Founded in Lugano in 1952, the Cornèr Bank Group is an independent Swiss private bank group operating on the national market as a full-service bank. Lugano is Switzerland's third-largest banking centre, after Zurich and Geneva. The Group's business is structured around Cornèr Bank Ltd., for all general banking services, Cornèrcard, the group's payment cards brand, Cornèrtrader, its online trading platform, and its affiliates providing additional financial services.