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"},{"title":"White-labelling issuers","content":"Leonteq manufactures and manages structured investment products for banks that have become Leonteq platform partners in a white-labelling format. It also enables life insurance companies to produce capital-efficient, unit-linked savings and drawdown solutions with guarantee and upside. "},{"title":"Digital solutions and connectivity","content":"Leonteq\u2019s technology platform is vertically integrated, covering the entire value chain from structuring, pricing, documentation, issuance, listing and settlement to risk management, market-making, lifecycle management, distribution, risk and regulatory reporting, and accounting services. "}],"quote":"Leonteq\u2019s ecosystem for investment solutions allows for the connection and collaboration with local and global players within the financial service sector.","title":"Our Ecosystem","headline":"Leonteq\u2019s ecosystem for investment solutions allows for the connection and collaboration with local and global players within the financial service sector.","content":"Connections are enabled through our service and technology platform, which is built from the ground up in-house, using state-of-the-art infrastructure and programming languages. \n\nOur technology platform plays an essential role in ensuring the timely and high-quality delivery of our products and services, as well as the creation of innovative new product and service offerings.\n\nOur ecosystem houses our digital marketplace of core applications."},"boardOfDirectors":{"personnelList":[{"identifier":"364fbb10-a5d0-4425-bc18-226b90a7ec36","image":"https://www.leonteq.com/images/board-of-directors/leonteq-structured-products-chris-chambers-605px-2020.jpg","thumbnail":"https://www.leonteq.com/images/board-of-directors/thumbnails/leonteq-structured-products-chris-chambers-120px-2020.jpg","education":"Christopher Chambers completed his education in the UK. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and holds a diploma in German Language from the London Chamber of Commerce.","professionalBackground":"Christopher Chambers began his career in investment banking in 1990, when he joined Barclays de Zote Wedd Ltd., UK. In 1997, he moved to Credit Suisse First Boston, UK, where he served as Head European Equity Capital Markets until 2002. From 2002 until 2005, he was CEO of Man Investments Ltd., and from 2007\u20132009, he served as Chairman of the Board of Jelmoli Ltd., Switzerland. From 2009 to 2011, Christopher Chambers was also a member of the Board of Evolution Group Plc, UK. He was a member of the Supervisory Board of Cembra Money Bank Ltd., Switzerland, from 2010 until 2016, and Vice-Chairman of its Board between 2013 and 2016. He subsequently served as Chairman of the Board of Moneta Money Bank, Czech Republic, until 2017. From 2012 to 2019 he served as a member of the Supervisory Board of Berenberg  Bank (Schweiz) AG, and from 2017 to 2019 he served as the Chairman of the Board of Pendragon Plc, UK. Furthermore, he served as an Executive Chairman of the Board of Lonrho Limited, UK from 2013 to 2023 and as member of the Board of Swiss Prime Site AG, Switzerland from 2009 to 2024.","committees":[],"termExpires":"2027","imageReserve":"https://www.leonteq.com/images/board-of-directors/imagereserve/leonteq_230x280_christopher_chambers.jpg","currentExternalActivities":"Christopher Chambers has served as a member of the Board of Oxford Science Enterprises plc, UK, since 2015 and as its Chairman since 2020.","nationality":"Swiss & British","firstElection":"2017","name":"Christopher M. 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He joined the Zurich-based law firm Niederer Kraft and Frey AG in 1994, became a partner in 2002 and has served as Chairman of the Board and Management Partner from 2015\u20132021 and has since remained a member of the Board.","committees":[{"chair":false,"name":"Nomination and Remuneration Committee"}],"termExpires":"2027","imageReserve":"https://www.leonteq.com/images/board-of-directors/imagereserve/leonteq_230x280_philippe_weber.jpg","currentExternalActivities":"Philippe Weber has served as a member of the Board of Directors of PolyPeptide Group AG, Zug since 2021, and as a member of the Board of Directors of Medacta Group