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HSBC Guyerzeller Bank AG

Overview:

Our main aim is to satisfy our clients' most demanding requirements. This is the guiding principle behind the comprehensive, customized investment advice we provide. The professional interests of our Wealth Managers and legal experts are geared fully towards the financial and personal needs of our clients.

We strive at all times to build up long-term relationships based on discretion and trust. Our transparent corporate structure helps to ensure that your privacy remains protected, while our proven track record gives you the security that we have expertise to generate sustained success on your behalf. These are just a few of the reasons why so many of our new clients are referred to us by existing clients.

HSBC Guyerzeller Bank AG has a solid base of long-serving employees who offer our clientele the best possible continuity. Many of the bank's employees acquired their qualifications in a wide array of cultural environments and view their career at HSBC Guyerzeller Bank AG as a long-term commitment.

History:

HSBC Guyerzeller Bank AG's origins date back to the late 19th century, when Adolf Guyer-Zeller, an engineer and one of the pioneers of Swiss railways, ventured on a daring project to build a railway to the peak of the Jungfrau mountain.

Celebrated as the "Top of Europe", the Jungfraujoch boasts a world-famous cogwheel railway. The pioneering spirit behind this daring project, now recognized as one of the greatest achievements of Swiss engineering, was Zurich businessman Adolf Guyer-Zeller. A technical tour de force, it owes its existence to the characteristic energy and dynamism of its originator, who overcame all manner of obstacles and misgivings in pursuit of his goal.

In search of a way to finance the company, he duly established the Guyerzeller Bank. Adolf Guyer-Zeller was a pioneer and entrepreneur in the truest sense of the word, uncompromising in his determination to see his ideas transformed into reality. A single-minded businessman, he was nevertheless an individual of many interests and a visionary character. The son of an industrialist, Adolf Guyer-Zeller studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich before embarking on a series of extended trips to leading industrial and trading centres designed to broaden his education.

The experience reinforced his pioneering spirit, his yearning for independence and the strength of his determination. To this day, HSBC Guyerzeller Bank AG owes its existance to the entrepreneurial flair of Adolf Guyer-Zeller.


Learn more about the fascinating story of the origin of HSBC Guyerzeller Bank AG in "Building on our heritage", available as a PDF file.

Major milestones in HSBC Guyerzeller Bank AG's history:

   * 1894
     Adolf Guyer-Zeller founds the bank, Guyerzeller Bank AG, to finance the construction of the railway line to the top of the Jungfrau mountain
   * 1959
     Merger with Zurmont Bank, the Swiss subsidiary of the London Merchant Bank, Samuel Montagu & Co.
   * 1992
     Guyerzeller Bank AG becomes a member of the HSBC Group upon the absorption of Midland Bank. Midland Bank became the majority shareholder of Guyerzeller Bank AG when it acquired Samuel Montagu & Co.
   * 1997
     Trinkaus & Burkhardt (Schweiz) AG is integrated into Guyerzeller Bank AG
   * 1998
     HSBC Group increases its participation in Guyerzeller Bank AG to 96%; in 1999 the bank is renamed "HSBC Guyerzeller Bank AG"
   * 2001
     HSBC Guyerzeller Bank AG announces its intention to integrate two Swiss private banks belonging to HSBC group: Crédit Commercial de France (Suisse) S.A. and Handelsfinanz-CCF Bank (for more details see the News section on our homepage)
   * 2004
     HSBC Guyerzeller Bank AG is wholly owned by the HSBC group after purchasing the remaining shares from HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt KGaA

HSBC Guyerzeller Bank AG is regulated under Swiss banking law. It is a member of the Swiss Bankers' Association, supervised by the Swiss Federal Banking Commission and authorised to conduct the full range of banking and investment services in Switzerland.

KEY Facts:

Established 1959
Employees 341
Ownership
HSBC Private Banking Holdings (Suisse), Geneva
Ultimately: HSBC Holdings plc, London (100%)

Present in Zurich, Geneva, Hong Kong, Istanbul

The results of 2001 and 2002 reflect integration costs in the wake of the merger with 2 sister banks as well as provisions and write-offs related to our affiliated private equity company Zurmont Capital AG.

Swift/BIC: GUYE CH ZZ

Postal account: 80-3119-3

Clearing Bank No: 8271

Telex: 815306 gzb ch OR 815381 gzv ch

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