History
Foundation
Date:
30th October 1927
Original name: Bank der Genossenschaften und Gewerkschaften.
Legal
form: cooperative bank.
Founder members: Association of Swiss
Consumers’ Cooperative Societies (now Coop) and the Swiss Trade Union Federation
Objects:
to ensure financial requirements of the cooperative movement (in particular, house-building by building
cooperatives) and payment transactions.
Milestones
1927:
Foundation as the "Bank der Genossenschaften und Gewerkschaften"
1928:
Change of name to "Genossenschaftliche Zentralbank"
1970:
Reorganisation into joint-stock company
1995: Change of name to "Coop
Bank"
2000: Acquisition by Basler Kantonalbank of controlling
interest
2001:
Change of name to "Bank Coop"