Career
In 1839 he came back to Hamburg. In 1843 Kayser and Hayn, together with their friend Kunhardt, founded a firm in Valparaíso which foundered in 1849. In the same year Kayser, Hayn & Company in Mazatlán was dissolved.
In 1846 Kayser and his business partners founded the Firm Kunhardt, Kayser & Hayn in Hamburg, which was renamed Kayser & Hayn after Kunhardt"s death in 1850.
Hayn left the firm in 1854 and the firm was known as Robert Kayser until 1865. Kayser was among the founders in 1856 of the Norddeutsche Bank and was one of its leading lights, putting up founding capital of 500.000 Marks.
He belonged to the board of Norddeutsche Bank from 1856 to 1877. From 1850 Kayser belonged to the Chamber of Commerce of which he was president in 1856.