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Sector Analysis
Wealth in Poland: HNW Investors; Understanding HNW investors and wealth management strategies.
The Polish HNW population is dominated by entrepreneurs who prefer to stay in control of their finances, even if they lack experience in capital markets. While they do approach wealth managers for investment advice, Polish HNW investors like to sign off most decisions regarding their portfolios. With the 2008–09 financial crisis fresh in mind, they focus on low-risk products which do not offer high margins to banks. Hence the main challenge for Polish competitors is developing a strong, trust-based relationship...
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Sector Analysis
Mass Affluents: Product Holding and Preferences in Singapore
Mass affluent populations around the world are growing in size, making them an increasingly important segment for financial providers. These consumers possess more financial products than average, maintain higher levels of savings and investments, and are more likely to use added-value services. This makes them an attractive and profitable segment to target.
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Analyst Opinions
Mass Affluents: Product Holding and Preferences in the UK
Mass affluent populations around the world are growing in size, making them an increasingly important segment for financial providers. These consumers possess more financial products than average, maintain higher levels of savings and investments, and are more likely to use added-value services. This makes them an attractive and profitable segment to target.
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Analyst Opinions
Summary of Brexit Forecasts
GlobalData’s “Summary of Brexit Forecasts” provides an overview of third party forecasts for the short- and long-term impact on the UK’s GDP of leaving the EU, based on different scenarios for the final settlement negotiated by the UK. It also summarizes third party forecasts for the impact on the GDP of EU member states, the US, and China. The UK’s decision to leave the EU has sparked considerable uncertainty over the short- and long-term impacts on the UK economy. In...
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Sector Analysis
Mass Affluents: Product Holding and Preferences in the UK
Mass affluent populations around the world are growing in size, making them an increasingly important segment for financial providers. These consumers possess more financial products than average, maintain higher levels of savings and investments, and are more likely to use added-value services. This makes them an attractive and profitable segment to target.
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Analyst Opinions
Mass Affluents: Channel Use in the UK
Mass affluent populations around the world are growing in size, making them an increasingly important segment for financial providers. These consumers possess more financial products than average, maintain higher levels of savings and investments, and are more likely to use added-value services. This makes them an attractive and profitable segment to target.
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Sector Analysis
Mass Affluents: Channel Use in Australia
Australian mass affluents skew towards the older ages, and thus are slightly more conservative when it comes to digital advancement in banking. Although they fully utilize the online channel they are not yet embracing mobile as much as the retail segment. This will change, however, and authorized deposit-taking institutions need to be ready for this with apps that can accommodate them. This consumer segment is very much comfortable with the online channel (it is the one they find most convenient)...
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Analyst Opinions
Mass Affluents: Attitudes and Needs in Singapore
Mass affluent populations around the world are growing in size, making them an increasingly important segment for financial providers. These consumers possess more financial products than average, maintain higher levels of savings and investments, and are more likely to use added-value services. This makes them an attractive and profitable segment to target.
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Sector Analysis
Mass Affluents in China: Product Holding and Preferences
Mass affluent populations around the world are growing in size, making them an increasingly important segment for financial providers. These consumers possess more financial products than average, maintain higher levels of savings and investments, and are more likely to use added-value services. This makes them an attractive and profitable segment to target.
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Analyst Opinions
Open API Banking: Defining the Potential and Opportunities; Strategies for a world of open banking
Regulatory and technological developments are pushing banks in Europe and the UK to open up access to their systems and data via the use of application programming interfaces (APIs). If banks embrace the concept, they will be able to become one-stop shops for the best products on the market, crowdsource the development of new services, and generate revenue by selling access to their data and capabilities.