in 1996 credit suisse restructured as the credit suisse group with four divisions: credit suisse volksbank (later called credit suisse bank) for domestic banking, credit suisse private banking, credit suisse asset management and credit suisse first boston for corporate and investment banking. the restructure was expected to cost the company $800 million and result in 7,000 lost jobs, but save $560 million a year. while credit suisse first boston had been struggling, credit suisse's overall profits had grown 20 percent over the prior year, reaching $664 million. in 1999 japan's financial supervisory agency temporarily suspended the financial-products division's license to operate in japan for "window dressing," the practice of selling derivatives that are often used by bank clients to hide losses.