings
YOU WILL BE SUBJECT TO RISKS RELATING TO THE RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN THE UNDERLYINGS
The securities are linked
to the person efficiency of every Underlying. As such, the securities will carry out poorly if solely one of many Underlyings performs
poorly. For instance, if one Underlying appreciates from its Preliminary Degree to its Ultimate Degree, however the Ultimate Degree of the Lowest Performing
Underlying is lower than its Buffer Degree, you can be uncovered to the depreciation of the Lowest Performing Underlying and you’ll not
profit from the efficiency of another Underlying. Every extra Underlying to which the securities are linked will increase the danger
that the securities will carry out poorly. By investing within the securities, you assume the danger that the Ultimate Degree of no less than one of many
Underlyings will likely be lower than its Buffer Degree, whatever the efficiency of another Underlying.
It’s unimaginable to foretell
the connection between the Underlyings. If the performances of the Underlyings exhibit no relationship to one another, it’s extra probably
that one of many Underlyings will trigger the securities to carry out poorly. Nonetheless, if the performances of the fairness securities included
in every Underlying are associated such that the performances of the Underlyings are correlated, then there may be much less probability that just one
Underlying will trigger the securities to carry out poorly. Moreover, to the extent that every Underlying represents a unique market
section or market sector, the danger of 1 Underlying performing poorly is bigger. In consequence, you aren’t solely taking market danger on
every Underlying, you’re additionally taking a danger referring to the connection among the many Underlyings.
THE SECURITIES ARE LINKED TO THE RUSSELL 2000®
INDEX AND ARE SUBJECT TO THE RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH SMALL-CAPITALIZATION COMPANIES
The Russell 2000®
Index consists of fairness securities issued by corporations with comparatively small market capitalization. These fairness securities typically
have higher inventory worth volatility, decrease buying and selling quantity and fewer liquidity than the fairness securities of large-capitalization corporations,
and are extra weak to antagonistic enterprise and financial developments than these of large-capitalization corporations. As well as, small-capitalization
corporations are sometimes much less established and fewer steady financially than large-capitalization corporations. These corporations might rely upon
a small variety of key personnel, making them extra weak to lack of personnel. Such corporations are inclined to have smaller revenues, much less
various product traces, smaller shares of their services or products markets, fewer monetary sources and fewer aggressive strengths than
large-capitalization corporations and are extra prone to antagonistic developments associated to their merchandise. Due to this fact, the Russell 2000®
Index could also be extra risky than it will be if it had been composed of fairness securities issued by large-capitalization corporations.
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NO OWNERSHIP RIGHTS RELATING TO THE UNDERLYINGS
Your return on the securities
won’t replicate the return you’ll understand when you truly owned the fairness securities that comprise the Underlyings. The return on
your funding isn’t the identical as the entire return primarily based on the acquisition of the fairness securities included within the Underlyings.
NO VOTING RIGHTS OR DIVIDEND PAYMENTS
As a holder of the
securities, you’ll not have voting rights or rights to obtain money dividends or different distributions or different rights with respect to
the fairness securities included within the Underlyings.
GOVERNMENT REGULATORY ACTION, INCLUDING LEGISLATIVE
ACTS AND EXECUTIVE ORDERS, COULD RESULT IN MATERIAL CHANGES TO THE UNDERLYINGS AND COULD NEGATIVELY AFFECT YOUR RETURN ON THE SECURITIES
Authorities regulatory
motion, together with legislative acts and govt orders, may materially have an effect on the Underlyings. For instance, in response to latest govt
orders, shares of corporations which might be decided to be linked to the Individuals’s Republic of China navy, intelligence and safety
equipment could also be delisted from a U.S. change, eliminated as a element in indices or change traded funds, or transactions in, or holdings
of, securities with publicity to such shares might in any other case change into prohibited beneath U.S. legislation. If authorities regulatory motion ends in
such penalties, there could also be a fabric and adverse impact on the securities.
