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Zurich - Credit Suisse Group said on Sunday it has paid around 100 million Swiss francs ($86.7m) in compensation to 2 000 clients who lost money in collapsed US investment bank Lehman Brothers.
Most of the beneficiaries received the money in the third quarter, said spokesperson Jan von der Mühl, confirming reports by the weeklies NZZ am Sonntag and Sonntagszeitung.
Only 11 clients declined to accept the money, Von der Mühl said.
Switzerland's second biggest bank compensated clients who had half or more of their investments with Lehman Brothers and whose total investments were less than 500 000 francs he said.
He declined to say how the level of compensation was worked out.
"We've looked at each case individually," he told The AP.
Lehman - once the fourth-biggest US investment bank - filed the biggest bankruptcy in US history in September.
- AP