to develop, manufacture or acquire in any other way, sell, export, trade, negotiate, distribute, promote all kinds of financial products, means of payment, hardware or software, as well as all kinds of raw materials, equipment, machines, devices, tools, instruments and other products used in the context of one or more of the aforementioned products, as well as in the fields of telecommunications and computer science (software, applications and databases); to carry out scientific research and development commissioned by third parties in Switzerland and abroad or on its own account, and to commercialize and promote the results of this research and development (cf. statutes for full purpose).