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The article reports on wealth management services and the private banking industry. The discussion topics include rich peoples' demand for services, how wealth managers try to balance the cost of servicing wealthy clients with producing bank revenue, and the outlook for the private banking markets in Asia and Latin America. Competition in the wealth management sector outside the banking industry is noted.

The article looks at private banking for the wealthy in Asia as of June 2004. Asia is the new battleground for the world's private banks. But the attraction of Asia lies less in the absolute sums than in their prospective growth. Rapid economic expansion across the region is creating wealth at an astonishing pace. And more of that money is coming into the orbit of professional managers, as Asia's rich diversify from property and gold into bonds, equities and hedge funds. Unlike western clients, who are often content to invest at home, rich Asians generally demand a global service, partly because the region's financial crisis in 1997-98 taught them to spread their risks. The preponderance of family businesses in Asia creates another set of problems. All this makes private banking in Asia expensive and labour-intensive.

The article reports on the digital private banking service launched by financial services company Credit Suisse in Asia beginning with a Singapore location as of March 2015. Topics include efforts of the company to increase its focus on wealth management, implications of the digital service for the banking industry, and the availability of the service on the iPad computer. Also mentioned is the company's plan to extend the service across Asia Pacific, U.S. and European markets.

The article offers a review of private banking in Asia as of August 2014. Topics discussed include an analysis of whether the position of Singapore and Hong Kong as key locations for private banking in Asia will be challenged, the emerging presence of wealth centres interested to establish themselves in the business including Shanghai in China, and the possible unexpected benefits the ongoing crisis in Ukraine may bring to Asian wealth centres, citing the growth of Russian money flow to Asia.

The article discusses the results of the publication's first private banking survey on the views of clients in Asia about the services they are being offered. Details of the value of high net worth individuals' funds under management were asked before answering survey questions. It was found that such individuals have become more sophisticated when searching for the banks that most closely match their requirements. The survey also discovered the importance of the relationship between private banks and their clients.