The company's purpose is to provide financial services, in particular to broker financial transactions and provide consulting services in the aforementioned field, as well as to trade in goods of all kinds. The company may establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire or merge with similar or related companies, and enter into any business and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or are directly or indirectly related to it. It may acquire, manage, encumber and sell real estate, intellectual property rights and licenses of all kinds, and grant guarantees and sureties for subsidiaries and third parties.