AG, Castel San Pietro, since 2019. He has also served as a member of the Board of Directors of EDAG Group AG, Arbon, since 2015, and as a member of the Board of Directors of Banca del Ceresio SA, Lugano since 2017, and as a member of the Board of Northstar Holding AG, Roggwil, since 2017.","nationality":"Swiss","firstElection":"2020","name":"Philippe Weber","position":"Vice-Chairman","yearOfBirth":"1965"},{"identifier":"2085e2ef-f60a-43ac-976a-ff31123380db","thumbnail":"https://www.leonteq.com/images/board-of-directors/thumbnails/120x120px_barbara_heller.jpg","currentExternalActivities":"Barbara A. Heller has served as Chairwoman of the Andermatt Responsible Board since 2024. Since 2021, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of Graubündner Kantonalbank, Chur, and a member of the Strategy Committee. Since 2020, she has been a member of the Investment and the Stewardship Committee of the Transparenta Pension Fund, Aesch. Since 2013, she has also served as Vice-Chairwoman of the Association Board of CFO Forum Switzerland \u201cCFOs\u201d and as Chairwoman of the Jury of the Swiss \u201cCFO of the Year Award\u201d.","education":"Barbara A. Heller holds a master\u2019s degree in economics and finance from the University of Zurich.","nationality":"Swiss","firstElection":"2026","name":"Barbara A. Heller","professionalBackground":"Barbara A. Heller started her career at Bank Leu AG in Zurich, where she served as Managing Director and Head of Capital Markets & Corporate Finance from 1991 to 1997. She then joined Vontobel Investment Banking, Zurich, where she held various roles including Managing Director and Senior Project Manager from 1997 to 2005. From 2005 to 2012, she served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Risk Officer at Santhera Pharmaceuticals Holding AG, where she was also a member of the Group Executive Management. Since 2013, she has been Managing Partner, Delegate and Chairwoman of the Board of SWIPRA Services AG, Zurich, and since 2024 she has been Founding Partner of Trusted Board Advisors AG, Zurich.","committees":[{"chair":true,"name":"Audit and Risk Committee"}],"termExpires":"2027","imageReserve":"https://www.leonteq.com/images/board-of-directors/imagereserve/230x280_barbara_heller.jpg","yearOfBirth":"1967"},{"identifier":"1f1d71b7-3278-404e-8bdc-234794da30e8","thumbnail":"https://www.leonteq.com/images/board-of-directors/thumbnails/philippe+le+baquer_120x120px.jpg","currentExternalActivities":"Since 2017 he has served a Senior Advisor at Rothschild & Co.","education":"Philippe Le Baquer holds a Master\u2018s degree in Business Administration from the Université de Rennes, France and a post-graduate degree in Finance and Capital Markets from Sciences Po Paris.","nationality":"French","firstElection":"2021","name":"Philippe Le Baquer","professionalBackground":"Philippe Le Baquer  started his career at Morgan Grenfell/Deutsche Bank in 1992 as an M&A banker in Paris and London. He then worked as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers in London from 1999 to 2008. From 2008 to 2017 he served as a Managing Director at Rothshild & Co, London advising a wide range of financial institutions, governments and regulators on strategic matters, mergers & acquisitions and capital market transactions. From 2020 to 2024 he served as a member of the Board of Directors of invoitix AG, Switzerland.","committees":[{"chair":false,"name":"Nomination and Remuneration Committee"}],"termExpires":"2027","imageReserve":"https://www.leonteq.com/images/board-of-directors/imagereserve/leonteq_230x280_philippe_le-baquer.jpg","yearOfBirth":"1966"},{"identifier":"c5896b04-5b2f-406c-a04e-0b1ec9ab0d9e","thumbnail":"https://www.leonteq.com/images/board-of-directors/thumbnails/thomas+meier_120x120px.jpg","currentExternalActivities":"Thomas Meier has been a member of the Board of Directors of EHC Kloten Sport AG, Kloten, since 2024.","education":"Thomas Meier holds a doctorate in Law from the University of Zurich, and he completed the Advanced Management Program at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.","nationality":"Swiss","firstElection":"2017","name":"Thomas R. Meier","professionalBackground":"Thomas Meier began his career at Credit Suisse Group and served as a relationship manager from 1988 to 1993. He subsequently held various senior