ZURICH: Switzerland's parliament on Thursday kicked off its probe into the government-orchestrated takeover of the stricken Credit Suisse bank by its larger rival UBS.

The parliamentary commission of inquiry aims to shed light on how Swiss authorities rapidly stitched together the merger of the wealthy Alpine country's two biggest banks over a weekend in March.

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