Asian private banks are lagging behind their wealthy clients in adopting digital technologies like mobile and social media for wealth management. To effectively serve clients in the digital age, banks need to create a holistic digital strategy, manage organizational change, and deploy digital technologies to empower customer targeting, enhance the customer experience, and improve operational efficiencies. This will allow banks to deliver meaningful, high-value advice to clients through a balanced approach of technology-enabled and high-touch personal services.

1. Asian Private Banks:
How to Embrace Digital Transformation
As Asian investors increasingly use social, mobile and analytics
technologies for their wealth management needs, private
banks must take a digital approach to more effectively deliver
meaningful, high-value-adding interactions and tailored advice.
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Executive Summary
Wealthy clients in Asia are actively using digital
tools and are expected to rely more on them in
the coming years for their wealth management
needs. However, private banks in Asia continue
to lag behind their clients in adopting digital
technologies, especially social media and mobile.
On the internal front, they face challenges from
information silos, a dearth of skilled employees,
fragmented operations and legacy systems.
Externally, they face regulatory restrictions and
threats from lean startups and non-banking firms.
Banks’ revenues and margins are also being
adversely affected by rising regulatory burdens,
talent shortages, increasing client acquisition and
servicing costs, and low advisor productivity.
To deliver meaningful, high-value advice to clients,
banks need to gear up for their digital odyssey by
taking the following steps:
• Create a holistic digital banking strategy:
Banks embarking on a digital transforma-tion
should clearly define their objectives
and create a holistic digital banking strategy
to achieve them. Banks should evaluate their
current maturity and readiness levels to build
a digitally-enabled business and leverage exist-ing
systems. They also need to strike the right
balance between technology and high-touch
advisor services to create a model in which
both of these service delivery channels symbi-otically
supplement each other.
• Manage change: To ensure the success of a
digital transformation initiative, banks should
manage change and address employees’
concerns about such initiatives.
• Derive value by deploying digital. This can
happen in a nuber of ways.
» Digital-empowered targeting: Banks should
tap into the potential of social, mobility and
analytics to differentiate their value propo-sition.
By using digital technologies, they
can understand and target their customers
accurately with customized products and
services that can be delivered anytime and
anywhere.
» Enhanced customer experience: A unified
view of their clients can help private banks
spot up-sell and cross-sell opportunities.
Banks should leverage their technology plat-forms
and use the digital information that
customers generate through their online
interactions and transactions (what we call
a Code Halo™) to deliver unique and cus-tomized
experiences to clients at every
touchpoint.1
» Improved efficiencies: Banks should invest
in a robust infrastructure, digital technolo-gies
and process automation to effectively
engage with customers on digital channels
and improve efficiencies.
Why Asian Private Banks Must
Go Digital
Online Activities of Wealthy Asian Customers
Figure 1
Source: Scorpio Partnership and Sungard
5.3
4.1
3.7
3.3
2.3 2.1
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
Banking &
Investments
News Social Media General
Research
Online
Purchasing
Gaming
Hours per Week
Investor Reliance on Digital Wealth
Management Tools
Asia’s wealthy are active users of digital technolo-gies
(see Figure 1). On a weekly basis, they spend
an average of four hours each on instant mes-saging
and social media channels (see Figure 2,
next page).2 Many use digital technologies and

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channels to track and educate themselves about
wealth management and to select advisers based
on online ratings and reviews. Over the next
five years, wealthy clients in Asia are expected
to increase their use of digital communications
(see Figure 3).3
According to a 2014 Futurewealth Report, 92%
of the 3,025 wealthy investors surveyed4 world-wide
were going online to learn about and
support their wealth management transactions
and decisions.5 For instance, clients reviewed
portfolios, checked performance analyses, read
market reviews and found securities information
on the online accounts provided by their banks.
Private Banks in Asia Lag Behind Customers
There are numerous reasons why private banks in
Asia are playing catch-up with customers who use
digital tools to manage their wealth. These include:
Asian Wealthy Are More Tech Savvy
Figure 2
Source: Scorpio Partnership
Time spent on various methods of communication each week.