positions in the Asia Region from 1993 to 1999 before being appointed CEO North Asia and Branch Manager of the Hong Kong office of Credit Suisse from 2000 to 2004. He became Head of Private Wealth Management and served as a member of the Management Board of Deutsche Bank (Luxembourg) from 2004 to 2005. He then joined Bank Julius Baer, where he served as CEO Asia from 2005 to 2015 and as member of the Executive Board from 2007 to 2015. After his return to Switzerland, he was Head of Corporate Sustainability at Bank Julius Baer from 2015 to 2017 and Chairman of the Julius Baer Foundation from 2016 to June 2018. From 2019 to 2022, he was member of the Advisory Board of CCB Trust, Beijing and served as Managing Director and member of the Board of TRM Consulting AG from 2017 to 2022. Thomas Meier was also a member of the Board of Directors of VP Bank AG, Liechtenstein, from 2018 and its Chairman from 2020 to 2024. He also has been a trustee of the Smiling Gecko Foundation, Switzerland, from 2020 to 2025.","committees":[{"chair":false,"name":"Audit and Risk Committee"},{"chair":true,"name":"Nomination and Remuneration Committee"}],"termExpires":"2027","imageReserve":"https://www.leonteq.com/images/board-of-directors/imagereserve/leonteq_230x280_thomas_meier.jpg","yearOfBirth":"1962"},{"identifier":"0874ec70-181a-4662-afe3-221c2cf8b38c","thumbnail":"https://www.leonteq.com/images/board-of-directors/thumbnails/120x120px_juerg_steiger.jpg","currentExternalActivities":"Juerg C. Steiger has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Apiax AG, Zurich since 2017. He is also active as a FinTech and InsureTech startup coach at Innosuisse and as a mentor at Tenity FinTech Incubator & Accelerator.","education":"Juerg Steiger holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.","nationality":"Swiss","firstElection":"2026","name":"Juerg C. Steiger","professionalBackground":"Juerg C. Steiger began his career at UBS Group, where he held various roles in Corporate Banking, Corporate Finance and Risk Management Services from 1982 to 1991, later serving as Director, Derivatives, FX Options and Structured Products from 1992 to 1997 in New York, Chicago and Zurich. From 1998 to 2010, he held senior roles at Swiss Re in Zurich, including Director, Structured Finance and Managing Director, Alternative Investments. He then joined UBS Wealth Management in Zurich, where he served as Managing Director, Alternative Investments Distribution from 2010 to 2017. Since 2018, he has been Head of a Single Family Office.","committees":[],"termExpires":"2027","imageReserve":"https://www.leonteq.com/images/board-of-directors/imagereserve/230x280_juerg_steiger.jpg","yearOfBirth":"1962"},{"identifier":"1ca90fd8-f78f-4f6c-b0cf-41622ef744c1","thumbnail":"https://www.leonteq.com/images/board-of-directors/thumbnails/leonteq_120x120px_sylvia-steinmann.jpg","currentExternalActivities":"Since 2023 Syvlia Steinmann serves as a non-executive board member at Bayerische Landesbank, Munich and since 2024 at Worldline, Paris.","education":"Sylvia Steinmann graduated from Technische Universtität Berlin with a lic.rer.pol. in Business Administration and holds a Master\u2019s of Science in\nInformation Management from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston.","nationality":"Swiss and German","firstElection":"2025","name":"Sylvia Steinmann","professionalBackground":"Sylvia Steinmann started her career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, Berlin before moving to the insurance sector where she worked for 14 years in various executive IT management roles at Swiss Re and as COO for Global IT at Zurich Insurance. From 2011 to 2016 she served as CIO at Deutsche Post DHL Global Forwarding Freight and then for two years as CIO at SYNLAB International. From 2018 to 2022 Sylvia Steinmann served as CIO & Cloud Transformation Officer at Swiss Life Switzerland.","committees":[{"chair":false,"name":"Audit and Risk Committee"}],"termExpires":"2027","imageReserve":"https://www.leonteq.com/images/board-of-directors/imagereserve/leonteq_230x280_sylvia-steinmann.jpg","yearOfBirth":"1965"}],"title":"Board of Directors","headline":"The Board of Directors today comprises six members, all of whom are non-executive directors."