Revenue in private banking and wealth management was 3.32 billion francs, roughly in line with the comparable quarter a year earlier, when it had suffered a sharp drop.
Credit Suisse said it had trimmed its worldwide staff to 46,400 by the third quarter, down 4 percent from 48,400 a year earlier. Compensation and benefit costs for employees fell to 348 million francs, down 24 percent from a year earlier, while the bank spent less for bonuses.
The bank said it had cut costs by 3 billion francs out of a total 4.4 billion francs it had planned to cut and announced it would raise that target to 4.5 billion francs.
Credit Suisse also has continued to improve its capital cushion and lower exposure to risks, he said, in line with new international and Swiss banking rules.
Credit Suisse and Switzerland's biggest bank, UBS AG, are major financial institutions that are on the list of 29 "global systemically important banks" that are considered too economically important to be allowed to fail.