Thursday, 20th November 2008

 

SG Private Banking buys ABN's Gibraltar office

SG Hambros, part of SG Private Banking, has acquired Dutch bank ABN Amro's private banking operations in Gibraltar, following the acquisition of ABN's London private banking office in December.

The bank, owned by Société Générale of France, said the acquisition would make it one of the leading private banking players in the tax haven.

The bank did not disclose the figure paid.

The bank said in a press release that the move is part of the strategy of SG Private Banking, which is developing its activities through both internal and external growth in key wealth management markets.

ABN sold its London-based business to SG Hambros last year after it merged with a consortium of banks led by Royal Bank of Scotland, which prompted a series of defections of its wealth advisers.

The French bank’s shares declined 1.65 euros, or 3%, to 53.64 euros.

Tags: Royal Bank of Scotland , SG Hambros

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Mayfair goes Modern

Sebastian + Barquet, a three-year old design gallery based in New York and Chelsea, is opening a new gallery showing museum quality pieces in Mayfair next month, the first in London to focus on international modernism from the 1940s to the 1960s. Its opening exhibition is dedicated to American modernist design and is curated by celebrated architect Eric Parry.

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Barclays Wealth forecasts 400,000 Indian dollar-millionaires

Barclays Wealth on Wednesday predicted the number of dollar-millionaires in India to grow to over 400,000 by 2017, making it a leading world wealth market, according to a report in The Economic Times of India.

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