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WealthBriefing is the global daily news and analysis service for our extensive and valued network of users.

Since 2005, WealthBriefing's network has given members access to regular and exclusive research on the global wealth management sector along with the opportunity to attend industry events such as exclusive invites to Breakfast Briefings and Summits in the major wealth management centres and industry leading awards programmes.

WealthBriefing is truly global news service with sister publications WealthBriefingAsia and the North America based Family Wealth Report reflecting the global nature of the wealth management industry and its client base.

Members of the WealthBriefing Network full access to WealthBriefing’s huge database of almost 200,000 articles and news going back to 2001.

Our dedicated international editorial team produces the publication of record for the global wealth management industry as well as breaking exclusive and essential news for this fast moving sector.

  • Strategic and structural changes across the private banking and wealth management sectors
  • Evolving business models and how technology can enhance the client experience and improve profitability
  • How to leverage digital delivery
  • Cybersecurity and data management
  • What clients are looking for in wealth managers
  • Results and performance metrics
  • Mergers & acquisitions in wealth management
  • People moves and profiles
  • The challenges of servicing families and family offices
  • Asset management and allocation - new products, performance and structures
  • The compliance challenge, including data protection, AML, KYC and suitability
  • Tax, estate planning and legal issues for the high net worth community
  • Updates on luxury goods and services

Group Editor Tom Burroughes and his extensive editorial team are supported by a high profile and distinguished editorial board. They ensure that nothing is missed and only the most useful and important issues are brought to your attention.

Publisher Stephen Harris has over 30 years’ City experience as a financial journalist, publisher and private client investment manager.

WealthBriefing is published by ClearView Financial Media with over 20 years’ experience of providing information to the international financial services sector.

Latest Comment & Analysis

Compliance
25 June 2026

Adverse Media Checks A Major Compliance Task, Puts Spotlight On Tech

In this article, we talk to smartKYC, an enterprise solution for KYC due diligence automation. One important field is adverse media screening, and the ways that technology can assist in sifting through a mass of...

Client Affairs
24 June 2026

Wealth Managers Discuss Brexit Impact 10 Years On

On the 10-year anniversary of the Brexit referendum this week, Hetal Mehta, chief economist at UK wealth manager St James’s Place, together with other wealth managers, discussed the economic and investment imp...

Client Affairs
8 May 2026

ANALYSIS: The American Citizen Inflow To UK – What's Driving It?

A new residency system, a desire for new lifestyles and opportunities, and a dislike of domestic US political and social trends is encouraging HNW Americans to look at the UK. ...

Legal
5 May 2026

HNW Israel Divorce Court Case Uncovers Hidden Assets – Implications

Lawyers comment on the implications of a recent divorce case in Israel where financial structures, including foreign corporations and trusts, were used to shield assets. ...

Legal
5 May 2026

ANALYSIS: To Reform Or Leave Alone? – Non-Compete Clauses In The UK 

Many wealth managers, private bankers and advisors are familiar with non-competes and the other contractual clauses that limit their freedom of action in certain ways. At times they’re controversial. The UK go...

Wealth Strategies
20 April 2026

Fixing A Major Capital Mispricing On Women's Health – In Conversation With Maryann Umoren Selfe

A wealth management and private banking figure uses her understanding of structural mispricing in capital markets to identify a systemic problem. Women's health is an example, she says – and that creates oppor...

Latest News

New Products
8 July 2026

Schroders Wealth Management Launches New Global Service

The new offering has gone live in the UK and Switzerland, and will do so in Asia later this year. The UK-headquartered group has been sharpening its wealth management focus, as shown by its move to spin off a fi...

Market Research
7 July 2026

A New Measure Wealth By Wellbeing Guide Redefines How Financial Success Is Measured

The B Corp-certified financial planning firm First Wealth has published a guide to its Measure Wealth by Wellbeing framework, asking clients to assess how they feel about how their finances affect their wellbein...

Compliance
7 July 2026

Compliance Corner: UK Regulator Charts AI's Impact On Financial Services

The latest compliance news: regulatory developments, punishments, guidance, permissions and authorisations for new product and service offerings. ...

Technology
7 July 2026

OPINION OF THE WEEK: Clients’ Use Of AI – Should Advisors Be Worried Or Excited?

The group editor takes a look at the issue of clients’ use of AI and digital tools to get clued up about money, financial planning and investment, and how advisors fearful perhaps of their business should thin...

M and A
7 July 2026

UK Financial Services M&A Value Surged Eight-Fold In H1

A clutch of Anglo-American deals – such as involvement of private equity firms in the US and opportunities in the UK – helped propel deal volumes in the first six months of this year.  ...

New Products
7 July 2026

What’s New In Investments, Funds? – Standard Chartered, BlackRock, MUFG, JCB

The latest news in investment offerings, financial products and other services relevant to wealth advisors and their clients. ...