Dangers Referring to the Issuer
CREDIT SUISSE IS SUBJECT TO SWISS REGULATION
As a Swiss financial institution, Credit score
Suisse is topic to regulation by governmental companies, supervisory authorities and self-regulatory organizations in Switzerland. Such
regulation is more and more extra intensive and complicated and topics Credit score Suisse to dangers. For instance, pursuant to Swiss banking legal guidelines,
the Swiss Monetary Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) might open decision proceedings if there are justified considerations that Credit score Suisse
is over-indebted, has severe liquidity issues or now not fulfills capital adequacy necessities. FINMA has broad powers and discretion
within the case of decision proceedings, which embrace the ability to transform debt devices and different liabilities of Credit score Suisse into
fairness and/or cancel such liabilities in complete or partly. If a number of of those measures had been imposed, such measures might adversely
have an effect on the phrases and market worth of the securities and/or the flexibility of Credit score Suisse to make funds thereunder and you might not obtain
any quantities owed to you beneath the securities.
Dangers Referring to Conflicts of Curiosity
HEDGING AND TRADING ACTIVITY
We or any of our associates
might perform hedging actions associated to the securities, together with in devices associated to the Underlyings. We or our associates
might also commerce devices associated to the Underlyings on occasion. Any of those hedging or buying and selling actions on or previous to the
Commerce Date and throughout the time period of the securities may adversely have an effect on our fee to you at maturity.
POTENTIAL CONFLICTS
We and our associates
play quite a lot of roles in reference to the issuance of the securities, together with appearing as calculation agent and as agent of the issuer
for the providing of the securities, hedging our obligations beneath the securities and figuring out their estimated worth. In performing
these duties, the financial pursuits of us and our associates are probably antagonistic to your pursuits as an investor within the securities.
Additional, hedging actions might adversely have an effect on any fee on or the worth of the securities. Any revenue in reference to such hedging
actions will likely be along with another compensation that we and our associates obtain for the sale of the securities, which creates
a further incentive to promote the securities to you.
Dangers Referring to the Estimated Worth and Secondary
Market Costs of the Securities
UNPREDICTABLE ECONOMIC AND MARKET FACTORS WILL AFFECT
THE VALUE OF THE SECURITIES
The payout on the securities
may be replicated utilizing a mix of the parts described in “The estimated worth of the securities on the Commerce Date might
be lower than the Worth to Public.” Due to this fact, in
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addition to the degrees
of the Underlyings, the phrases of the securities at issuance and the worth of the securities previous to maturity could also be influenced by components
that impression the worth of mounted earnings securities and choices on the whole, resembling:
· | the anticipated and precise volatility of the Underlyings; |
· | the anticipated and precise correlation, if any, between the Underlyings; |
· | the time to maturity of the securities; |
· | the dividend fee on the fairness securities included within the Underlyings; |
· | curiosity and yield charges available in the market usually; |
· | traders’ expectations with respect to the speed of inflation; |
· | geopolitical situations and financial, monetary, political, regulatory, judicial or different occasions that have an effect on the fairness securities included within the Underlyings or markets usually and which can have an effect on the degrees of the Underlyings; and |
· | our creditworthiness, together with precise or anticipated downgrades in our credit score rankings. |
Some or all of those
components might affect the value that you’ll obtain when you select to promote your securities previous to maturity. The impression of any of the
components set forth above might improve or offset some or all of any change ensuing from one other issue or components.
THE ESTIMATED VALUE OF THE SECURITIES ON THE TRADE
DATE MAY BE LESS THAN THE PRICE TO PUBLIC
The preliminary estimated
worth of your securities on the Commerce Date (as decided by reference to our pricing fashions and our inside funding fee) could also be considerably
lower than the unique Worth to Public. The Worth to Public of the securities consists of any reductions or commissions in addition to transaction
prices resembling bills incurred to create, doc and market the securities and the price of hedging our dangers as issuer of the securities
by means of a number of of our associates (which features a projected revenue). These prices will likely be successfully borne by you as an investor
within the securities. These quantities will likely be retained by Credit score Suisse or our associates in reference to our structuring and providing of
the securities (besides to the extent reductions or commissions are reallowed to different broker-dealers or any prices are paid to 3rd events).
On the Commerce Date, we
worth the parts of the securities in accordance with our pricing fashions. These embrace a hard and fast earnings element valued utilizing our
inside funding fee, and particular person choice parts valued utilizing proprietary pricing fashions depending on inputs resembling volatility,
correlation, dividend charges, rates of interest and different components, together with assumptions about future market occasions and/or environments. These
inputs could also be market-observable or could also be primarily based on assumptions made by us in our discretionary judgment. As such, the payout on the securities
may be replicated utilizing a mix of those parts and the worth of those parts, as decided by us utilizing our pricing fashions,
will impression the phrases of the securities at issuance. Our choice valuation fashions are proprietary. Our pricing fashions consider
components resembling rates of interest, volatility and time to maturity of the securities, they usually rely partly on sure assumptions about
future occasions, which can show to be incorrect.
