The purchase, sale, management, financing and administration of its own corporate participations in Switzerland and abroad; as well as the management and administration of the related income. The company may grant financing to third parties or companies in which it participates directly or indirectly, as well as to direct or indirect shareholders or to companies in which such shareholders participate directly or indirectly, directly or indirectly, through loans and/or other financing modalities. The company may, for its own commitments as well as for the commitments of the aforementioned persons, establish guarantees of any kind, including through pledges, assignments, trust transfers, guarantees of any kind or through compensatory obligations, both for consideration and gratuitously, even when such financing or guarantees are established in the exclusive interest of third parties or companies in which it participates directly or indirectly, or of direct or indirect shareholders or companies in which such shareholders participate directly or indirectly.