Banking

Entering an age of normalisation

By Thomas Gehlen, Senior Market Strategist, SG Kleinwort Hambros Bank Limited Gibraltar Branch It’s all been a bit much. In quick succession, a pandemic, an armed conflict, and a banking crisis upended life as we know it. Demand shifted, inflation…

Keeping it real in challenging times

2022 proved challenging for investors, with the pandemic aftermath and the Ukraine war, Fahad Kamal, Chief Investment Officer, Kleinwort Hambros suggests real assets could be one attractive option for 2023 Last year traditional balanced portfolios – consisting of 60% stocks…

Economic activity and the possible resulting inflation

Economic activity and the possible resulting inflation  Fahad Kamal, Chief Investment Officer, Kleinwort Hambros, reports on the possibility of renewed inflation in a post vaccination landscape   We began the year mired by the latest wave of the Corona Virus….

Getting warmer

Getting warmer  By Fahad Kamal, Chief Market Strategist, Kleinwort Hambros The first half of 2020 is now behind us, but it is a period indelibly etched into our collective memories. We entered this year cantering towards the eleventh year of…

Another lap

Another lap   By Alan Mudie, head of Research and Strategy, Societe Generale Private Banking The outlook for 2018 looks very familiar to keen observers of economies and markets. As was the case in 2017, we expect synchronized growth, sub-par…

Digital era growth to balance reduced cash handling

Digital era growth to balance reduced cash handling In the first of a two-part report on progress of the jurisdiction’s banking sector, Ray Spencer finds availability of mortgages and to some extent other business finance has improved with the arrival…

Gibraltar as the Gateway to Europe for Singapore and Hong Kong

By Joey Garcia, a Financial Services Partner at ISOLAS and Chairman of the Gibraltar Funds & Investments Association (GFIA) A strong Gibraltar delegation returned from a short but intense mission to both Singapore and Hong Kong in July. The exercise…

The cyber threat to banking

Christian Garcia is the President of the Gibraltar Bankers’ Association and also the Chief Financial & Operations Officer at Lombard Odier & Cie, Gibraltar Everything seems to indicate that going forward, the financial sector will continue to be challenged by…

New ventures to meet growing need

Gibraltar International Bank (GIB), being launched by the government to provide competition and facilities in the wake of closure of a local high street bank, has been provided with £25m initial capital. That implies GIB has potential to lend £160m…