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Crédit Agricole (Suisse) SA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Calyon, Crédit Agricole Group’s corporate and investment banking arm, is the Group’s main centre of private banking expertise and one of its leading international operations.
A seven-year period featuring numerous acquisitions has enabled Crédit Agricole (Suisse) to strengthen its position to become the third-largest foreign bank in Switzerland in terms of assets under management, total assets, shareholders’ equity and net profit (source: Association of Foreign Banks in Switzerland, 2006).
With around CHF 56 billion assets under management and more than 1'250 employees at the end of 2007, the Bank’s key business is Private Banking. It is also very active in Transactional Commodity Finance and Capital Markets.
Supported by the financial strength of the Crédit Agricole Group - rated AA- by S&P - and its vast international network, the Bank, whose head office is in Geneva, has focused on creating value, developing open architecture products and services platforms and controlled international expansion, strengthening its presence in the Middle East and emerging markets such as Asia, Latin America, Eastern and Central Europe.
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