},"historyAndAwards":{"historyHeadline":"Since our inception in 2007, Leonteq has become one of the leading independent experts for structured investment products. Today, we employ more than 550 professionals, manage over CHF 12 billion in outstanding issued products and operate in 12 locations across Switzerland, Europe and Asia.","items":[{"year":"2007","awards":[],"historySummary":"The Start...","history":[{"date":"2007-12-01","timelineText":"Employee numbers total 35, FINMA-licensed Zurich Office of EFG Financial Products AG opened"},{"date":"2007-11-01","timelineText":"EFG Financial Products (Guernsey) Limited founded as a product issuer"},{"date":"2007-09-01","timelineText":"EFG Financial Products AG Zurich and EFG Financial Products Holding AG founded"}]},{"year":"2008","awards":[{"year":"2008","awardName":"Swiss Derivative Awards","awardList":["Best Yield Enhancement Product"]}],"historySummary":"Making The Difference...","history":[{"date":"2008-12-01","timelineText":"Opening of Geneva office; EFG Financial Products AG becomes a member of SIX"},{"date":"2008-10-01","timelineText":"EFG Financial Products AG achieves break-even"},{"date":"2008-04-01","timelineText":"First version of the Constructor launched"}]},{"year":"2009","awards":[{"year":"2009","awardName":"Swiss Derivative Awards","awardList":["2<sup>nd<\/sup> &#x22;Best Capital Protection Product&#x22;","Special Award for EFG Financial Products Product Reports"]}],"historySummary":"Expanding...","history":[{"date":"2009-10-01","timelineText":"First COSI product introduced and first Managed Futures Product (\"CTA\") issued by EFG Financial Products AG"},{"date":"2009-09-01","timelineText":"EFG Financial Products (Monaco) SAM founded"}]},{"year":"2010","awards":[{"year":"2010","awardName":"Swiss Derivative Awards","awardList":["Best Yield Enhancement Product"]}],"historySummary":"Growing...","history":[{"date":"2010-07-01","timelineText":"EFG Financial Products (Hong Kong) Limited (licensed in April 2011) founded"},{"date":"2010-02-01","timelineText":"EFG Financial Products (Europe) GmbH (licensed in October 2010) founded, headquartered in Frankfurt/Main"}]},{"year":"2011","awards":[{"year":"2011","awardName":"Zertifikate Awards","awardList":["Innovation of the Year 2011 - COSI"]},{"year":"2011","awardName":"Swiss Derivative Awards","awardList":["Best Commodity Linked Product","Top Service"]}],"historySummary":"And Growing...","history":[{"date":"2011-09-01","timelineText":"EFG Financial Products (Europe) GmbH Paris branch opened"},{"date":"2011-07-01","timelineText":"New cooperation agreed between Helvetia and EFG Financial Products AG"},{"date":"2011-07-01","timelineText":"EFG Financial Products (Europe) GmbH London branch opened"},{"date":"2011-04-01","timelineText":"Employee numbers now total 222 worldwide"}]},{"year":"2012","awards":[{"year":"2012","awardName":"Swiss Derivative Awards","awardList":["Top Service","Best Market Maker Investment Products","Best Precious Metal Product"]},{"year":"2012","awardName":"ECOFIN (Economía y Finanzas)","awardList":["Most Innovative Financial Product, 2012"]},{"year":"2012","awardName":"Zertifikate Awards Austria","awardList":["Ranked 2<sup>nd<\/sup> for Index- &amp; 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With our long-term vision, we are also committed to economic, environmental and social sustainability, and we have built our social responsibility framework from these principles, which we see as integral factors in determining the success of our business. \n\nAs a way of giving back and supporting our community, stakeholders and society at large, our social responsibility and sponsorship initiatives focus on inspiring and creating a healthier community for our youth."},"executiveCommittee":{"personnelList":[{"identifier":"cbbfda25-9d3d-48d7-92d4-600be6c3956d","thumbnail":"https://www.leonteq.com/images/ec/leonteq_120x120_christian_spieler.jpg","education":"Christian Spieler studied Economics and Mathematics at University of Frankfurt, UCLA, Stanford University and UC Berkeley and obtained a Master\u2019s degree in Economics from the University of Bonn.","nationality":"German","name":"Christian Spieler","professionalBackground":"Christian Spieler started his career working in various derivatives roles at JP Morgan, where he advanced to senior leadership positions with responsibility for the DACH region. 