As a result of Credit score Suisse’s
pricing fashions might differ from different issuers’ valuation fashions, and since funding charges taken under consideration by different issuers might
differ materially from the charges utilized by Credit score Suisse (even amongst issuers with comparable creditworthiness), our estimated worth at any time
might not be corresponding to estimated values of comparable securities of different issuers.
EFFECT OF INTEREST RATE USED IN STRUCTURING THE SECURITIES
The interior funding
fee we use in structuring notes resembling these securities is often decrease than the rate of interest that’s mirrored within the yield on
our standard debt securities of comparable maturity within the secondary market (our “secondary market credit score spreads”). If on
the Commerce Date our inside funding fee is decrease than our secondary market credit score spreads, we anticipate that the financial phrases of the securities
will usually be much less favorable to you than they might have been if our secondary market credit score unfold had been utilized in structuring the
securities. We may even use our inside funding fee to find out the value of the securities if we publish a bid to repurchase your securities
in secondary market transactions. See “—Secondary Market Costs” beneath.
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SECONDARY MARKET PRICES
If Credit score Suisse (or
an affiliate) bids in your securities in secondary market transactions, which we aren’t obligated to do, the secondary market worth
(and the worth used for account statements or in any other case) could also be larger or decrease than the Worth to Public and the estimated worth of the
securities on the Commerce Date. The estimated worth of the securities on the duvet of this pricing complement doesn’t symbolize a minimal
worth at which we might be keen to purchase the securities within the secondary market (if any exists) at any time. The secondary market worth
of your securities at any time can’t be predicted and can replicate the then-current estimated worth decided by reference to our pricing
fashions, the associated inputs and different components, together with our inside funding fee, customary bid and ask spreads and different transaction
prices, adjustments in market situations and deterioration or enchancment in our creditworthiness. In circumstances the place our inside funding
fee is larger than our secondary market credit score spreads, our secondary market bid in your securities may very well be much less favorable than what
different sellers may bid as a result of, assuming all else equal, we use the upper inside funding fee to cost the securities and different sellers
may use the decrease secondary market credit score unfold to cost them. Moreover, assuming no change in market situations from the Commerce
Date, the secondary market worth of your securities will likely be decrease than the Worth to Public as a result of it won’t embrace any reductions or
commissions and hedging and different transaction prices. If you happen to promote your securities to a seller in a secondary market transaction, the seller
might impose a further low cost or fee, and because of this the value you obtain in your securities could also be decrease than the value
at which we might repurchase the securities from such seller.
We (or an affiliate)
might initially publish a bid to repurchase the securities from you at a worth that can exceed the then-current estimated worth of the securities.
That larger worth displays our projected revenue and prices, which can embrace reductions and commissions that had been included within the Worth
to Public, and that larger worth might also be initially used for account statements or in any other case. We (or our affiliate) might supply to pay
this larger worth, in your profit, however the quantity of any extra over the then-current estimated worth will likely be short-term and is predicted
to say no over a interval of roughly three months.
The securities aren’t
designed to be short-term buying and selling devices and any sale previous to maturity may lead to a considerable loss to you. You have to be
keen and in a position to maintain your securities to maturity.
LACK OF LIQUIDITY
The securities won’t
be listed on any securities change. Credit score Suisse (or its associates) intends to supply to buy the securities within the secondary market
however isn’t required to take action. Even when there’s a secondary market, it could not present sufficient liquidity to will let you commerce or promote the
securities once you want to take action. As a result of different sellers aren’t prone to make a secondary marketplace for the securities, the value at which
you might be able to commerce your securities is prone to rely upon the value, if any, at which Credit score Suisse (or its associates) is keen
to purchase the securities. If you must promote your securities previous to maturity, you might not be in a position to take action or you’ll have to promote them
at a considerable loss.
