BONDPARTNERS SA (BPL) is a Swiss financial services company which was founded in 1972. It is authorized under the Federal Act on financial institutions (FinIA) and is therefore subjected to the control of the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA). In addition, BPL is member of the Swiss Bankers Association (SBA), member of the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) and reporting member of the Swiss Stock Exchange.

Based in Lausanne, BPL is listed on the OTC-X market of the Bern Cantonal Bank. It carries out various trading, intermediation and brokerage activities oriented towards professional and institutional investors such as banks, asset managers, provident funds, investment firms and insurance companies, brokerage firms and other financial intermediaries. It is considered to be amongst the important European organizations in this industry.

Events in 2022 were uncannily similar to those half a century earlier in 1972, the year Bondpartners was founded. Alongside other concerns, issues such as war, energy supplies, the environment, inflation and terrorism are again in the headlines, as are the atrocities, crises and dramas they bring with them. Naturally, the feeling of déjà vu cannot obscure the many changes that have happened in the last 50 years, including technological and scientific progress, economic and financial developments, and advances in politics and society.
But as Karl Marx wrote in 1852: “Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.” Aside from the philosophical debate about the changing nature of “universal” history and about whether that history should be interpreted in a materialistic or idealistic way, and although history does not repeat itself exactly, there are still certain analogies that can be drawn and some of them are disturbing, although naturally correlation is not causation.