Writing with Punch and Precision

Adding emphasis in the right places of a sentence can impact the tone of your message and how it is received. Where would you move the underlined words in the sentence to make the sentence sound more resilient rather than negative?

Credit Suisse was able to maintain key banking relationships, despite a year filled with several corporate scandals around privacy and governance that brought heavy media criticism.

Move it to the middle$-$ "Despite a year filled with That brought heavy media criticism, Credit Suisse was able to maintain..."

Leave it as is $-$ at the very end

Move it to the beginning $-$ "Heavy media criticism was received in a year filled with. inspite of the events, Credit Suisse was able to maintain..."