Basler Kantonalbank has a full state guarantee of its liabilities.

In October 2012 the bank's CEO, Hans Rudolf Matter, resigned after 620 clients lost more than CHF 100 million in a scandal involving ASE investments.

[2] In 2013, Chairman Andreas Albrecht was forced to resign following the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA)'s decree that the bank had rigged sales of its own participation certificates.

[3] In 2023, Basler Kantonalbank joined the Asset Management Association Switzerland (Amas), becoming the eighth cantonal bank to support the initiative.

[4] The highest governing body of Basler Kantonalbank is the Bank Council.