Acting as a financial intermediary, specializing in providing services to third-party financial intermediaries, specifically the execution of stock exchange orders from end customers of third-party financial intermediaries in the securities trading business. Thus, it acts as a link between the custodian bank and the financial intermediary (financial service provider) providing end-customer business in the securities and derivatives sector. It provides these execution and order forwarding services in the brokerage of stock exchange orders in Switzerland, Europe, and North America, with a focus on Switzerland, Europe, and North America. These services are exclusively provided from Switzerland. The company does not engage in securities trading activities within the meaning of the Stock Exchange Act. It operates asset management business in cooperation with banks and brokers in Switzerland and abroad, as well as providing so-called ancillary securities services. The company specializes in serving institutional clients but can also serve medium-sized or smaller end customers in execution or asset management. The company may acquire participations and/or shares in similarly positioned companies, establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, acquire, encumber, sell, and manage real estate in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire or establish related companies in Switzerland and abroad or merge with them, acquire, manage, and sell license rights and intellectual property, as well as conduct financing transactions of any kind and provide guarantees and sureties for subsidiaries and third parties.