Banque Cantonale Vaudoise engages in the provision of banking services. The company is headquartered in Lausanne, Vaud and currently employs 2,103 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2002-12-06. In addition to its traditional areas of business (savings & loans and wealth management), BCV engages in large-corporate financing and selected trade-financing operations in commodities (softs and metals), and offers a portfolio of stock exchange services, including financial engineering consulting, equity and derivatives trading and operations in interest-rate instruments. The firm is also active in the field of new issues of fixed-income and structured products as, well as foreign-exchange trading. BCV is the parent company of a banking and financial group, which includes a private bank, two fund management companies, an online trading site and a private equity company. BCV also has a branch in Guernsey, which is active in structured products and fiduciary investments.
