Just over 500 years ago, Christopher Columbus landed in Hispaniola and the European conquest of the Americas had begun. A few years later Ponce de Leon discovered the peninsular of Florida and [...]
Introduction Last week’s article examined how Swiss private banks are courting US clients and why we believe that this strategy should be executed from inside the US and not through SEC [...]
Introduction Our last article looked at the continued strength of the US economy and why we believe financial service companies need to have a presence in the world’s most important [...]
Introduction The following is an interesting article which appeared in FinTech Futures regarding the robustness of the US economy in spite of the current trade wars. Indeed, I’ve just returned [...]
In 1996 Garry Kasparov, probably the greatest chess player of all time, was challenged by Deep Blue, an IBM supercomputer which could be considered to be one of the earliest examples of [...]
Introduction This week, Norman Alex would like to share with you an article which appeared recently in swissinfo.ch examining the impact of technology on private banks and their clients. [...]
Introduction Fintech is becoming an increasingly important sector within financial services. Whilst most companies don’t succeed, as is always the case, a limited number are beginning to [...]
Introduction Norman Alex would like to share with you an extremely interesting article which appeared in International Banker in July. The level of investments detailed in this article show how [...]
Introduction We note with interest Carl Icahn’s recent decision to relocate his investment group from New York to Miami. Norman Alex set up an office in the US six years ago because of the [...]
There has been much talk about how fintech is disrupting the traditional banking sector and how digital banks are going to render traditional banks obsolete. However it should not be overlooked [...]