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Supplemental Use of Proceeds and Hedging
We intend to make use of the proceeds of this providing for our
common company functions, which can embrace the refinancing of current debt exterior Switzerland. Some or the entire proceeds we obtain
from the sale of the securities could also be utilized in reference to hedging our obligations beneath the securities by means of a number of of our
associates. Such hedging or buying and selling actions on or previous to the Commerce Date and throughout the time period of the securities (together with on any calculation
date, as outlined in any accompanying product complement) may adversely have an effect on the worth of the Underlyings and, because of this, may lower
the quantity you might obtain on the securities at maturity. For extra data, see “Supplemental Use of Proceeds and Hedging”
in any accompanying product complement.
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Historic Data
The next graphs set forth the historic efficiency
of the Underlyings primarily based on the closing ranges of such Underlyings from January 3, 2017 by means of August 30, 2022. We obtained the historic
data beneath from Bloomberg, with out unbiased verification. The closing ranges reported by Bloomberg might not be the identical because the
closing ranges derived from the relevant Reuters web page.
You shouldn’t take the historic ranges of the Underlyings
as a sign of future efficiency of the Underlyings or the securities. Any historic development within the ranges of the Underlyings throughout
any interval set forth beneath isn’t a sign that the degrees of the Underlyings are roughly prone to enhance or lower at
any time over the time period of the securities.
For extra data on the S&P 500®
Index and the Russell 2000® Index, see “The Reference Indices—The S&P Dow Jones Indices— The S&P
U.S. Indices—The S&P 500® Index” and “The Reference Indices—The FTSE Russell Indices—
The Russell Indices—The Russell 2000® Index” within the accompanying underlying complement.
The closing stage of the S&P 500® Index on August 30, 2022 was 3986.16. |
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The closing stage of the Russell 2000® Index on August 30, 2022 was 1855.594. |
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United States Federal Tax Concerns
This dialogue dietary supplements and, to the extent inconsistent
therewith, supersedes the dialogue within the accompanying product complement beneath “United States Federal Tax Concerns.”
There are not any statutory, judicial or administrative authorities
that deal with the U.S. federal earnings tax therapy of the securities or devices which might be much like the securities. Within the opinion
of our counsel, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, a safety needs to be handled as a pay as you go monetary contract that’s an “open transaction”
for U.S. federal earnings tax functions. Nonetheless, there may be uncertainty relating to this therapy. Furthermore, our counsel’s opinion is
primarily based on market situations as of the date of this preliminary pricing complement and is topic to affirmation on the Commerce Date.
Assuming this therapy of the securities is revered
and topic to the dialogue in “United States Federal Tax Concerns” within the accompanying product complement, the next
U.S. federal earnings tax penalties ought to end result:
· | You shouldn’t acknowledge taxable earnings over the time period of the securities previous to maturity, aside from pursuant to a sale or different disposition. |
· | Upon a sale or different disposition (together with retirement) of a safety, you need to acknowledge capital achieve or loss equal to the distinction between the quantity realized and your tax foundation within the safety. Such achieve or loss needs to be long-term capital achieve or loss when you held the safety for multiple 12 months. |
We don’t plan to request a ruling from the IRS relating to
the therapy of the securities, and the IRS or a court docket won’t agree with the therapy described herein. Specifically, the IRS may
deal with the securities as contingent fee debt devices, by which case the tax penalties of possession and disposition of the securities,
together with the timing and character of earnings acknowledged, may very well be materially and adversely affected. Furthermore, the U.S. Treasury Division
and the IRS have requested feedback on numerous points relating to the U.S. federal earnings tax therapy of “pay as you go ahead contracts”
and comparable monetary devices and have indicated that such transactions often is the topic of future rules or different steering.
As well as, members of Congress have proposed legislative adjustments to the tax therapy of spinoff contracts. Any laws, Treasury
rules or different steering promulgated after consideration of those points may materially and adversely have an effect on the tax penalties
of an funding within the securities, presumably with retroactive impact. You need to seek the advice of your tax advisor relating to doable different
tax remedies of the securities and potential adjustments in relevant legislation.
Non-U.S. Holders
Topic to the discussions within the subsequent paragraph and in
“United States Federal Tax Concerns—Tax Penalties to Non-U.S. Holders” and “United States Federal Tax
Concerns—FATCA” within the accompanying product complement, in case you are a Non-U.S. Holder (as outlined within the accompanying
product complement) of the securities, you usually shouldn’t be topic to U.S. federal withholding or earnings tax in respect of any
quantity paid to you with respect to the securities, offered that (i) earnings in respect of the securities isn’t successfully related
along with your conduct of a commerce or enterprise in america, and (ii) you adjust to the relevant certification necessities.
