Avaloq Blog

If you maintain a sustainable lifestyle and set out to buy both tomatoes and an investment fund, you will quickly notice that your purchase decision regarding the vegetables is grounded in more fact than the one for the fund.

Digital wealth management software can increase the financial services industry’s cost efficiency and enable them to reach a wider audience with custom services.

Hearing of a synthesizer, most people’s thoughts might wander to electronic music rather than to digital data. But the process of synthesizing a database is exactly what banks should have in mind when it comes to accelerating their software development and testing.

The latest survey of our partner Orbium, Survive and Thrive to 2025 – Insights from the Wealth Management C-Suite, reveals the challenges ahead for private banking and wealth management.
In this guest blog, Ian Woodhouse, Head of Strategy and Change at Orbium, shows how the company could help wealth managers transform and enhance their future potential.

After five years of hype about digitalization, it’s time to take stock. Which trends have fulfilled expectations? Five years ago, all the talk was of robo-advisory, robotic process automation and distributed ledgers. But which technologies are private banks and wealth managers now using to secure their future?

What role does Business-Process-as-a-Service (BPaaS) have to play in banking as we move into the new decade? Here are the 4 biggest benefits that BPaaS offers to banks.

Messenger apps and conversational AI will develop a significant impact on the client experience of banking. Financial institutions are busy establishing robo-chatbots for service requests or use AI-supported human conversation to support their relationship managers (RMs).

In today's article, we write about the fundamental problem of exchanging non-bankable assets and present a new method for trading them in the absence of any regulated (public) market. 

Recommendation solutions are sometimes used by wealth management firms and banks to automatically suggest the product that a client may be interested in. They aim to increase client satisfaction and avoid wasting both the client’s and the relationship manager’s time with inappropriate offers.

The switch from the global interest rate benchmark to its regional offspring, like SARON in Switzerland, represents a major challenge to financial institutions.