Future Trends

Strategic Choice Must Drive Online Presences

Over the last two years or so we have published a host of reports analyzing, comparing, benchmarking and ranking the mobile apps, social media and websites of global players in the banking and wealth management industry. We have found a few excellent offerings but, at the same time, we have found way too many poor ones. Most banks just don’t have a clear vision for the WHY, WHAT and HOW of their social and mobile strategies.... more

Our Top10 Lists: Websites, Social Media, Mobile Apps

Get access for free to our rankings of the Top 10 banks in our latest reports of wealth management websites, social media presences (wealth management, banking) and mobile apps.... more

MyPrivateBanking Research Brief

Private Banking Clients Should Avoid Internet IPOs

Private investors should be skeptical about investing in the new wave of initial public offerings (IPOs) for internet companies’ stocks. This is the main conclusion of new research by MyPrivateBanking, for which we compared the main players, mechanisms and results of the late 1990s/early 2000s dot-com bubble with the newly developing wave of Internet IPOs... more

Comment by Steffen Binder, Research Director

Talk to a private banker about the Internet and the usual response is a shrug of the shoulders. Dig a bit deeper and you hear that wealthy clients are too conservative, too cautious or too old to use the Internet... more