The company's purpose is to participate in industrial, commercial and financial enterprises in Switzerland and abroad, particularly in the fields of security, printing, cash handling as well as payment systems and related industries. The company may establish such enterprises itself or participate in existing ones, finance them and promote their development. The company may carry out all operations that, in the opinion of its management, are conducive to its purpose or useful for the placement of its funds. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad. The company may directly or indirectly provide funds to its direct or indirect subsidiaries and to third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, provide any type of security for its own obligations and the obligations of other companies (including direct or indirect shareholders of the company or companies in which these shareholders are direct or indirect shareholders), including pledges or fiduciary transfers or fiduciary assignments of the company's assets, or provide guarantees, contract securities, or secure or guarantee in any other way the obligations of the company or these other companies, whether for consideration or not. Furthermore, the company may operate a liquidity balancing/net liquidity concentration (cash pooling) with the aforementioned companies, or participate in this cash pooling, including periodic account balancing. The company may also do this without consideration, on preferential terms, without interest, excluding the pursuit of profit by the company and taking grouped risks. The company may engage in all commercial, financial and other activities that are conducive to its purpose or related to it.