Un onboarding plus supportable grâce à la technologie et à la DNB

Beaucoup de paperasserie, des questions difficiles sur l’origine des actifs, de longs délais d’attente pour l’ouverture d’un compte… Pour les clients des institutions financières, y compris les banques privées, les nombreux contrôles ont constitué une source majeure de frustration au cours de la dernière décennie. Mais la situation est en train de changer, grâce à une vague d’automatisation et de numérisation, ainsi qu’à une attitude moins rigide de la part de la Nederlandsche Bank.

Active ETFs gain popularity among fund selectors

More than two thirds of fund selectors see active fund management as key to outperforming in the current year, a reflection of its growing importance in uncertain markets, the latest Natixis 2024 Fund Selector Outlook Survey shows.

The survey uncovered a strategic pivot among wealth managers, who over the past decade have largely favoured passively managed index funds. However, 45% of fund selectors attribute the outperformance of passive investments to a decade of artificially low interest rates and minimal inflation, conditions that are changing. 

Sarasin, Capital cautiously navigate transition to lower rates

Investment specialists are singing from a common hymn book in predicting the world is on a path to lower inflation and treasury yields, though they carefully call attention to possible transitional effects, Investment Officer heard while covering two recent investment events in Luxembourg hosted by J. Safra Sarasin and Capital Group.

Quintet’s InsingerGilissen sees scope to take a bit more risk

In an uncertain geopolitical and macroeconomic environment, Iris van de Looij has recently taken charge of investment teams at InsingerGilissen, Quintet’s private bank in the Netherlands. The bank is currently in a slightly defensive mode, but sees scope to add some more risk to its portfolio again. 

Bâle III exacerbe la concurrence entre les banques et le crédit privé

Alors que Wall Street met tout en œuvre pour contenir le « Basel III Endgame », les nouvelles règles placent les prêteurs privés en pole position. Le prix auquel les grandes banques américaines peuvent prêter de l’argent sera habilement sapé par les fonds de crédit privés, mais les détracteurs dénoncent le manque de supervision efficace de ces « non-banques ».

Quintet names HSBC’s Christine Lynch as Chief Risk Officer 

Christine Lynch has been appointed as Group Chief Risk Officer at Luxembourg-headquartered Quintet Private Bank. She joins from HSBC, where she served for over 25 years, most recently as chief risk officer wholesale and as head of enterprise risk.

Lynch will also be a member of Quintet’s Authorized Management Committee, subject to regulatory approval. She succeeds Philip Tremble, who retired last year following more than four decades in banking.