The company's purpose is to operate a bank and conduct all business activities related to banking in Switzerland and abroad. The bank's activities include, in particular: accepting funds in all bank-like forms, including savings deposits, granting secured and unsecured loans, credits, and advances, discounting and forfaiting bills of exchange, as well as arbitrage, currency, collection, and payment transactions, issuing guarantees, sureties, letters of credit, and documentary credits, buying and selling foreign currencies for its own account or on behalf of others, trading in securities of all kinds (including derivatives), precious metals, and coins, asset management, underwriting and placing public bonds and share issues, participating in syndicates, executing trust transactions, renting safe deposit boxes, issuing and redeeming checks, all activities related to the Collective Investment Schemes Act, establishing pension funds and managing their assets, founding and managing, for its own account or on behalf of others, financial, real estate, and trading companies of all kinds, in Switzerland and abroad. The company may acquire, sell, and mortgage real estate in Switzerland and abroad, as well as establish subsidiaries, branches, agencies, and representative offices.