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Hyposwiss Private Bank Genève SA

Three stars: a clean ten-year record, protected deposits and a desk for external managers.

Booking centreSwitzerland
RegulatorFINMA
Legal formLicence holder
Websitehyposwiss.ch
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Private Bank Rating
3 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
3 out of 5, Q4 2026 edition
Not publishedpricing on request
1matter on the record, 2015
Not publishedminimum relationship
The editor's opinion

Why Hyposwiss Private Bank Geneve has three stars

Hyposwiss Private Bank Geneve earns three stars. No final adverse finding against this licence holder in ten years of regulatory and court records. What a family should weigh: no fee schedule is published; pricing is given on request. Still to be confirmed: the custody terms and the policy on third-party payments. The rating counts only what is on file.

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 Hyposwiss Private Bank Geneve stands out

  • No final adverse finding against this licence holder in ten years of regulatory and court records.
  • 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 broad range of private banking services is published for this booking unit.
  • A dedicated desk serves external asset managers and family offices.

What to weigh

  • No fee schedule is published; pricing is given on request.
  • Ownership is only partly public.
  • Custody terms are not published; ask for the agreement before opening an account.
  • The policy on payments to and from third parties is not published.

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.

201529 October 2015

Non-prosecution agreement under the Swiss Bank Program, US-related accounts

Hyposwiss Private Bank Geneve entered a Swiss Bank Program non-prosecution agreement covering 91 US-related accounts since 1 August 2008 and paid a penalty of USD 1.109 million.

Hyposwiss Geneva will pay a penalty of $1.109 million.

Standard Swiss Bank Program cooperation obligations.

US Department of Justice (Swiss Bank Program, Category 2)Settlement without admissionPenalty USD 1.1 millionPrimary source
Clients and standing

Client experience and financial standing

What clients meet at Hyposwiss Private Bank Geneve, 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

2.3 out of 5, based on 3 client ratings for this booking centre.

What clients report

Clients of the Zurich subsidiary Fimanor, which was in liquidation by October 2024, have been moved to the bank.

Worth raising with the bank

  • Ask what terms and fees applied to clients moved to the bank from the Zurich subsidiary Fimanor when it went into liquidation.

In the press

What it costs

What Hyposwiss Private Bank Geneve charges

Hyposwiss Private Bank Geneve 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 Hyposwiss Private Bank Geneve would cost before asking, so the cost transparency element of the PPLI.com rating gives Hyposwiss Private Bank Geneve no credit for a published schedule, and the bank cannot be placed in our fee comparison. If Hyposwiss Private Bank Geneve 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 Hyposwiss Private Bank Geneve, 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 nameHyposwiss Private Bank Genève SA
LEI5493006CNBPJFU222A93
LicenceBank  Source
RegulatorFINMA
Legal formLicence holder
OwnerSet out under Ownership

Ownership

Group parentMirelis InvesTrust SA (Mirelis group, founded by the Lawi family)  Source
ControlLawi family (founders of the Mirelis group), with co-investor families Kadoori (via Maple Investment) and Dwek in Mirelis InvesTrust; family owned  Source (16 October 2024)
Holder of 10% or moreMirelis InvesTrust SA in Hyposwiss Private Bank Genève SA  Source (16 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 ratingsNot yet on file
CET1 ratio35.7% (31 Dec 2025)
SizeNot yet on file
Shareholders' equityCHF 84.7 million (31 Dec 2025)
Client assetsCHF 7.2 billion Hyposwiss group assets under management (31 Dec 2025)
Net profitCHF 6.2 million (31 Dec 2025)
Employees163 (31 Dec 2025)

Figures for Hyposwiss (Hyposwiss Private Bank Genève SA and its subsidiaries, as reported in the bank's results release). Sources: Allnews: Hyposwiss Private Bank publie ses résultats annuels 2025; Hyposwiss Advisors: The Hyposwiss Group.

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, 2 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.
  • Reporting to the family office. The bank lists a desk for external asset managers. Ask for a sample statement or data export and confirm whether it includes positions, transactions, accrued income and all currencies held.
  • 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.
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Sources

All 11 documents cited on this page, by subject.

Regulatory and legal record

  1. US Department of Justice (Swiss Bank Program, Category 2): Non-prosecution agreement under the Swiss Bank Program, US-related accounts, 29 October 2015justice.gov

Client experience and press

  1. finews.com: Hyposwiss Private Bank Sees Earnings Return to Normal Levels, 16 October 2024finews.com
  2. finews.ch: Genfer Hyposwiss wechselt Fuehrungsspitze aus, 6 July 2023finews.ch

Identity, ownership, finances and services

  1. FINMA: Bewilligungstraeger (PDF)finma.ch · Licence
  2. finews.ch: 64802 hyposwiss private bank mirelis investrust naher osten halbjahr…finews.ch · Group parent
  3. allnews.ch: Allnews: Hyposwiss Private Bank publie ses résultats annuels 2025allnews.ch · Financial strength
  4. Hyposwiss Private Bank Geneve: Hyposwiss Advisors: The Hyposwiss Groupadvisors.hyposwiss.ch · Financial strength
  5. Hyposwiss Private Bank Geneve: Private clientshyposwiss.ch · Services
  6. Hyposwiss Private Bank Geneve: Activites serviceshyposwiss.ch · Services
  7. Hyposwiss Private Bank Geneve: Activites serviceshyposwiss.ch · Services

The bank

  1. Hyposwiss Private Bank Geneve, websitehyposwiss.ch

For Hyposwiss Private Bank Geneve

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-HYPOSWISS-252846.

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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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Rating signed by Noam Cohen, Editor, Bank IntelligenceReviewed 6 November 2026Methodology 2.4Reference BK-CH-HYPOSWISS-252846
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