page_title: Bank Lombard Odier & Co
section_title: Historical collaborations (1840–1933)
hierarchical_section_title: Bank Lombard Odier & Co / History / Historical collaborations (1840–1933)
caption_attribution_description: English: Lombard Odier HQ at 4 boulevard du Théâtre, Geneva, 1918.
context_page_description: The Lombard Odier Group is an independent Swiss banking group based in Geneva. Its operations are organised into three divisions: private banking, asset management, and back and middle office services for other financial institutions.
  At the end of 2018, the bank reported outstanding balances managed through these three divisions totalling CHF 259 billion in managed assets, which makes it one of the biggest players in the Swiss private banking sector.
  The group was formed in 2002, as Lombard, Odier, Darier, Hentsch & Cie, by the fusion of Lombard, Odier & Cie and Darier, Hentsch & Cie.
  As the latter was originally founded in 1796, the group has a claim to being the oldest private bank in Geneva.
  The company name was simplified to Lombard Odier Group in 2010, although the firm continues to include on its official logo the names of the four founding partners.
  Since 2014, the bank has held the status of Limited Liability Company. The Lombard Odier Group is a legal holding company under Swiss law, bearing the name Lombard Odier Company SCmA since 2016.
context_section_description: Throughout their independent existence, the banks Lombard, Odier & Cie, Hentsch & Cie, and Darier & Cie were led to collaborate several times. In 1840, at a time when the Industrial Revolution needed large scale funding but wasn't able to be insured by a single financial firm, the banks Lombard, Odier & Cie, Hentsch & Cie, Candolle  Turrettini & Cie, and Louis Pictet & Cie partnered together to form the 'Quatuor', which invested particularly in European railways, in the mines in the Loire Valley region of France, and even in Piedmont loans. In 1872, Quatuor merged with Omnium, another private banking association in Geneva founded in 1849, regrouping Paccard, Ador & Cie,  P.F. Bonna & Cie, as well as Ph. Roget & Fils. Together, these firms partnered with the new Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas to create the Finance Association of Geneva, with the aim of collecting enough capital to conduct financial operations in Switzerland and abroad. 
  Following this, the Financial Union of Geneva was created in 1890, coming out of the merger of the Financial Association of Geneva, and the railways bank La Banque Nouvelle des Chemins de Fer.  The financial union, starting out with CHF 12 million in capital, consolidated twelve private banks including Hentsch & Cie, Lombard, Odier & Cie and Darier & Cie. It also played an important role in the world of Genevan finance from 1890 to 1933, in funding large infrastructure projects in Europe and the US.
  According to Bauer and Mottet (1986), this collaboration between Genevan private banks would be at the heart of their sustainability.
caption: Lombard Odier HQ at 4 boulevard du Théâtre in Geneva (1918)
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