About us

GPB (Switzerland) Ltd. (formerly Gazprombank (Switzerland) Ltd) (“GPBS”) is a fully licensed Swiss financial institution, regulated by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA and 100% owned by Gazprombank (Joint Stock Company), registered in Moscow, Russia.

GPBS’ license covers all traditional corporate banking services and execution-only services to private clients in Switzerland and abroad. GPBS leverages its combined knowledge of the Swiss and Russian and CIS financial markets to offer a comprehensive set of services to its clients.

The total Assets and Equity of GPBS were CHF 1.4 billion and CHF 212 million respectively as of 30 June 2022. Gazprombank (Switzerland) Ltd employs around 70 highly skilled and multilingual professionals.

On 10 October 2022 GPBS announced a gradual wind-down of banking operations over the next months. Due to regulatory requirements, the name has changed from Gazprombank (Switzerland) Ltd to GPB (Switzerland) Ltd effective 10 October 2022. The voluntary wind-down process is managed by GPBS management in coordination with FINMA. GPBS continues banking operations during the wind-down period in accordance with the existing banking license and continues to be under FINMA supervision.

Gazprombank Group

At a Glance

Gazprombank (Joint Stock Company) is one of the largest universal financial institutions in Russia, providing a wide range of banking, financial and investment products and services to corporate and private customers, financial institutions, institutional and private investors.  GPBS is one of the three largest banks in Russia by all major indicators and ranks third in the list of banks in Central and Eastern Europe in terms of equity.

GPBS provides services to key sectors of the Russian economy – gas, oil, nuclear, chemical and petrochemical, ferrous and nonferrous metallurgy, electric power industry, engineering, transportation, construction, telecommunications, agriculture, trade and other.

Retail business is also a strategically important activity of Gazprombank, with its scale consistently increasing. Private customers are offered a full range of services: lending, deposits, payment transactions, banking cards and other.

Gazprombank has a strong position on the national and global financial markets, holding leadership in providing investment banking services to Russian and CIS clientele, including arranging and underwriting corporate bond issues, asset management, private banking, corporate finance, and other areas. Gazprombank’s customers include about 5 million individuals and about 61’400 legal entities. Gazprombank is a member of the Russian National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce.

Geographical Presence

In Russia, the regional network of Gazprombank consists of 20 branches located from Kaliningrad to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. The total number of banking offices exceeds 420.

Gazprombank participates in the equity of banks located in Russia, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Republic of Belarus, runs financial companies in Cyprus and Hong Kong, and has offices in Nur-Sultan (Astana) (Kazakhstan), Beijing (China), Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia) and New Delhi (India).