Partnerships

Partnerships

Key associations


The Banque Cantonale de Genève is linked, due to its status or via its CEO, to several key associations or active institutions of the Swiss financial centre. It allows the Bank to interact with a network enriched by important actors who promote or defend in particular the interests of Swiss financial institutions.
The ASCB is responsible for representing the joint interests of the Association's members and supports measures which strengthen the position of the Cantonal Banks in Switzerland. It also promotes cooperation between the individual members.
http://www.kantonalbank.ch
The SBA is the leading professional organisation of the Swiss financial centre. Its main purpose is to maintain and promote the best possible framework conditions for the Swiss financial centre both at home and abroad.
http://www.swissbanking.org
The Geneva Financial Center is the trade association of the financial centre. Its primary objective is to promote the development and the influence of the regional financial centre.
http://www.geneve-finance.ch
The aim of the Central Mortgage Bond Institution of the Swiss Cantonal Banks SA (Central Mortgage Bond Institution) is to extend to property owners long-term loans against real property at rates as stable and favourable as possible. To this end, it issues mortgage bonds and extends loans to its shareholders in exchange for real estate collateral to allow them to finance their mortgage business. These shareholders are required to create provisions for their receivables.
http://www.pfandbriefzentrale.ch
STSA (Swiss Trading and Shipping Association) is the major professional association for trading and maritime goods transport in Switzerland. Founded in 2006 under the name of GTSA (Geneva Trading & Shipping Association), it became STSA in October 2014, a Swiss professional association grouping together the regional associations like an umbrella organisation.
https://stsa.swiss

BNS Branch


A BNS Branch at Banque Cantonale de Genève’s Head Office

Banque Cantonale de Genève has opened a branch of the Swiss National Bank (BNS), by taking on some of the activities of the Geneva branch of BNS (which closed on 31 January 2012). The new branch, which opened on 1st February 2012, is located at the Ile Head Office. 

The BNS closed its Geneva branch on 31 January 2012. The BCGE has taken on a number of the BNS Geneva branch activities, becoming official distributor in the canton of Geneva, and thereby reinforcing its role in contributing to the canton’s development. These activities include the exchange of CHF banknotes from older series, the exchange at face value of commemorative CHF coins and the exchange of badly damaged banknotes - within the limits set by the SNB.

Opening hours: 09h00 am -11h45 am and 1h45 pm - 5h30 pm (Mondays to Fridays, except bank holidays)

Tel.: 022 809 25 08
Fax : 022 809 73 15

Address: 17, quai de l'Ile - 1204 Genève

Cantonal partnerships


The Banque Cantonale de Genève's primary aim is to play its part in the development of the Geneva region as an economic centre. In this respect, it collaborates on a regular basis with the associations that are active at cantonal level.
The role of the Association of Geneva Municipalities is to inform and advise its members, as well as to defend their joint interests in their dealings with the public authorities and private sector organisations. The Association has become a genuine hub, a centre for coordinating and steering projects and training, as well as providing operational support for the municipalities.
http://www.acg.ch
An Association under private law, independent of the State, the Chamber's aim is to ensure a strong economy, enabling the players who make up the economic fabric to carry out their activity on a permanent basis.
For 90 years now, the Geneva Association for Property Owners has been striving to promote property ownership and defends the interests of all property owners.
http://www.geneve-finance.ch
The FAE was founded in 2005, on the basis of the Business Aid Law, voted by the Grand Council of Geneva. Comprising finance and management specialists, its aim is to help businesses in the Republic and in the Canton of Geneva.
http://www.fae-ge.ch

Patronage and Sponsoring

Together with the 23 other cantonal banks, BCGE promotes responsible behaviour towards money among young people through an educational game

Together with the 23 other cantonal banks and in collaboration with the ‘Syndicat des enseignants romands (SER)’ (teachers union of French-speaking Switzerland) and the ‘Dachverband Lehrerinnen und Lehrer Schweiz (LCH)’ (umbrella organisation of teachers Switzerland), BCGE is committed to promoting financial literacy. The national FinanceMission project aims to raise awareness among young people of the need to behave responsibly when it comes to money and to promote their general financial culture in a lasting way. To this end, an innovative educational offer is now available for teaching thanks to the FinanceMission Heroes game and its corresponding training material.

The first FinanceMission offer includes the digital educational game "FinanceMission Heroes" as well as the teaching support material that goes with it. The game can be used by students as an app on their smartphone, tablet or computer. In doing so, they take on the role of a superhero and must free an imaginary city from devious and criminal robots. In the game, it is necessary to choose appropriate financing strategies for equipment objects, to allocate resources properly in terms of time and to budget correctly. In this way, students learn - in the true sense of the word - financial skills through play. For today's young people, the use of digital applications, apps and mobile devices is a matter of course. Serious games such as "FinanceMission Heroes" allow complex facts to be presented in a way that is very familiar to teenagers. In the game, students learn through their actions, suffer the consequences of their decisions in a stimulating environment and have the chance to correct their mistakes later on.
 

