Banque Piguet Galland & Cie

Banque Piguet Galland & Cie

The bank traces its lineage through the 1856 founding of Banque Piguet and the 1889 launch of Galland & Cie, converging to form a single entity that navigates the tight regulatory and fiduciary landscape of Swiss private banking. The institution is anchored in the francophone cantons and runs a model designed for high-net-worth individuals who need integrated wealth structuring across Europe. The discretionary and advisory mandates span listed equities, fixed income, private equity, and real estate funds, with a bent toward Swiss and pan-European direct investments. The open-architecture framework means the bank aggregates third-party funds and in-house strategies, blending them for clients who want inheritance planning and tax-optimized portfolio management alongside Lombard lending. The bank operates branches in Yverdon-les-Bains, Lausanne, and Nyon, reflecting a regional focus that leans into Suisse romande's dense wealth corridor. It runs additional business lines around mortgage financing, corporate advisory, and institutional asset management, though the family-office style wealth planning desk remains its structural core. The structural differentiator lies in its hybrid banking license — it is not a pure-play family office or a brokerage, but a balance-sheet bank that issues mortgages, holds deposits, and provides credit. This creates a rare liquidity loop where client assets held in custody can collateralize lending within the same entity, a structure that independent asset managers cannot replicate without partnering with a separate banking platform.