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Not only have the construction freezes imposed by the US government on several wind farms been overturned by the courts, but the expansion of renewable energy sources is advancing worldwide.","image":"https://www.leonteq.com/images/news/investment-themes/renewable_energy_april2026_leonteq-structured-products_corporate+homepage.jpg","routerLink":"/news-and-media/news/investment-themes/2026/green-energy-indices","category":"Investment Theme","headline":"Renewable energy: the future belongs to renewables"},{"date":"2026-03-27T00:00","summary":"A special event will be held in the \u201cPalacete Virtvs\u201d in the heart of Lisbon on 21 April, when the International Copper Study Group (ICSG) holds a reception in the 19th century neoclassical building. This will give guests an opportunity to look back on the first day of the ICSG\u2019s spring conference. There will be no shortage of things for the representatives from politics and the mining industry to talk about, given that the global copper market is once again exposed to extreme influences. Hardly had the turmoil caused by trade policy in general, and the tariff dispute between the USA and China in particular, begun to subside than the war in the Middle East threw up new concerns.","image":"https://www.leonteq.com/images/news/investment-themes/copper2026_leonteq-structured-products_corporate+homepage.jpg","routerLink":"/news-and-media/news/investment-themes/2026/etp-copper","category":"Investment Theme","headline":"Copper: an indispensable metal"},{"date":"2026-03-13T00:00","summary":"Once again the world is looking with alarm towards the Middle East. On the morning of 28 February, Israel and the USA launched an assault on Iran. The attacks cost the lives of the spiritual leader, Ali Khameini, and other high-ranking politicians and military commanders of the country. Iran responded with rocket and drone attacks on Israel and other states in the region. Tehran simultaneously threatened to blockade the Strait of Hormuz. This brought an eye of the needle of the global economy into focus. Ships transit this narrow waterway between Iran and Oman from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman and from there to the open ocean.","image":"https://www.leonteq.com/images/news/investment-themes/oil_market_march2026_leonteq-structured-products_corporate+homepage.jpg","routerLink":"/news-and-media/news/investment-themes/2026/brent-oil-shares","category":"Investment Theme","headline":"Oil market: swollen risk premiums"},{"date":"2026-02-27T00:00","summary":"The moment when share prices last came under serious pressure was nothing like a classic \u201cshock\u201d in the old sense: no profit warning, no geopolitical upheaval, no sudden interest rate stimulus. Rather, it was the release of a tool. A new plug-in from the ecosystem of Claude, the language model of the US group Anthropic, gave an impressive demonstration of the abilities that large language models now offer.","image":"https://www.leonteq.com/images/ai_shock_leonteq-structured-products_corporate+homepage.jpg","routerLink":"/news-and-media/news/investment-themes/2026/ai-volatility","category":"Investment Theme","headline":"AI shock: Industries in disarray"},{"date":"2026-02-13T00:00","summary":"\u201cAaaaand \u2026. breathe\u201d \u2013 that could be the motto after the first five full weeks of the 2026 stock market year. All asset classes have seen sometimes sizeable movements since the turn of the year. Once again, Donald Trump provoked alarm in the world and capital markets. In particular, the US president\u2019s appearance at WEF 2026 in Davos caused shock waves. Although he tried to de-escalate the dispute about Greenland when in Graubünden, the grab for the polar island, combined with recent tariff threats, attacks on the Fed and the rapid growth of the US debt mountain, have shaken confidence in the superpower. The \u201ccollateral damage\u201d can be seen firstly in the movement of the US dollar.","image":"https://www.leonteq.com/images/news/investment-themes/saw_gold_bitcoin_leonteq-structured-products_corporate+homepage.jpg","routerLink":"/news-and-media/news/investment-themes/2026/etp-plus-on-new-saw-smartadapt-portfolios","category":"Investment Theme","headline":"Turbulent stock markets: diversification is crucial"}]}}