 

Website jeunesetbudget.ch

Launched by the Cantonal Banks, the website jeunesetbudget.ch deals with issues relating to young people and money.

This trilingual site provides parents with advice and tips, and helps them to teach their youngsters to manage their money responsibly.

The BCGE takes a targeted and limited approach to the support it gives to local initiatives and events in favour of structures in the canton and of youth work. Given its legal obligations (forming the capital, paying dividends, repaying the expenses of the Fondation de valorisation), the BCGE only has a limited and targeted budget for local and selected actions.

Donations

Within the framework of its patronage policy, the BCGE supports local associations with charitable, social or humanitarian aims. Donations are generally spread on an annually rotating basis to benefit local social and charitable causes or to target youth work and occasionally sporting initiatives which attract the general public, all without any commercial return.

Sponsoring

Sponsorship falls within a global marketing concept and primarily involves popular local events. BCGE's support is provided with commercial gains in return, mainly promoting the bank's products and services depending on the target audience, and enhancing the reputation of its business activities and its corporate identity.

Foundation for cultural, social and sporting support

The real estate foundation "Patrimoine" was founded in 1996 with the aim of supporting cultural, social and sporting activities of general interest in the canton of Geneva and its region. To this end, the foundation had acquired various buildings that had previously belonged to the Caisse d'épargne de la République et Canton de Genève and the Banque hypothécaire du Canton de Genève. Management of the buildings generates the resources which, once interest and customary loan/credit repayments have been made, on the one hand, and expenses paid for normal building maintenance and depreciation, on the other, means that the net income from the assets can be allocated towards the aims of the foundation. In the coming years, the foundation intends to increase its support for cultural, social and sporting events of general interest in the canton of Geneva and its region.
 

Banque Cantonale de Genève has been supporting kitesurfer, freerider and multiple world champion Maxime Chabloz, one of its sports ambassadors, since 2019.

This partnership is based on guiding principles that apply to both sports and finance: adherence to strict rules, the sharing of common convictions and the use of specific procedures.

As part of this partnership, Maxime Chabloz also participates in exclusive Bank events, where he talks not only about his sporting career but about the rigours of becoming a top athlete.

The Bank features Maxime in several of its marketing materials.

The talented athlete, who won the 2024 freestyle kitesurfing world title, represents the same values as the Bank: commitment and performance.

“Being a BCGE sports ambassador means upholding the Bank's values and its commitment to young people, particularly through sports, which require a great deal of conviction, discipline and preparation – just like finance. This partnership is a win-win. It allows me to pursue my athletic dreams and to completely focus on my training so that I can be at my best when I compete. I am really proud that the Bank uses my image on its marketing materials to get its message across. I also really enjoy participating in BCGE events. Not only can I talk about my career and my athletic achievements, but I can also share new perspectives with those attending and help them see how much you can achieve when motivated.”
Maxime Chabloz


Maxime Chabloz, kite surfer

Junior world champion

At the age of 9, Maxime Chabloz took up kitesurfing after a remarkable debut in skiing. In 2017, aged just 17, he was crowned Junior World Champion and is now one of the world’s top kitesurfers. In 2018, he took part in the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires and reached the semi-finals of the World Championships in Brazil. Now a professional athlete, he has made his mark at some of the world’s finest kitesurfing spots. He was voted Junior Sailor of the Year by Swiss Sailing in 2017 and 2018.

In 2022, Maxime won skiing’s Freeride World Tour after three victories, which included the Xtrem in Verbier and second place in the GKA Kite World Tour in Brazil. The following year, he was runner-up in the Freeride World Tour ski championship and third overall in the GKA Kite World Tour 2023. For five years now, he has been one of the top five kitesurfers in the world. In 2024, he was named world freestyle kitesurfing champion in Qatar.

The Bank is proud to be represented by such a talented athlete and wishes him every success in his future competitions, whether on the water or on the snow!

Follow Maxime’s adventures on his Instagram page @maxime_chabloz and on his webpage

BCGE has been sponsoring the Prix de l'Artisanat since 1999

The Prix de l'Artisanat, created in 1999, highlights the skills of a Geneva craftsman, his commitment to training the next generation and the transmission of his know-how.

Awarded under the patronage of the Association des Communes Genevoises (www.acg.ch), the prize highlights the richness and diversity of Geneva's craftsmanship.