Founded in Lugano in 1952, the Cornèr Group is an independent Swiss private bank group operating as a full-service bank. Lugano is Switzerland’s third-largest banking center, after Zurich and Geneva. Active across the whole range of traditional banking services, the Cornèr Group specializes in the private banking sector, as well as in the areas of lending, Visa, Mastercard and Diners Club payment cards (Cornèrcard) and online trading (Cornèrtrader) – the core businesses on which the growth of the Cornèr Bank Group is based. The Cornèr Group comprises the Lugano-based parent bank Cornèr Bank Ltd., the four branches in Chiasso, Geneva, Locarno and Zurich, and the affiliates Cornèr Bank (Overseas) Limited, Cornèr Europe Ltd. and Finpromotion. Information at cornergroup.ch