641902 Big banks
A six-digit type of NOGA 2025, in division 64, Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding.
Where it sits
- Section
- L Financial and Insurance Activities
- Division
- 64 Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding
- Group
- 641 Monetary intermediation
- Class
- 6419 Other monetary intermediation
- Type
- 641902 Big banks
Its name in four languages
- Deutsch
- Grossbanken
- Français
- Grandes banques
- Italiano
- Grandi banche
- English
- Big banks
What it includes
- activities of big banks
- Business focus: Big banks are economically important banks, which, in principle, offer all types of business, including in particular investment banking (capital market transactions, securities trading, money market transactions, financial engineering, securities lending, consulting services for company mergers and acquisitions as well as the implementation of such operations). Big banks are part of a financial group, as defined in art. 3c of the Banking Act.
- Geographic scope of activities: The financial groups to which the big banks belong operate globally and have a network of branches and subsidiaries around the world
- Legal status: Private joint-stock companies
NOGA 2008 codes it continues
Since the switch to NOGA 2025, companies coded under these NOGA 2008 types belong under 641902, in the share the BFS measured in its business register (BUR).
| NOGA 2008 | Share moved to 641902 |
|---|---|
| 641903 | 100% |
Other codes in the same group
- 641100 Central banking
- 641901 Cantonal banks
- 641903 Regional banks and saving banks
- 641904 Raiffeisen banks
- 641905 Stock exchange banks
- 641906 Foreign-controlled banks
- 641907 Branches of foreign banks
- 641908 Private bankers
- 641909 Other banking institutions
- 641919 Other monetary intermediation n.e.c.
What a NOGA code is, and how to find a company's code
Company counts cover the 145,068 of 782,904 active companies in the commercial register that Prospex has coded so far, from their registered purpose and website, so they are a floor. Geneva is 93% coded, because its cantonal register publishes a code per company; the other cantons 11% so far. They are Prospex's codes, not the code the BFS assigns in its business register (BUR). Codes, labels and notes: Swiss Federal Statistical Office (BFS), NOGA 2025, through the I14Y interoperability platform and the KUBB coding tool.