Global Report: Little Progress in the Evolution of Mobile Apps for Banking
Only a small number of leading retail banks have made significant progress in their mobile app offerings since last year’s report. The winners of the MyPrivateBanking 2014 ranking are DBS Bank (Singapore) and BNP Paribas (France). Runners up are UBS (Switzerland) and Westpac (Australia). As... - May 11, 2014
New MyPrivateBanking Research Report: Global Benchmarking of Banking Apps – a Few Excellent, Majority Still Offering Users Only Basics
DBS and Capital One offer the best mobile apps; Société Générale, ABN AMRO and Westpac in Top 5 - April 12, 2013
New Report: Mobile Apps for Financial Advisors Revolutionizing Client Interaction in Wealth Management
Mobile Solutions Rapidly Becoming an Industry Disruptive Force, Improving Wealth Management Process Substantially - March 18, 2013
New Report: Wealth Managers Lacking Social Media Strategy
Individual presences getting better but only 20% of wealth managers have a systematic approach - Charles Schwab, Deutsche Bank and Coutts Top Ranking - December 01, 2012
New MyPrivateBanking Report: Wealth Managers' Websites Still Don't Win Clients
An independent benchmarking of the websites of 40 leading wealth managers and private banks found that the overall quality in respect to content and social media integration still disappoints. The best websites are offered by ABN AMRO, UBS and RBC. The analysts of MyPrivateBanking recommend stand-alone platform exclusively for wealth management clients and extensive disclosure of hard data to satisfy the client needs. - October 05, 2012
MyPrivateBanking Global Banking Survey: Banks Should Invest More in Facebook
Banks’ communication weak on Facebook - LinkedIn most popular and best maintained social media platform. - June 17, 2012
MyPrivateBanking Report: Most Banks Struggle with Social Media
In a global ranking of the social media presences of the world’s top 50 banks Citibank comes out as winner, but two-thirds of the surveyed banks still fail to grasp the opportunities of social media such as Facebook and Twitter. - April 25, 2012
New Report: Global Banks Offer Surprisingly Few Good Apps for Mobile Banking
A new study by MyPrivateBanking Research comes to the conclusion that the majority of mobile apps by the world's leading bank showed shortcomings in terms of usability, content and privacy. - November 27, 2011
New Report by MyPrivateBanking Shows That Fee-Only Financial Advice is Gaining Ground in Germany
A new report by MyPrivateBanking Research reveals that fee-only financial advice isn’t very common yet. It shows also that up to now high net worth individuals are most likely to have gained experience with fee-only financial advice. But with new regulations and laws coming around in the EU, the ground will be prepared for fee-only financial advice to attract more customers. - October 14, 2010
MyPrivateBanking Offers Re-negotiation Service for Wealth Management Costs
Research by MyPrivateBanking has shown that the majority of clients lack the experience, time and knowledge to reduce their wealth management costs significantly. A new service offered by MyPrivateBanking assists clients of wealth managers by fully exploiting their scope for cost reduction and re-negotiation of their fees. - July 10, 2010
New Report: How to Avoid Five Insidious Risks of ETF Investing
MyPrivateBanking Research published a new guide on the risks and negative side-effects of ETFs. ETFs became very popular nevertheless clients should be aware of certain risks. - June 16, 2010
Wealthy Clients in Germany Threaten to Switch Banks
A new study by MyPrivateBanking shows that over 40% of wealthy private clients consider changing banks. Clients of small/medium private banks and direct banks are highly satisfied. - May 20, 2010
Privacy Vulnerable on Private Banking Websites Finds MyPrivateBanking Survey
A recent survey of MyPrivateBanking Research showed that most Private Banking Websites do not offer a safe data transmission. The survey included 195 websites in the 17 most important banking markets. - March 09, 2010
Global Ranking: UBS, Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse Have Best Private Banking Websites
A new study by MyPrivateBanking.com comes to the conclusion that the majority of Wealth Managers showed shortcomings on their websites in terms of usability, content and privacy. - December 24, 2009
Five Crucial Steps to Find the Right Wealth Manager
By following a systematic five step process private investors can identify the right wealth manager for their specific needs as detailed in the new MyPrivateBanking.com guide “Choosing the Right Wealth Managers.” - November 20, 2009
Most Equity Funds of Wealth Managers Disappoint
The equity fund returns of the 15 biggest wealth managers and banks worldwide are mostly worse than the respective benchmark indices. During the last 5 years about 80% of the funds have returned below average returns and only funds from Deutsche Bank (DWS), Black Rock and Lombard Odier outperformed the benchmark indices. - October 13, 2009
New Guide: How Clients Can Cut Costs of Wealth Management
Clients of investment advisors and private banks often pay too much for their asset management. Those costs should not exceed 1% of the invested asset. Nevertheless intransparent pricing models make it difficult for clients to identify possibilities to cut costs. The free guide of MyPrivateBanking.com explains the cost drivers and pricing models of distributors of investment products and how clients can cut costs of asset management by rather simple means. - September 30, 2009
Largest Independent Information and Evaluation Database of Wealth Managers Now Online
MyPrivateBanking.com has created the largest free online database of private banks and wealth managers from across the world. Detailed data on more than 500 providers from 60 countries plus ratings allow clients an easier search and selection. - September 12, 2009