Skip to main content
Swiss federal authorities

701001 Activities of head offices of financial companies


This type includes overseeing and managing other units of the enterprise or enterprise group, in other words, acting as a head office; undertaking the strategic or organisational planning and decision making role of the company or enterprise active in the financial sector; exercising operational control and managing the day-to-day operations of their related units. These activities are the same regardless of which activities the managed units perform (financing, manufacturing trade, and so on).

This type includes activities of:

  • centralised administrative offices
  • corporate offices
  • district and regional offices
  • subsidiary management offices

This type excludes:

  • activities of holding companies not engaged in managing, see 642100