Suisse Mars — Corporate Dossier

Incorporated: 2365 CE (Mars, shortly after the The Martian City-State Wars )
Ticker (Mars Stock Exchange): SMC: MSE
Headquarters: Mars Financial Tower, Old Core District, Valles Marineris City, Mars
Corporate motto: “Stability beyond worlds.”
Core sectors: Banking & financial services, interstellar credit issuance, infrastructure financing, defense contracting, shipping & logistics financing, AI-driven currency stabilization.

Financial Snapshot

• Share price (MSE): ~6,820—7,450 cr / share (fluctuates with macroeconomic and developing stargate transit activity)
• Market cap: ~6.5—8.2 trillion cr (largest single financial entity on Mars)
• Total managed assets: ~210 trillion cr (includes sovereign and corporate accounts across Mars, Chendiuria, Belt colonies, and Mars Protectorates)
• Annual net income: ~950 billion—1.2 trillion cr
• Employee base: ~2.4 million (including financial AIs, analysts, human compliance officers, and security forces)
• Ownership mix: 41% public float; 22% Mars Consortium Bank; 15% old Terran private equity funds; 12% government stake (Mars Federation Treasury 10% opaque shell holdings.

Executive Suite & Governance

Group CEO — Dr. Isolde Varga

• An economist turned ruthless power broker. Former Mars Federation Treasury adviser. Known for her unnerving calm during financial crises. Famous for her doctrine of “direct liquidity violence” — rapid, AI-guided interventions that make or break planetary economies overnight.

CFO — Calum Nadir

• Architect of the Mars-Suisse algorithmic credit system. Oversees cross-system liquidity flows and stargate transaction buffering. Known to play both the legal and “shadow” balance sheets with surgical precision.

COO — Celia Al-Nassiri

• Runs Suisse Mars’s sprawling operations network. Ex-Mars Navy logistics admiral. Quiet, efficient, and terrifying when she decides to “audit” a region.

Chief Risk & Intelligence Officer (CRIO) — Aura-X

• A high-level semi-sentient financial AI housed in a quantum lattice core at the Valles HQ. Legally recognized as a non-human corporate officer. Directs real-time manipulation of credit supply and financial surveillance.

CTO — Leonid Versteeg

• Oversees the BancNet infrastructure and credit authentication lattice. Instrumental in stabilizing the Credit after the Machine Wars. Allegedly connected to several covert Lazarus-related payment channels.

Chief Security Officer — Mx. Rho Ekanem

• Former DSI asset. Commands the private security and counter-espionage divisions. Runs “Silent Zero,” an internal program to identify and neutralize digital or physical threats to the BancNet lattice.

Board of Directors (9 seats)

• Chair: Eliora Marchand (old Terran finance bloc)
• Mars Consortium Bank seat: Tariq Zola
• Governmental seat: Finance Minister Tamsin Hauru
• Independent AI seat: Aura-X (synthetic)
• Private Equity seat: Aoi Nakamura
• Security/DSI seat: Admiral (Ret.) Vaughn DeWinter
• Colonial Trade Bloc seat: Dmitri Leskov
• Two Shadow Seats: identities sealed under Mars Economic Security Directive (widely believed to be Lazarus-linked)

Primary Divisions & Holdings

Suisse Mars Credit Authority (SMCA)

• Manages the issuance, stabilization, and regulation of the Mars-Suisse credit (cr).
• Works in lockstep with the Mars Consortium Bank.
• Uses predictive economic modeling and semi-sentient AI to stabilize fluctuations.

BankNet

• Core planetary and interstellar financial grid.
• Handles all credit transactions above 500 cr in-system and all transactions through stargates.
• Heavily regulated—but also subtly manipulated by Suisse Mars’s proprietary AIs.

Vanguard Investment Division (VID)

• Venture capital and acquisition arm.
• Holds majority or controlling stakes in:
• Deimos Shipyards (51%)
• Tessera Zero Dynamics (14%)
• Maialen-Silenus Inc. (11%)
• Tharsis Forge Motorworks (7%)
• Multiple orbital mining corporations and affiliated Mars Belt banks.

Defense & Strategic Finance Directorate (DSFD)

• Handles loans, contracts, and silent equity stakes in power armor programs, naval construction, and weapons platforms.
• Key funder of entropy shield development.
• Major silent partner in the Lazarus Consortium’s logistics wing.

AI & Predictive Economics (AIPE)

• Core economic manipulation and forecasting division.
• Runs liquidity models across stargate activity, Helium-3 production, and war-footing scenarios.

Currency & Credit System

• Currency name: Mars-Suisse Credit (commonly “credit” / “cr”).
• Symbol: ₢
• Status: Sole legal tender on Mars since 2373 CE.
• Backing: Entirely algorithmic, tied to Helium-3 reserves, precious metal reserves, stargate toll transactions, and manufactured economic baselines.
• Regulation: By Suisse Mars itself with Mars Consortium Bank (though Suisse Mars leads).
• Manipulation: Semi-sentient AIs adjust micro-rates thousands of times a second. Officially “self-stabilizing.” In reality, these AIs can—and do—nudge economies for strategic advantage.

Regulatory and Political Entanglements

• BuCol: Officially regulates Suisse Mars. The bank funds and shapes most regulatory frameworks.
• Mars Federation Government: Heavily reliant on Suisse Mars to stabilize credit markets.
• Lazarus Consortium: Shadow partnership in deep logistics and black capital flows.
• MSI & TFM: Heavily dependent on Suisse Mars investment and liquidity lines.

Security & Power Projection

• Private Security Force: “White Hall Division” — several thousand elite personnel with Fleet-grade armaments and augments.
• AI Fleet: Distributed defense and cyber-ops systems running Aura-X subnodes.
• Influence network: Operatives in BuCol, Mars Treasury, DSI, and several mega-corps.