Jan-Henrik Forster

Growth will be “in line with what we did in the last few years,” says the bank's group CEO.

CEO Tidjane Thiam, who joined a year ago, is shrinking the investment bank to free up capital for expanding Credit Suisse's wealth management business, cutting thousands of jobs in the process.

The bank suffers net income declines, while volatility causes a slump in trading across the firm.

The fourth-quarter was the "most challenging" for the firm in years, according to CEO Sergio Ermotti, who has been scaling back the investment bank to promote wealth management.