The company's purpose is to provide services of all kinds to other group companies and third parties, in particular in the fields of software development and cryptographic procedures, as well as the structuring of financial instruments and related services. It can finance other companies. The company can participate in other companies, acquire, exploit, manage and sell business premises and intellectual property rights, establish subsidiaries and branches in Switzerland and abroad, and carry out all legal transactions that may be necessary or suitable to promote its purpose or the development of group companies. The company can grant direct or indirect financing to third parties, including companies in which it is directly or indirectly involved, its direct or indirect shareholders, and companies in which such parties are directly or indirectly involved, whether through loans or other financing, including within the framework of cash pooling agreements, and provide security of any kind for their liabilities, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind, whether against payment or not.