Last week, 11 banks, including some of the largest global players, have agreed to pay more than USD 1.8 billion in fines over charges of failures in record-keeping practices and what the US regulator SEC called “pervasive off-channel communications”.

Traditionally, large asset managers offer their products through a B2B partner network. The industry is now moving towards serving investors directly, without intermediaries, through digital channels. How can financial institutions efficiently expand digital investment advice to new client segments?

In the second article of this series, we took a close look at the unique expectations that affluent people in the GBA (Greater Bay Area) have for their banks and wealth management firms and found that they are a complex mixture of the traditional and the modern. We now turn our attention to how executives targeting this market can manage to meet these demands profitably.

In the first article of this series, we looked at the vast scale of wealth creation taking place in the GBA (Greater Bay Area), and at some of Avaloq’s proprietary research that indicates how large the opportunity is for banks and wealth management firms to serve the people driving this growth.

The Chinese government has repeatedly demonstrated its commitment to enhancing trading integration and market fluidity across the Greater Bay Area (GBA). Both have proven to be key to the region’s economic development as it continues to evolve into a global hub for technical and industrial innovation.

See how AI models and the regulation around them have evolved, and learn how financial organizations can ensure the use of a more ethical, unbiased AI system.