ZURICH (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley is weighing the sale of its private bank in Switzerland which manages roughly 10 billion Swiss francs ($11.28 billion) in assets, a source close to the matter told Reuters.
The U.S. bank is looking at several options, one of which is an outright sale, the person said on Wednesday.
International banks including Standard Chartered
Morgan Stanley has made changes to how it has organized its private bank in Asia, for which Switzerland was originally intended as a platform to expand, according to the source.
The news was first reported by Swiss finance portal finews.ch on its website on Wednesday.
The Swiss business was not part of a deal last March in which Credit Suisse
(Reporting by Katharina Bart; editing by Jason Neely)
