Alternative Bank Switzerland
| Alternative Bank Schweiz AG | |
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| Country |
 Switzerland
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| Seat | Olten |
| legal form | Corporation |
| IID | 8390 |
| BIC | ABSOCH22XXX |
| founding | 1990 |
| Website | www.abs.ch |
| Business data 2017 | |
| Total assets | 1.745 billion CHF |
| Employee | 107 |
| management | |
| Board of Directors | Anita Wymann (President) |
| Corporate management |
Martin Rohner (Chairman of the Management Board ) |
The Alternative Bank Switzerland AG (ABS) based in Olten is a Swiss bank , which as a goal is not to maximize profit but to promote ecological and social has projects. The ABS therefore only grants loans that meet its ethical guidelines. It also grants discounted loans in eight funding areas (including renewable energies , organic agriculture , health & prevention) as well as for ecological construction and renovation. A trademark of ABS is its transparency : It publishes the names of the borrowers and the purpose of the loans.
Field of activity
Alternative Bank Schweiz AG is active in the areas of saving, investing and financing. She offers her customers a diverse range of products for everyday use. In addition to her work as a bank, she has a socio-political mandate: As part of her public relations work, she wants to sensitize the population to the sustainable use of money.
Internally, the ABS pursues a democratic personnel policy; participation and equal opportunities for men and women are very important.
In 2005 she received the Prix Egalité for her commitment to equal opportunities. She knows u. a. also a quota regulation for the board of directors , according to which no gender can occupy more than 60 percent of the seats.
facts and figures
At the end of 2014, ABS had 33,224 customers. The balance sheet total was 1.586 billion Swiss francs. The ABS is supported by more than 5,000 shareholders.
history
Alternative Bank Schweiz AG was founded on October 29, 1990 in Olten. It emerged from circles of ecological, self-administered and development-political organizations and movements. It owes its establishment, among other things, to the preparatory work of the Bern Declaration (EvB).
In 1997, ABS opened an agency for French-speaking Switzerland in Lausanne , followed by an information office for Italian-speaking Switzerland in Bellinzona in 2005 , which has since been closed again. In 2010 , a counseling center was opened in Zurich , where a contact point had already existed since 2007.
Following the decision of the Swiss National Bank , negative interest rates to charge on current accounts of commercial banks, the ABS in October 2015 led the first bank to negative interest rates in the retail business one.
The bank is a member of the Global Alliance for Banking on Values .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry of "Alternative Bank Schweiz AG" in the commercial register of the Canton of Solothurn ( Memento from March 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Entry in the bank master of Swiss Interbank Clearing
- ↑ Annual report 2017
- ↑ Alternative Bank Switzerland: New conditions for almost all accounts. In: www.abs.ch. October 17, 2015, accessed October 26, 2016 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 21 '11.8 " N , 7 ° 54' 18" E ; CH1903: 635 236 / 244818