The Americas Europe Asia-Pacific
Average hours per week
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
E-mail
Telephone
calls
Secure
Web portal
Social
networking
Written
communications
Instant
messaging
VOIP calls
Face-to-face
meetings
SMS/
text messages
Rising Use of Digital Communications
Figure 3
Source: Scorpio Partnership
How long do you currently spend using the following communications each week, and do you plan to use
these communications more in five years’ time?
Percentage planning to use
“much more” in five years’ time
Current
weekly
usage
E-mail
Meeting
Face-to-
Face
Telephone
Calls
Secure
Web
Portal
Social
Networking Written SMS
Instant
Messaging
VOIP
(Skype)
4.9
hours
4.5
hours
3.9
hours
3.5
hours
3.2
hours
3.0
hours
3.0
hours
2.6
hours
1.9
hours
56% 36% 40% 46% 47% 28% 40% 44% 33%
Asia Pacific
41% 24% 19% 31% 23% 17% 25% 19% 19%
Americas
33% 20% 19% 30% 22% 16% 19% 19% 28%
Europe

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• Slow adoption of mobile and social media:
We studied 21 top private banks operating in
Asia. Of these, three-fourths do not offer a
full-fledged mobile wealth management
app to their clients. Of the 50 leading global
private banks surveyed by Assetinum in 2012,
only 22 had a smartphone-optimized Web site,
while 14 banks did not have a mobile app.6
According to a Wealth Briefing report, in 2013
a significant percentage of institutions glob-ally
did not offer mobile apps and social media
channels to help clients communicate and
transact. This, however, is expected to improve
in the next three years (see Figure 4).7
• Internal challenges:
» Skills: With a dearth of skilled analysts,
private banks are struggling to derive
meaningful insights from client data. In a
CEB survey, 60% of respondents said it was
important to organize data for decision-making
and actionable business analytics,
but only 36% believed their organizations
had the ability to do so.8
» Organizational structure: The organiza-tional
structure at most banks results in
information silos, with each group owning
and mining its own data sets. With many
firms lacking a central team with a mandate
to run digital technologies across silos,
they fail to leverage the true inferential and
predictive powers of digital technologies.
» Fragmented operations: Many firms’
functional systems architecture lacks
standardization, proper integration and
consistent firm-level semantics. Combined
with a lack of a strategic vision for manag-ing
IT, this results in IT teams implementing
tactical fixes without resolving the underly-ing
issues.
» Regulatory restrictions: In a study by DST
Global Solutions,9 34% of respondents said
a key concern was managing cross-border
data to properly classify clients to com-ply
with cross-border rules. Further, 42%
of respondents said a major challenge for
managing client data was complying with
regulatory restrictions to safeguard client
data when moving across regions.10
» Legacy systems: The pervasiveness of
legacy systems and low-technology chan-nels
makes it difficult for banks to meet
compliance requirements and service
clients efficiently. Banks also find it difficult
to integrate the real-time nature of mobile
and online services with their legacy,
back-end core systems.
Digital Revolution Underway
Figure 4
Source: Wealth Briefing
Note: Respondent base includes chief technology officers of firms that cover major wealth management
markets and together have over $1 trillion of assets under management. Percent of Institutions
0
20
40
60
80
100
Institutions that enable clients to
transact business or issue instructions
through digital channels now and in
three years’ time.
Institutions that offer clients digital
channels for communication purposes/
access to portfolio information now
and in three years’ time.
2013 2016 2013 2016 2013 2016 2013 2016 2013 2016 2013 2016
Dedicated Web site Dedicated smartphone/tablet/PC application
Social media (Twitter, Facebook, etc.)

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• Need to overhaul existing infrastructure: In
many cases, poor investment data practices and
information silos leave banks with incomplete
and fragmented client and investment data.
This makes it difficult for banks to decipher
and understand customer portfolios. Banks will
also find it difficult to meet the rising demand
for an integrated and online client experi-ence
unless they overhaul their infrastructure
(see Figure 5).
prerequisite for clients in the digital age. Industry
executives cite industrializing11 the advisory pro-cess
and automating back-end processing and
compliance solutions as top priorities for their
wealth management platforms (see Figure 6).
