Cornèr Bank
| Cornèr Banca SA | |
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| Country |
 Switzerland
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| Seat | Lugano |
| legal form | Corporation |
| IID | 8490 |
| BIC | CBLUCH22XXX |
| founding | 1952 |
| Website | www.corner.ch |
| Business data | |
| Total assets | 4.813 billion CHF (December 31, 2008) |
| Employee | 1214 (2016) |
| management | |
| Corporate management |
Paolo Cornaro |
The Cornèr Bank AG is a Swiss private bank based in Lugano. Your core business is private banking as well as credit and credit card business .
In addition to its headquarters, Cornèr Bank has branches in Locarno , Lausanne and Zurich as well as five branches in Ticino. Abroad, the bank has subsidiaries in Luxembourg , Milan and Nassau (Bahamas) . At the end of 2012 the company had 980 employees and in 2008 had total assets of 4.8 billion Swiss francs.
Cornèr Bank was founded in 1952 by Vittorio Cornaro and is still majority owned by the Cornaro family. The General Management of Cornèr Bank is headed by Paolo Cornaro.
Card business
In 1975, Cornèr Bank was the first bank in Switzerland to introduce the Visa card . In 1998 the Mastercard card was launched . In 2007, the number of 900,000 Cornèrcards issued was exceeded. This positions Cornèr Bank as number four in the Swiss credit card market.
Mobile payment
In October 2017, Cornèrcard introduced payment with Fitbit Pay. Visa customers of the card provider can use the Fitbit Iconic smartwatch to make contactless purchases worldwide . The Cornèrcard credit cards have now been activated for other mobile payment providers, including Apple Pay , Google Pay and Samsung Pay .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Entry in the bank master of Swiss Interbank Clearing
- ↑ Cornèrcard launches Fitbit Pay in Switzerland netzwoche.ch, October 10, 2017.