Fabrizio Cerina

Fabrizio Cerina (born in Piacenza, Italy) is the chairman of international investment banking group Crédit des Alpes.

Career Cerina began his career by acquiring a 34% stake in Banque de Participations et de Placements, Geneva. In 1982 he acquired Attel Bank, in which he invested CHF1.5 million (US$1.53 million), eventually listing the holding company on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange in 1987 at a value of approximately CHF130 million (US$132.6 million).

In the 1990s Cerina was dubbed "a banker and a gentleman" by Swiss and international press when, as the controlling shareholder of Attel Bank, he voluntarily refunded clients out of his own pocket after a rogue trader caused losses amounting to CHF45 million (US$46 million). The trader stole money from clients, as well as dealing in unauthorized junk bonds and NASDAQ securities. of Brazilian broadband market-leader company GVT in 2009 — then the largest world's telecoms deal.