Use cases for industrializing the advisory process
include:
» Streamlining the client onboarding process
to avoid multiple data entries.
» Automating risk and suitability assess-ments
when clients order a specific product.
» Sending targeted product information or
investment ideas to clients based on their
suitability and risk profile.
» Generating a unified reporting view across
multiple accounts.
• New competitors: Lean startups12 and other
non-banking firms13 have started offering
automated investment advisory services.
While they have not yet targeted the
ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) segment, they
are likely to disrupt the industry in the future.
This will put pressure on incumbent players to
invest significantly in technology just to keep
up with the new entrants.
• Cost pressures from rising customer
acquisition and servicing costs. Banks face
increasing costs of acquiring and retaining
high-net-worth (HNW) clients in Asia who have
relationships with multiple banks.14 Similarly,
the cost of acquiring and retaining talent is
Business Priorities of Asian
Wealth Advisors
Priority Level Business Activity
1 Business Intelligence
2 CRM Systems
3 Risk Management Tools
4 Financial Planning Tools
5 Recruitment
6 Investment Research, Market Feeds
7 Training
8 Compliance Tools
9 Portfolio Modelling Tools
10 Branding & Marketing
Source: Scorpio Partnership
Figure 5
In the absence of robust integration of the digi-tal
technology infrastructure in the front, middle
and back offices, banks will find it difficult to
achieve efficiency and seamless operations – a
Priorities for Wealth Management Platforms
Figure 6
Source: Hubbis audience sentiment poll, Asian Wealth Management Forum 2013, Singapore
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
Grow the front
office
Industrialize
advisory
processes
Back-end
processing
automation
Automate
compliance
solutions
Product
innovation
Percent of repsondents

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increasing due to a dearth of talent. Accord-ing
to McKinsey & Co., private banks’ cost to
serve clients was higher in 2011 compared with
2008–2010 due to a rise in compensation and
reduced advisor productivity, coupled with
greater client servicing requirements (see
Figure 7).15
Stringent and complex regulatory environ-ments
across Asia are driving up compli-ance
costs. Regulations such as Basel III, for
instance, hamper banks’ abilities to generate
profits using their balance sheets.16
Revenues continue to be under stress. At 80%,
the cost-to-income ratios of private banks in
Asia are among the highest in the world.17 The
margins for banks are decreasing as clients
deleverage portfolios and opt for simpler prod-ucts
to reduce risk.
• Low advisor productivity: The average
number of clients handled by Asian advisors is
86, which is higher than the global average of
50 to 60 clients.18 The inability to forge strong
relationships with clients and the lack of
access to productivity-enhancing digital tech-nologies
is making it more difficult for advisors
to capture additional client assets. Advisors in
Asia have, on average, 20% less assets under
management than those in Europe.19
Gearing Up for the Digital Odyssey
Create a Holistic Digital Banking Strategy
Digital transformation is not just about adding
new technology-enabled features or applications;
it is an entirely new business and service model.
Banks embarking on this journey should start
with well-defined objectives:
Profit Margins in Asia Under Pressure
Figure 7
Source: McKinsey Private Banking Survey
*CEE: Central and Eastern Europe
** Excluding India
Basis points (assets under management), 2011
78 83
107
78
U.S. Western
Europe
Western
Europe
CEE* Asia**
Asia**
77 83 106 84
75 84 103 88
68 90 106 99
53 59 54
67
U.S. CEE*
52 64 50 70
51 64 50 73
42 61 50 79
26 24
53
11
U.S. CEE*
25 24 56 14
21 20 53 15
26 26 56 20
Net Revenues
Operating Profit
Operating Costs
Stable
Key
Increase
Decrease
2009 levels
2008 levels
2010 levels
2011 levels
Western Asia**
Europe

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• First, banks need a long-term strategy with a
tangible digital blueprint. The digital blueprint
should be extensible, capable of adapting to
evolving changes in regulations, markets, tech-nology,
product strategy, client interactions
and engagement. It should also have a client-centric
view and specific measurable goals.
