Boris Collardi served as CEO of Julius Baer, one of Switzerland's largest private banks, from 2012 to 2017. In 2017, Epstein brokered secret merger and acquisition talks between Collardi and Ariane de Rothschild, CEO of the Edmond de Rothschild Group in Geneva. According to Inside Paradeplatz, the Swiss financial publication that broke the story in February 2026, Collardi and Julius Baer CFO Dieter Enkelmann exchanged confidential data with the Rothschild side for weeks: cost synergies, workforce reduction plans, and brand valuations.
Epstein served as the intermediary. Ehud Barak acted as Collardi's adviser in the talks. The merger talks produced no concrete result, but revealed a parallel agenda: leveraging Swiss private banking capital to fund Israeli cyberweapons startups, including offensive hacking tools and surveillance systems developed by former Unit 81 operatives. Collardi left Julius Baer in November 2017 and joined Pictet, another Geneva private bank.
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