Bank Hottinger & Cie
| Bank Hottinger & Cie AG | |
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| Country |
 Switzerland
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| Seat | Zurich |
| legal form | Corporation |
| IID | 8766 |
| founding | 1968 (1786) |
| Website | www.hottinger.com |
| Business data | |
| Employee | 30 (2007) |
| management | |
| Corporate management |
Jörg Auf der Maur |
The Hottinger & Cie AG was one of the investment advisory and asset management specialist Swiss private bank .
The bank was founded in Zurich in 1968 . However, its roots go back to the Banque Hottinguer founded by Hans Konrad Hottinger in Paris in 1786 . This came from the Hottinger family dynasty, documented in Zurich since 1362, and was ennobled in 1810 by the French Emperor Napoleon I , who gave him the hereditary barony ( Baron de l'Empire ). In 1784 Hottinger had settled in Paris, where he was called Jean-Conrad and for reasons of pronunciation there the family name was changed from 1799 with an u to Hottinguer.
After more than 180 years of banking tradition in Paris, the descendants of the former Zurich bourgeois family came back to Zurich and from 1968 acted as private bankers under the name Hottinger & Compagnie . In 2010 the bank , which had previously been organized as a limited partnership with unrestricted and jointly liable partners, was converted into a stock corporation with the name Hottinger & Cie AG . The company has been operating under the name Bank Hottinger & Cie AG since 2012 . In addition to its headquarters in Zurich, the bank is present in Geneva , Basel , Sion , Brig and New York .
In the spring of 2013, the legally independent Geneva-based asset management company Hottinger & Partners AG was involved in a fraud scandal. Fabien Gaglio , who previously worked for Hottinger & Cie, confessed in 2013 that he had embezzled money from his customers at the time amounting to more than 100 million francs.
On October 26, 2015, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority declared bankruptcy over the bank. The bank is threatened with over-indebtedness. A renovation had been examined, but could not be achieved.
Web links
- Website of the Bank Hottinger & Cie AG
- Katja Hürlimann: Hottinger (merchants). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Martin Lassner: Hottinger, Hans Konrad [Jean Conrad Hottinguer]. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry of "Bank Hottinger & Cie AG" in the commercial register of the Canton of Zurich. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 10, 2013
- ↑ Entry in the bank master data of Swiss Interbank Clearing
- ↑ a b The banks in Switzerland 2009 ( memento of the original dated February 24, 2011) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 30 kB), Swiss National Bank
- ↑ The next Swiss financial scandal? finenews.ch, February 9, 2013.
- ↑ Christoph Sackmann: "This banker stole 100 million dollars and is now living in luxury on the Cotê d'Azur" Finance 100 of March 26, 2018
- ↑ Zürcher traditional bank Hottinger at the end of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, October 26, 2015, accessed on October 26, 2015.
Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '37.4 " N , 8 ° 32' 15.7" E ; CH1903: six hundred and eighty-three thousand and two / 247940