• Second, banks should have a tactical plan that
delivers immediate wins and addresses client
and internal demands, while helping the bank
establish its digital presence. Banks should
also develop product, pricing and servicing
strategies (utilizing digital technologies) to
meet the needs of every client segment.
• Third, banks should evaluate their current
maturity and readiness and focus on how best
they can leverage their existing systems to build
a digitally-enabled architecture and business.
Digital transformation is not about replacing
the high touch that associates currently deliver
with digital tools and technologies. Instead,
banks need to balance technology and touch to
create a model in which both approaches
symbiotically supplement each other. Banks can
combine personal client relationships with technol-ogy-
enabled services to deliver collaborative and
virtually enriched relationships. This will help
banks serve clients with a tailored combination of
traditional and digital banking services and offers.
The agility and ability of banks to adopt processes
and technologies will be vital to building a digi-tally
enabled architecture.
Banks must redefine their
value proposition to clients
by using technology to
manage and simplify the
complexity of their wealth
management offerings.
They should build capabili-ties
to efficiently segment
and target key customer
groups with tailored products using efficient
distribution strategies.
To succeed, private banks should fundamentally
shift their mindset and focus from selling prod-ucts
to servicing clients. The strategy should
include a long-term view and commitment as
most digital transformation initiatives are multi-year
undertakings. (For more on building a road-map
for a digital transformation initiative, read
our report, “Digital Banking: Enhancing Customer
Experience; Generating Long-Term Loyalty.”)
Manage Change to Ease Transformation
Managing change is essential to the success of a
digital transformation initiative. To start with, top
management should exhibit strong leadership
to drive change across the organization. Private
banks should take steps to effectively address any
concerns or resistance that advisors might have
about digital transformation initiatives by set-ting
up multiple channels of communication and
digital banking champions.
To allay advisor concerns of being disinterme-diated
by digital tools and self-service digital
channels, organizations should deploy digi-tal
technologies to handle non-value-adding
activities such as administrative tasks, scan-ning
documents, sharing client information with
back-end systems and document management.
This will save advisors time and provide uni-fied
views of customers for them to deliver tai-lored
advice. Banks should then focus on helping
advisors use the extra time and digital tools
effectively and deepen their relationships with cli-ents,
which will likely result in increased revenues.
The reallocation and realignment of traditional
responsibilities among departments will require
a major design effort. Digital transformation
initiatives usually involve significant cost and
effort, as well as a potential re-engineering
of systems and processes. Banks should take
this into account and carefully redesign their
processes and operations to support seamless
omni-channel experiences.
Derive Value
Analytics, big data, mobile and social media can
help banks develop a granular understanding
of their customers and deliver differentiated,
value-adding services to them.
• Offer personalized products and services:
Banks can use the advanced information
aggregation and predictive capabilities of
analytics to study market trends, correla-tions,
factor analysis and “what-if” scenarios
that can forecast fund performance. They can
also anticipate changes in market conditions,
client preferences and cross-selling oppor-tunities.
Banks can use analytics to study
clients’ investment strategies and returns
and select the best of these to generate highly
To succeed, private
banks should
fundamentally
shift their mindset
and focus from
selling products to
servicing clients.

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personalized offers and information.20 They
can deploy analytics to identify what custom-ers
need, such as in-depth analysis that is rele-vant
to their investment portfolio and tailored
to meet their risk appetite. Delivering this kind
of service in real-time to the right clients can
become a strong selling point for banks.
Consider Commonwealth Bank of Australia,
which unified its data foundation by modern-izing
its IT systems and strategically invest-ing
in analytics, social media and mobility.21
This capability is allowing the bank to pro-vide
personalized offers that are relevant to a
customer’s needs. For instance, it offers
home loans and insurance products to clients
who visit its site after searching for proper-ties
online. Similarly, the bank also collects
and analyzes transaction and other data to
determine appropriate products with the right
pricing for its customers.
• Serve clients quickly, anytime/anywhere:
Mobile tools can improve the quality of service
and advice, streamline the sales process and
save time for advisors (see Figure 8). Through
improved presentation of data and insights,
mobile tools can help advisors deliver a high-quality
client experience. Advisor productiv-ity
can be improved by deploying front-office
tools that are accessible anytime and any-where.
