The company provides financial and business services as well as services in the field of information technology and related tasks and functions. The company may establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other domestic and foreign enterprises, acquire companies or merge with them, and enter into all transactions and conclude contracts that are suitable for promoting the purpose of the company or are directly or indirectly related thereto. It may acquire, manage, encumber, and dispose of participations, real estate, intellectual property rights, and licenses of all kinds. The company may grant direct or indirect financing to third parties or companies in which it is directly or indirectly involved, as well as to direct and indirect shareholders or companies in which such parties are directly or indirectly involved, either by way of loans and/or other financing, including within the framework of cash pooling agreements. The company may provide securities of any kind for its own liabilities or the liabilities of the aforementioned persons, including by way of pledges, assignments, fiduciary transfers, guarantees of any kind, or by way of compensation obligations, whether for consideration or not, even if such financing, securities, or guarantees are in the sole interest of third parties or companies in which it is directly or indirectly involved, or of direct or indirect shareholders or companies in which such parties are directly or indirectly involved.