REYL & Cie

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REYL & Cie
Type Société anonyme (SA)
Industry Private banking, financial services
Founded1973
FoundersDominique Reyl
Headquarters
Geneva
Number of locations
9
Area served
worldwide
Services Wealth Management, Corporate & Family Governance, Corporate Advisory & Structuring, Asset Services, Asset management
Total assets CHF 25 billion
Number of employees
245
Website http://www.reyl.com

REYL Intesa Sanpaolo, REYL & Cie according to its legal name, is a financial services company founded in Geneva in 1973 by Dominique REYL.

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REYL specialises in wealth management, entrepreneur & family office services, corporate finance, asset services and asset management. [1]   In 2022, REYL & Cie increased its assets under management by 37% in the space of one year and reached 18.1 billion francs. Including minority interests, its overall assets jumped 52% to reach 38.7 billion francs.

History

Dominique Reyl founded the Compagnie Financière d'Etudes et de Gestion (CFEG), a portfolio management company in Geneva in 1973. In January 1988 CFEG's activities were transferred into REYL & Cie and in 1999, REYL & Cie was granted the authorised securities dealer status. François Reyl, son of Dominique, joined REYL in 2002. [2]

In 2008, François Reyl was appointed Chief Executive Officer and REYL moved its headquarters to upscale rue du Rhône, in Geneva. A year later, REYL opened an office in Luxemburg and an independent subsidiary in Singapore.

After having been granted a banking licence in 2010, REYL & Cie opened a first Swiss branch in Zurich and founding REYL Overseas Ltd., a licensed Registered Investment Advisor with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The affiliate opened its first branch in Dallas in 2016. [3]

The fourth business line Corporate Finance, widening the scope of services provided, was launched in 2012, the same year as the opening of a second Swiss branch in Lugano.

In 2013, REYL established a UK presence with the incorporation of REYL & CO (UK) LLP. The same year, the Group's name was associated with the Cahuzac affair, involving former French Finance Minister Jérôme Cahuzac; charges were rapidly dropped in Switzerland in 2014, the Bank was sentenced to a fine in France in 2017. [4]

In 2015 REYL expanded into its fifth business line, Asset Services, as part of its diversification strategy, obtained a fund custodian license in Malta and opened REYL Finance (MEA) Ltd, awarded with a commercial license from the Dubai Financial Services Authority. [5] [6]

In 2017, REYL made a minority investment in Aspiration, [7] an online banking platform based in Los Angeles. [8] The same year REYL was awarded Outstanding Boutique Private Bank in Switzerland. [9]

In 2020, Alpian, a digital bank incubated by the REYL Group, was launched to offer comprehensive and premium digital banking services.

In addition, in the context of this partnership, REYL also integrated Banque Morval, a Swiss establishment controlled by Intesa Sanpaolo since 2017.

In January 2022, REYL acquired a 40% stake in 1875 Finance, a Geneva-based multi-family office and independent asset manager with over CHF 13 billion of assets under management for private clients. [10]

Offshore business / Conviction

In connection with the "Cahuzac affair" involving the French finance minister Jérôme Cahuzac, a French court in December 2016 sentenced the bank to a fine of 1.875 million euros and the general manager François Reyl to a suspended prison sentence of one year and a fine of 375,000 euros. The court found that Bank Reyl had served as an "instrument for the concealment of assets" of former French Finance Minister Jérôme Cahuzac. [11]

A full “confusion des peines” [12] was granted as part of the CRPC homologated on 18 April 2023, which allows for the final consolidation of such procedures, two of which were in fact closed more than seven years before. Consequently, the residual amounts due by the Bank and its CEO in connection with this last legal chapter amounted to EUR 1,2m.

Management

The Bank operates under the direction of six partners : François Reyl, Pasha Bakhtiar, [13] Nicolas Duchêne, Christian Fringhian and Lorenzo Rocco di Torrepadula. [14] Their activity is overseen by a board of directors (2021) comprising Christian Merle (chairman), Michel Broch (vice-chairman), Yves Claude Au [15] bert, Liane Elias Hoffman Ruth Metzler-Arnold [16] Tommaso Corcos, Lino Mainolfi and Riccardo Barbarini.

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  4. ↑ "Affaire Cahuzac: pas d'appel, Reyl tourne définitivement la page". Bilan (in French). Retrieved 2017-12-19
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