Query processing and data retrieval
can be performed quickly using comprehen-sive
analytics and reporting tools.
Banks can serve a highly mobile clientele using
mobile technology. Further, mobile technolo-gies
can help banks address the challenge of
cross-border data and rules. Banks can use
Code Halos to leverage insights derived from
client data by abstracting specifics through
segmentation and clustering. They can then
use the location of a mobile device or access
point used by an advisor to determine whether
specific information can be delivered or not.
• Target clients accurately: Banks should com-bine
their client data (structured and unstruc-tured)
from their core systems with social
media content to get a unified and accurate
picture of their clients. Approximately 70%
of HNW clients in Asia look to validate their
wealth management decisions with their peers
using social media.22 Banks can leverage this
behavior by deploying targeted marketing
campaigns and sharing their latest insights
and research with clients via social media
platforms. They can also connect clients who
share common interests. For instance, Jyske
Bank, a Danish private bank, makes heavy use
of social media to engage with, update and
build online communities of customers.23
As clients in Asia place more importance to
peer feedback and word of mouth, banks
should use social channels to build their brand
and develop advocates from their client group.
Private banks should identify prospective
clients using their public profiles that can offer
Tools Begin to Matter
Figure 8
Source: CEB Wealth Management Advisor Benchmark, 2012
* More than one response allowed.
Respondent base: 1,422
Advisors find mobile tools boost their effectiveness and efficiency.
0
20
40
60
80
Improves
advice quality
Improves
service quality
Improves
sales process
Saves me time None of the above
Percent of respondents
Ineffective Effective

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insights into their lifestyles, major milestones
in life and interests. Banks can also use such
data to determine high-value clients to pur-sue.
They should leverage their existing client
base to see if they can provide introductions
and recommend their contacts or acquain-tances
with high net worth. Jyske Bank’s
online TV station, a key differentiating feature,
provides advice about market trends, asset
management and investments to its custom-ers
through expert interviews. In addition, the
TV channel’s Web site allows customers to
interact with each other and pose questions
to experts. The bank also offers an iPhone app
for clients to manage their accounts.
• Enhance customer experience: Investors seek
the same kind of highly personalized, seamless
and consistent experience from banks as what
is provided by companies outside the financial
services industry (think retail, media and enter-tainment,
etc.). To provide such experiences,
banks should learn about their clients from
every interaction to understand and anticipate
their needs accurately. Banks should leverage
their technology platforms and make use of
Code Halos to deliver unique and customized
experiences to clients at every touchpoint.
Private banks must then adopt enterprise-wide
approaches to manage and share client
information to improve the flow of and access
to information by all stakeholders to improve
client servicing. Advisors need to be equipped
with customer insights, tools and capabilities
that can tell them accurately what their cus-tomers
need. This can be achieved through the
smart management of digital information, the
use of advanced analytics and the integration
of digital channels.
Banks can use gamification to simplify interac-tions
and make routine tasks fun and engag-ing
for employees. Gamification can also help
banks educate clients on wealth manage-ment
and encourage desired client behavior.
Consider FlexScore’s online investment advi-sor
tool that leverages gamification to engage
clients and explain goal-based wealth planning
to them.24 Consumers are awarded a numerical
score between 1 and 1,000, which reflects their
financial health. Users are awarded points
for their actions, such as reading articles
about investing. The tool visually explains how
harmful financial decisions can decrease their
score. (For more information on how gamifi-cation
can help businesses, read our report,
“Gamifying Business to Drive Employee
Engagement and Performance.”)
• Improve efficiencies: Private banks should
focus on building a robust infrastructure and
automated processes to effectively engage
with digital customers and improve efficien-cies.
This will require banks to integrate
systems, processes and data in the front-,
middle- and back-offices. Banks will also
have to rewire their back-end systems to
support the capabilities they want to deliver
through digital channels. This will help them to
Firms can combine data sources to
help discover, develop and test trading
ideas and strategies.
Data from multiple asset classes and
longer time horizons can help portfolio
managers improve performance.
Access to aggregated data can provide
better insights into reporting systems
across the firm.
