Valiant Bank

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  Valiant Bank AG
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Country SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Seat Bern
legal form Corporation
ISIN CH0014786500
IID 6300
BIC VABECH22XXX
founding 1997
Website www.valiant.ch
Business data 2019
Total assets 28.1 billion CHF
Employee about 1000
management
Board of Directors Markus Gygax (President)
Christoph B. Bühler (Vice President)
Corporate management

Ewald Burgener (CEO)

The Valiant Bank AG is an independent, active exclusively in Switzerland retail and SME banking. Valiant employs around 1,000 people, looks after around 380,000 customers and has total assets of 28.1 billion Swiss francs . The business area extends over the cantons of Aargau , Basel-Landschaft , Basel-Stadt , Bern , Freiburg , Jura , Lucerne , Neuchâtel , Solothurn , Vaud , Zug and Zurich .

Valiant Bank AG is a subsidiary of Valiant Holding AG. This is registered in the commercial register as a stock corporation and has its seat in Lucerne. Its shares, which are distributed among approximately 34,000 registered shareholders, at the SIX Swiss Exchange listed .

Business areas - Valiant: a universal bank

Since it was founded in 1997, Valiant has developed from a locally oriented regional bank into a broad-based Swiss bank. While the focus was initially on retail banking, SME banking and investment advice, over the years additional business areas have been developed and the existing offering has been continuously expanded. Today Valiant offers its customers a comprehensive range of products and services in the areas of retail banking, SME banking, private banking and asset management. Valiant is as of June 2016 the rating agency Moody's with a rating of A1 rated. As part of the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) , Valiant intends to use the SIX Open Banking Hub to enable third-party providers to access the bank account data.

History and Development

Registered share of CHF 500 in the trade bank in Bern on February 25, 1909
Share over 500 francs in the Spar- & Leihkasse in Bern on March 1, 1930
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Valiant was created in mid-1997 through the merger of the three regional banks Spar- & Leihkasse in Bern, Gewerbekasse in Bern and BB Bank Belp under a single holding company. To date, more than 40 banks have been united under the umbrella of Valiant Holding, the history of which dates back to the early 19th century.

Since 1997 Valiant has taken three pioneering growth steps:

  • Valiant was founded in 1997 through the merger of Spar- & Leihkasse in Bern, Gewerbekasse in Bern and BB Bank Belp.
  • In 2002 the mergers took place with KGS Sensebank, Lucerne Regiobank and IRB Interregio Bank.
  • Between 2008 and 2011 the mergers took place with Obersimmentalische Volksbank, Bank Jura Laufen, Spar + Leihkasse Steffisburg and Caisse d'épargne de Siviriez. In addition, during this period Valiant bought the asset manager Investas, opened six new branches, integrated two Banque de Dépots et de Gestion branches and announced the cooperation with PostFinance , the Triba Partner Bank and the Zürcher Kantonalbank .

At the end of 2011, the four subsidiary banks Valiant Bank, Banque Romande Valiant, Spar + Leihkasse Steffisburg and Valiant Privatbank were merged under the umbrella of Valiant Bank.

In March 2017, Valiant Holding AG and the Lucerne-based Triba Partner Bank AG announced that Valiant wanted to take over Triba. The purchase has now been completed. With the purchase of 36,741 additional Triba shares valued at 53.3 million francs, Valiant increased its stake in Triba from the original 30.6 percent to 97.4 percent. The Triba should have been fully integrated into Valiant by mid-2018.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry in the bank master of Swiss Interbank Clearing
  2. ↑ Brief portrait , accessed on May 24, 2019
  3. ↑ awp: Moody's upgrades Valiant's deposit ratings to A1 from A2; outlook stable In: moodys.com from June 9, 2016
  4. ↑ Samuel Gerber: These big banks are starting with SIX Open Banking first. In: finews.ch . May 15, 2019, accessed May 19, 2019 .
  5. ↑ News details. Retrieved May 24, 2019 .

Coordinates: 46 ° 56 '50.7 "  N , 7 ° 26' 39.7"  E ; CH1903:  600435  /  199 592