On 31 October, a select group of people convened in the offices of a small Genevan fiduciary company located in Rue de la Corraterie, a stone's throw from the River Rhône. They included Jacques Perrot, the former president of the Banque Cantonale de Genève, and Caroline Freymond (née Berthout van Berchem), the widow of the wealth manager Eric Freymond