As mentioned beneath “United States Federal Tax Concerns—Tax
Penalties to Non-U.S. Holders—Dividend Equivalents beneath Part 871(m) of the Code” within the accompanying product complement,
Part 871(m) of the Inner Income Code usually imposes a 30% withholding tax on “dividend equivalents” paid or deemed
paid to Non-U.S. Holders with respect to sure monetary devices linked to U.S. equities or indices that embrace U.S. equities.
Treasury rules beneath Part 871(m), as modified by an IRS discover, exclude from their scope monetary devices issued previous to
January 1, 2025 that wouldn’t have a “delta” of 1 with respect to any U.S. fairness. Primarily based on the phrases of the securities and
representations offered by us as of the date of this preliminary pricing complement, our counsel is of the opinion that the securities
shouldn’t be handled as transactions which have a “delta” of 1 throughout the that means of the rules with respect to any
U.S. fairness and, subsequently, shouldn’t be topic to withholding tax beneath Part 871(m). Nonetheless, the ultimate willpower relating to
the therapy of the securities beneath
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Part 871(m) will likely be made as of the Commerce Date for the
securities and it’s doable that the securities will likely be topic to withholding tax beneath Part 871(m) primarily based on circumstances on that
date.
A willpower that the securities aren’t topic to
Part 871(m) isn’t binding on the IRS, and the IRS might disagree with this willpower. Furthermore, Part 871(m) is advanced and its
utility might rely in your explicit circumstances, together with your different transactions. You need to seek the advice of your tax advisor relating to
the potential utility of Part 871(m) to the securities.
If withholding tax applies to the securities, we won’t
be required to pay any extra quantities with respect to quantities withheld.
You need to learn the part entitled “United States
Federal Tax Concerns” within the accompanying product complement. The previous dialogue, when learn together with that
part, constitutes the complete opinion of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP relating to the fabric U.S. federal tax penalties of proudly owning
and disposing of the securities.
You also needs to seek the advice of your tax advisor relating to all
elements of the U.S. federal earnings and property tax penalties of an funding within the securities and any tax penalties arising beneath
the legal guidelines of any state, native or non-U.S. taxing jurisdiction.
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Supplemental Plan of Distribution
(Conflicts of Curiosity)
Below the phrases and topic to the situations contained
in a distribution settlement dated Could 7, 2007, as amended, which we discuss with because the distribution settlement, now we have agreed to promote the
securities to CSSU. We might also comply with promote the securities to different brokers which might be events to the distribution settlement. We refer
to CSSU and different such brokers because the “Brokers.”
The distribution settlement supplies that the Brokers are
obligated to buy the entire securities if any are bought.
The Brokers might supply the securities on the providing worth
set forth on the duvet web page of this pricing complement and will obtain various reductions and commissions of as much as $Eight per $1,000 principal
quantity of securities. The Brokers might re-allow some or the entire low cost on the principal quantity per safety on gross sales of such securities
by different brokers or sellers. CSSU or one other dealer or seller will forgo some or all reductions and commissions with respect to the gross sales
of securities into sure fiduciary accounts. If the entire securities aren’t bought on the preliminary providing worth, the Brokers might change
the general public providing worth and different promoting phrases.
An affiliate of Credit score Suisse has paid or might pay within the
future a hard and fast quantity to broker-dealers in reference to the prices of implementing techniques to assist these securities.
We anticipate to ship the securities towards fee for
the securities on the Settlement Date indicated herein, which can be a date that’s higher than two enterprise days following the Commerce
Date. Below Rule 15c6-1 of the Securities Trade Act of 1934, as amended, trades within the secondary market usually are required to settle
in two enterprise days, until the events to a commerce expressly agree in any other case. Accordingly, if the Settlement Date is greater than two enterprise
days after the Commerce Date, purchasers who want to transact within the securities greater than two enterprise days previous to the Settlement Date
will likely be required to specify different settlement preparations to stop a failed settlement.
CSSU is our affiliate. In accordance with FINRA Rule 5121,
CSSU might not make gross sales on this providing to any of its discretionary accounts with out the prior written approval of the client. A portion
of the online proceeds from the sale of the securities will likely be utilized by CSSU or certainly one of its associates in reference to hedging our obligations
beneath the securities.
For additional data, please discuss with “Underwriting
(Conflicts of Curiosity)” in any accompanying product complement.
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