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The Pictet Group, known as Pictet, is a Swiss multinational private bank and financial services company founded in Switzerland. Headquartered in Geneva, it is one of the largest Swiss banks and primarily offers services in wealth management, asset management, and asset servicing, to private clients and institutions.
UBS Group AG [nb 1] is a multinational investment bank and financial services company founded and based in Switzerland.Headquartered simultaneously in Zürich and Basel, [9] it maintains a presence in all major financial centres as the largest Swiss banking institution and the largest private bank in the world.
It publishes a list of the World 1000 Largest Banks every July. [2] The financial data published by the July yearly issue of The Banker are much more extensive compared to the S&P Top 100 banks, but it is not a publication intended for the general public. The KfW bank is manually inserted due to its assets of c. 650 billion. [3]
Fifteen Swiss companies are included on Fortune's "Global 500" list (in 2011). As of 2018 the largest non-financial companies in terms of annual revenue were Glencore, Vitol and Trafigura, with Nestlé as the largest employer. The largest banks were UBS and Credit Suisse, and the largest insurance company was Zurich Insurance Group.
[40] [41] In 1993 Credit Suisse outbid UBS for a controlling stake in Switzerland's fifth largest bank, Swiss Volksbank in a $1.1 billion deal. [42] It also merged with Winterthur Group in 1997 for about $9 billion [43] and acquired the asset management division of Warburg, Pincus & Co. in 1999 for $650 million. [44]
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Barclays Bank (Suisse) SA, Geneva; Barclays Capital, Zurich Branch of Barclays Bank PLC, London; HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA, Geneva; IG Bank S.A., Geneva; Lloyds Bank plc, Londres, succursale de Genève, Geneva *Standard Chartered Bank (Switzerland) SA (No offices anymore in Switzerland)
In addition to wealth management, the bank also performs brokerage services, bond trading, and correspondent banking. J. Safra Sarasin is the sixth largest Swiss Bank. J. Safra Sarasin is represented worldwide in 26 locations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. The Group's head office is in Basel, Switzerland.