BONDPARTNERS SA (BPL) is a Swiss financial services company which was founded in 1972. It is authorized under the law to trade securities and is controlled by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA). In addition, BPL is member of the Swiss Bankers Association, member of the International Capital Market Association and associated member of the Swiss Stock Exchange.
Based in Lausanne and Gibraltar, the firm is quoted on the SIX Stock Exchange. BPL mainly performs various dealing and brokerage services on behalf of professional operators and institutional investors, such as banks, portfolio managers, savings and loan institutions, insurance companies, mutual and pension funds, stockbrokers and other financial intermediaries, etc. It is considered to be amongst the important European organizations in this industry.

BONDS / STOCKS

For 40 years Bondpartners has dealt a variety of bonds and debentures (fixed or variable rates, indexed, classic, convertible, zero-coupon, etc.) issued in over twenty currencies on behalf of professional counterparts. BPL is more particularly present on the secondary market where it acts alternately as market maker and intermediary.

With regard to shares and equities, BPL operates as broker on a dozen stock exchanges located in Europe, in North America and in the Far East.

HELVETICA

In addition to its traditional activities of inter-professional bond dealing and financial intermediation, Bondpartners maintains, since 1995, a market for the stocks and shares of small to mid-sized companies non-quoted on the stock exchange. This market, labelled "Helvetica", includes about 250 shares of corporations active in the fields of industry and transport, banking, publishing, hotel industry, electricity, etc.
About 2/3 of those are Swiss German. The quotations are displayed on Reuters, Telekurs, on Bondpartners' website, as well as in the specialized press.

In Switzerland, BPL holds a dominant position in this type of free and non-regulated market which is mainly carried out over the phone, in accordance with OTC procedures and the professional intervening parties' mutual agreement.

"Helvetica" is a deregulated complementary market, and not a parallel stock exchange. It constitutes an exchange platform for shares that did not obtain a stock exchange listing as much as an instrument for price publishing and valorization. Since the securities' liquidity is weak and the volatility potentially important, few traders are hence active in this market whose characteristic is to be extremely atomized, much in the way of small to mid-sized companies not listed in Switzerland or abroad.

(For more information please refer to the annual reports).