Key: Indicates significant interest in a particular feature of big data
Aggregated data provides a unified
view of customers/prospects (i.e.,
linking customer data to the CRM system).
CRM
Trading
Reporting
Benefits of Big Data for the Front Office
Figure 9
Source: Celent
Front Office Capture Analytics Visualization Examples
Portfolio
Management

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accurately trace orders and fully automate
and control processes. It will also enable
orders to be handled consistently, reduce
error rates through reduced manual interven-tion
and boost the rate of straight-through
processing (STP). Automation of processes
and digitization of data will result in improved
regulatory reporting and help create efficien-cies
that can balance high compliance costs.
Private banks can also offer clients self-service
digital tools to manage their wealth. Online
portals, video, e-mail and social media can help
banks more efficiently build sustainable cli-ent
relationships. Banks can reduce costly
face-to-face advisor interactions by provid-ing
clients with interactive self-service tools.
Similarly, video-based tools on mobile devices
can be used to serve clients anytime and any-where.
Low-cost digital channels can reduce
the cost of operations and providing advice,
while continuing to provide interactive com-munications.
25 Banks should focus on com-bining
and providing the expertise of their
internal departments and experts to clients
using mobile technologies.
• Improve revenues and reduce risk: Banks
should aim to restructure their systems
to perform more targeted, effective and
relevant data mining. By eliminating silos and
focusing on centralizing data and integrat-ing
disparate systems, banks can update and
unify client information across their systems
for real-time retrieval and usage. Addition-ally,
banks can create opportunities to up-sell
and cross-sell their offerings by using
insights gleaned from client data (see Figure 9,
previous page). Access to and the ability
to view client data across silos can enable
advisors to generate 47% of revenue from
new sales compared with 36% for advisors
who do not have such access.26 Banks can also
reduce their operational and reputation risk by
using big data to understand their customers
better and improve their investment research
and trading capabilities.
Footnotes
1 For more on Code Halos, see our book, Code Halos: How the Digital Lives of People, Things, and Organi-zations
are Changing the Rules of Business, by Malcolm Frank, Paul Roehrig and Ben Pring, John Wiley
& Sons, 2014, or our white paper, “Code Rules: A Playbook for Managing at the Crossroads,” Cognizant
Technology Solutions, June 2013, http://www.cognizant.com/Futureofwork/Documents/code-rules.pdf.
2 “Stepping Into the Communication Age,” Scorpio Partnership, January 2013,
http://www.scorpiopartnership.com/uploads/pdfs/2013%20jan_ScorpioPartnership_Future-wealth2012.
pdf.
3 Ibid.
4 Survey respondents had an average worth of $2.9 million (USD).
5 “The Futurewealth Report 2014: Upgrading the Service Delivery, Part 2” Scorpio Partnership, March 2014,
http://www.scorpiopartnership.com/uploads/pdfs/140321_Scorpio%20Partnership_Futurewealth_
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6 “Social Media Survey Private Banks 2012,” Assetinum, 2012,
http://www.assetinum.com/en/social-media-private-banking-2012.html.
7 “Technology and Operations Trends In The Wealth Management Industry,” Wealth Briefing and
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8 “How Client Data Can Transform Sales,” CEB, May 2013,
http://www.executiveboard.com/blogs/how-client-data-can-transform-sales/.

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9 DST Global Solutions Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of DST Systems Inc., provides technology solu-tions
and services to the world's top financial institutions, utilities and communications companies.
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11 “Industrializing” means to streamline and automate the interactions between advisors, clients
and processes.
12 Dragon Wealth and Wealthfront.
13 Baidu, Alibaba, Google, PayPal and telcos.
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18 “Embracing Digital: A High Stakes Revolution in High Net Worth Client Management,” Sungard and
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22 “Asia Private-Bank Technology to Follow Netflix-lite Model,” Euromoney, February 2014,
http://www.euromoney.com/Article/3313001/Asia-private-bank-technology-to-follow-Netflix-lite-
model.html.
23 “Social CRM in German Retail Banks,” Bearing Point, 2011,
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industry and business process expertise, and a global, collaborative workforce that embodies the future of work. With
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Author and Analyst
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