Understanding clients' issues and offering them solutions is key to making headway in the family office field, believes Ahmed Husain from Lombard Odier Investment Managers

The top private banks are all competing for the attentions of just a few thousand wealthy families, reveals Citi CEO Luigi Pigorini, whose bank has found success by targeting the upper echelons of that group

Optimism is running high in both the political and financial systems in France, says Société Générale’s private banking supremo Jean-Francois Mazaud

Swiss institutions have successfully managed the move to banking transparency, believes Yves Mirabaud, but being outside the EU continues to pose problems for the country’s financial industry

Paloma Piqueras, head of  BBVA Asset Management, explains how technology is central to boosting client relationships, but admits getting conservative Spanish investors to take on more risk can be a challenge 

Gina Miller’s legal challenge against the government’s handling of Brexit has come at a heavy cost to her personally and the SCM Private firm she runs with her husband

The transformation of Indosuez Wealth Management, which has become the global wealth management brand of the Crédit Agricole group, has meant reducing AuM and streamlining its offering, but the result is a more nimble bank better suited to the new era of private banking, believes CEO Paul de Leusse

With Coutts now firmly concentrating on its core UK market, the challenge for chief executive Peter Flavel is getting its existing clients to do more with the bank