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CBH Compagnie Bancaire Helvétique SA

Four stars: protected deposits, a full published service range and a desk for external managers.

Booking centreSwitzerland
RegulatorFINMA
Legal formLicence holder
GroupCBH
Websitecbhbank.com
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Private Bank Rating
4 out of 5 stars
Editorial assessment on UHNW criteria
Reviewed 6 November 2026 · Q4 2026 edition
Updated every quarter
Rating signed byNoam CohenEditor, Bank Intelligence
About the rating
4 out of 5, Q4 2026 edition
Not publishedpricing on request
1matter on the record, 2021
Not publishedminimum relationship
The editor's opinion

Why CBH has four stars

CBH earns four stars. Remediation of past findings has been verified by the regulator. What a family should weigh: a significant regulatory finding stands on the record in the last ten years.

Noam Cohen, Editor, Bank IntelligenceReviewed 6 November 2026, Q4 2026 edition. The rating weighs the public record together with what clients and their advisers tell us in confidence; retail products, branches and apps play no part.

Where CBH stands out

  • Remediation of past findings has been verified by the regulator.
  • Custody assets are protected by statute in the booking centre, with conditions a family should read.
  • Deposits are covered by a statutory protection scheme.
  • A full range of private banking services is published for this booking unit.
  • A dedicated desk serves external asset managers and family offices.

What to weigh

  • A significant regulatory finding stands on the record in the last ten years.
  • The last adverse finding is recent.
  • Only a summary of the custody terms is public.
  • No fee schedule is published; pricing is given on request.
  • No public policy on third-party payments or retrocessions.

The rating expresses the opinion of PPLI.com on the date shown. It is not a statement of fact about the bank, not a credit rating, not a forecast of failure and not investment advice.

The record

Regulatory and legal record

What regulators, prosecutors and courts have decided, recorded against the legal entity they named, with the status, the amounts as published and a link to the original document. Claims and investigations still under way are marked as open.

202118 November 2021

Money laundering: FINMA concludes final proceedings connected with Venezuela (breaches 2012 to 2020)

FINMA found that CBH breached its AML obligations between 2012 and 2020 and did not adequately document and clarify higher-risk business connected with Venezuela. It ordered termination of all remaining Venezuelan client relationships and a review of other particularly risky relationships; FINMA noted CBH cooperated and had begun remediation. The release covers both CBH and Banca Zarattini & Co. SA; the findings are separate.

The measures imposed on CBH Bank include the termination of all remaining business relationships with Venezuelan clients.

Exit of remaining Venezuelan clients; review of high-risk relationships; FINMA to verify implementation.

FINMAFinal decisionPrimary source
Clients and standing

Client experience and financial standing

What clients meet at CBH, read from complaint registers, ombudsman decisions and court records, independent reporting and what clients and their advisers tell PPLI.com in confidence. Announcements by the bank, awards and marketing material are left out.

UHNW client ratings

2.0 out of 5, based on 2 client ratings for this booking centre.

What clients report

Press coverage of the bank since 2023 reports no data breach, client-money incident or service failure.

Worth raising with the bank

  • Ask what the bank changed after the FINMA money laundering proceedings concluded in November 2021 over its Venezuela-related business, and whether any FINMA measure from that case still applies.
What it costs

What CBH charges

CBH does not publish its private banking fees. We searched its website on 6 November 2026 for a fee schedule, a tariff or a pricing page. We read its legal, documents and client information pages and searched the site in each language it uses. 96 of the 151 banks we cover publish theirs. A family cannot see what a relationship with CBH would cost before asking, so the cost transparency element of the PPLI.com rating gives CBH no credit for a published schedule, and the bank cannot be placed in our fee comparison. If CBH publishes a schedule, we will read it and add it in the next edition.

Pricing not published

Banks that publish their fees, and how they compare, are listed on the comparison page. If you hold a proposal from CBH, our editors can place it against the published fees of other banks in confidence: write to [email protected].

The bank at a glance

Identity, protection and services

Legal identity

Legal nameCBH Compagnie Bancaire Helvétique SA
LEI529900E1UM2KL94K1071
LicenceBank  Source
RegulatorFINMA
Legal formLicence holder
OwnerNot published  Source

Ownership

Group parentCBH Compagnie Bancaire Helvétique SA (group umbrella company; majority owned by the Benhamou family)  Source
ControlBenhamou family; family owned  Source (22 October 2024)

Ownership is shown as published, with its date. It describes who owns the bank; it does not, by itself, suggest any wrongdoing by the bank or its owners.

Financial strength, as reported

Credit ratingsS&P BBB/A-2 (group), site re
Tier 1 ratio35.8% (31 Dec 2025)  Source
Assets under managementCHF 18.4 bn (31 Dec 2025)  Source

Services published for this booking unit

Private clients
Discretionary management
Advisory mandates
Custody only (execution and safekeeping)
Lombard lending
Mortgage lending
Multi currency accounts
Trust and fiduciary services
Family office services
Wealth planning
Consolidated reporting
External asset manager desk

Offered at this booking centreOffered by the group, not confirmed hereNot located, which does not mean unavailable
Checked on the bank's own pages, 6 November 2026.

Access and costs

Minimum relationshipNot published
US personsNot published
Fee scheduleNot published
Third party paymentsNot published
Transfer out termsNot published

Protection of client assets

Deposit protectionAll banks with a Swiss office must be members of esisuisse: privileged deposits are protected up to CHF 100,000 per client per bank, including non-resident clients and foreign currency deposits, within a system cap.
Custody lawSwiss Banking Act art. 37d: custody assets held for clients are separated from the bankrupt bank's estate and handed over to the clients, with privileged deposits protected under arts. 37a and 37h.
Custody termsNot published

Before opening an account

  • Custody agreement. The applicable legal framework is set out above. Ask for the agreement that would govern your account and check how securities are titled, whether any sub-custodian is used, and when the bank may take a lien.
  • A portfolio-backed credit line. If you intend to borrow against the portfolio, ask for the eligibility and haircut schedule, the margin-call timetable and the charges for holding or transferring pledged securities.
  • Transferring assets out. Ask which positions can be transferred without selling them, who approves exceptions, and how charges are calculated for each position and market.
Your experience

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Sources

All 9 documents cited on this page, by subject.

Regulatory and legal record

  1. FINMA: Money laundering: FINMA concludes final proceedings connected with Venezuela (breaches 2012 to 2020), 18 November 2021finma.ch

Identity, ownership, finances and services

  1. FINMA: Bewilligungstraeger (PDF)finma.ch · Licence
  2. finews.com: 64890 cbh simon benhamou privatbank ceo 2finews.com · Group parent
  3. CBH: Wealth managementcbhbank.com · Services
  4. CBH: Credit solutionscbhbank.com · Services
  5. CBH: Wealth planning solutionscbhbank.com · Services
  6. CBH: Private officecbhbank.com · Services
  7. CBH: Intermediariescbhbank.com · Services

The bank

  1. CBH, websitecbhbank.com

For CBH

Before we publish a significant negative finding that is not already public, we give the bank the facts and time to comment, on the same timetable for every bank. Decisions of regulators and courts are shown as they were published. Corrections we verify are published with the date of the change. Write to [email protected] quoting reference BK-CH-CBH-9E4EB7.

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Researched by the PPLI.com research desk from the public sources listed. The rating is our editorial opinion; read how we rate.

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