Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Several robbers on mopeds stole an unspecified sum of money after attacking the teller at the Raiffeisen Bank in Granges-près-Marnand, a village of 1,200 people 10 km from Payerne, near the A1 autoroute. One of the thieves carried a gun, another a long object.
The robbery occurred at 10:30 Friday morning 8 April, when the teller was alone.
The teller was beaten and threatened, although the injuries did not require hospitalization.
Police say the group escaped on mopeds, two of which carried Valais plates but had been stolen in canton Vaud. The alarm was raised immediately and a large team of police from the canton but also surrounding communities, including dogs and their handlers, failed to turn up the robbers.
Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Regional and smaller customer banks continue to make inroads in Swiss banking, with cooperative bank Raiffeisen boosting its share of the Swiss mortgage market to 15 percent. Mortgages were up 9.1 percent, an increase of CHF9.2 billion.
The company’s 2009 financial results, announced Friday 5 March, show a strong inflow of new client money: CHF110.7b, an increase of 6.4 percent. The bank’s profit rose by 14.4 percent to CHF645.4 million.
Raiffeisen is the country’s third largest bank, after UBS and Credit Suisse, and it is steadily gained ground in recent years.
© 2009 Raiffeisen Schweiz
Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Raiffeisen bank, Switzerland’s third largest cooperative banking group, says its loan portfolio grew 4.3 percent to CHF 113.3 billion in the first half of 2009, compared to the same period last year. Fixed-rate mortgages made up 67 percent of the loan portfolio, the bank said 19 August. Client funds grew 3.5 percent in the period to CHF 107.7bn. Interest income for the bank was up 7.1 percent to almost CHF1bn in the first six months of the year. Its membership also grew to more than 1.6mn, an increase of 2.5 percent since end December.
Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Raiffeisen Bank consolidated its position as Switzerland’s third largest bank in 2008, with 158,000 new account holders and mortgages plus client deposits of more than CHF100 billion for the first time, it said in a press release Thursday 5 March.
