Growth of Asian Market and The Foreign Banks -2

To be effective, it must decide which customer segments used in priority, identifying those with critical size enabling it to recoup its costs and commercial structure including compliance. Segmentation can be based on criteria level of wealth (affluent, HNWI, UHNW individuals), the nationality of the customer (onshore vs. offshore) of origin of the fortune (inherited vs. built).... To gain a foothold in the Asian market, European banks may for example choose to serve priority customers offshore, composed of customers 'Western' wishing to invest in Asian markets. Once established brand and the breakeven point is reached, they can explore the opportunity to develop their offer to the onshore market to take advantage of its growth potential. Along with this customer segmentation, banks must be able to provide services to both heritage and professionals to cover all customer needs.

 This is the strategy chosen by most of the Wealth Management companies and has implemented procedures for cooperation between its teams Corporate Investment Bank and Wealth Management Asia able to better serve its customers easy. The customer has one contact for all of his professional and private issues. Beyond the added value to its customers, this cooperation allows commercial expansion through effective cross-selling. A client passes to sell his company will benefit from the expertise of the investment bank while new cash from this sale will be managed by the private bank. This type of organization seems particularly suited to the Asian market. Finally there is the question of the mode of entry of banks in the Asian region. They must assess their strengths locally before deciding how to layout and the level of investment involved.

Have one or more business lines deployed in the region? If so, then the bank will definitely enjoy cross-selling, sharing clients or synergies information system for pooling certain fixed costs and limit the cost of customer acquisition. Otherwise, it may proceed by external acquisition targets but are now rare or even the possibility of a partnership with a local bank. Development potential of private banks in Asia is considerable. European players must be put in working order now to operate profitably. Failing recipe, everyone must identify its forces in the region to implement the business model that will allow it to serve more efficiently and at the best price a demanding clientele. The future global ranking of private banks certainly depends on their success or failure in the conquest of Asia.

Growth of Asian Market and The Foreign Banks -1

Asian customers (High Net Worth - fortune exceeding $ 1.2 million) whose assets are managed by private banks are characterized by two seemingly contradictory characteristics: they are often multi-banked (placement of their assets in three different banks in average) and require that they know their banker properly understand and analyze their needs. But this is only possible if the private banker has a panoramic view of their heritage. These paradoxes highlights a caution or distrust in the relationship between these millionaires and their private bank and draw one of the issues of private banks in Asia to win the trust of their customers so that they reveal their greater part their assets. To this is the case of the most of the Asian millionaires, who are often entrepreneurs who made their fortunes recently and still active.

 Their personal and professional heritage issues are intimately linked. A 360 ° view of the customer means not only knowing all his private fortune, but also its heritage and professional goals. This is why banks manage to take their game will be those able to offer comprehensive solutions covering both the financing needs of active professional that needs investment and transfer of private wealth. The first challenge is the recruitment, including front office positions: private bankers. To (re) establish a relationship of trust with their customers and convince them reveal all of their assets, private banks must recruit the best private bankers. There is strong demand on the part of banks, but the supply is low on the side of private bankers since the business of wealth management in Asia is still young. Private bankers represent a significant cost for the banks because they are rare and expensive to attract and retain.

To fully leverage the talents banks must redesign their business processes so that they are dedicated to the most pure and rewarding business tasks at the expense of more administrative tasks or support. The second challenge is that of customer segmentation to provide highly personalized services but profitable for the bank. The conclusion is that a bank cannot profitably serve all customer segments with a special offer.

Growth of Asian Market

Since from the middle of 2011, Asia was the front and foremost region in the world that have many number of millionaires (3.37 million millionaires, representing 30.4% of the number of millionaires in the world) with a growth of more than 20% in four or five years. They have a total wealth of 10 700 billion that is 25.5% of the overall wealth of millionaires in the world.

 In a market asset management generally quite gloomy figure of Asia is essential for growth for the major international private banks. In the longer term, the Asian continent is undoubtedly the one that produces the most wealth and hence the most millionaires. According to industry professionals, the rapid growth of wealth is expected to continue at a rate of more than 12 to 15% over the next 5 years. To successfully lead the conquest of this Eldorado gold, banks need to understand the specificity of this market.

 They must also define a profitable business model focused on customer segmentation adapted. Finally, they must analyze their strengths and weaknesses in the region to determine how to implement cost. On the one hand the onshore market, with millionaires Asian (Chinese, Indians) who made their fortune because of the considerable economic development in the region in recent past. This market is doubly exciting because at the growing number of millionaires adds their current low supported by private banks (only 20% of Asian millionaires are entrusted to private banks). To conquer the market is considerable. On the other hand the offshore market, with a clientele composed of customers in Europe, America and the Middle East who wish to outsource all or part of their holdings to access attractive Asian markets or to enjoy banking regulations and tax more conciliatory in this part of the world. For this reason Singapore is poised to dethrone Switzerland in her role as a global financial center offshore.