In Asia, the wealth of affluent and mass-affluent customer segments is growing rapidly, bringing about new opportunities and growth prospects for banks and wealth managers alike in the region. But to tap into this opportunity, services providers will need to embrace technology and digital platforms to not only provide customers the services they expect, but also gain in productivity and efficiency, a new report by global consultancy McKinsey says. The report, titled Digital and AI-enabled wealth management: the big potential in Asia and released on February 02, looks at the region's fast growing household wealth and shares how wealth managers can capture this opportunity by embracing data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to reduce costs, increase access for their clients and improve customer experience across the entire lifecycle. In 2021, the wealth pool of households with investable assets of US$100,000 to US$1 million in Asia totaled US$2.7 trillion. That sum is projected to soar to US$4.7 trillion by 2026 as incomes continue to rise across the region, the report says.

Avaloq and Personetics are entering into a strategic partnership to connect Avaloq's global banking clients with Personetic's AI-powered personalized engagement solutions. Personetics, a global provider of data-driven and personalized engagement solutions for bank customers, is joining the Avaloq.one This partnership gives Avaloq's banking clients access to Personetics Engage, a business solution that offers deep analysis of customers' financial data in real-time, understands their financial behaviour, anticipates their needs and acts accordingly on their behalf. Personetics Engage provides data-driven day-to-day personalized insights, financial advice and wellness programmes, tailored to mass market, affluent as well as small business customers. Personetics Engage is supported by a rich set of tools used to help banks create Personalization IP for market differentiation while delivering significant business impact.

Personetics, the leading global provider of data-driven and personalized engagement solutions powered by artificial intelligence (AI) for bank customers, is joining the Avaloq.one This partnership gives Avaloq's banking clients access to Personetics Engage, a business solution that offers deep analysis of customers' financial data in real-time, understands their financial behaviour, anticipates their needs and acts accordingly on their behalf. Personetics Engage provides data-driven day-to-day personalized insights, financial advice and wellness programmes, tailored to mass market, affluent as well as small business customers. Personetics Engage is supported by a rich set of tools used to help banks create Personalization IP for market differentiation while delivering significant business impact. This is the latest international addition to the growing list of selected fintechs on Avaloq.one, a platform that helps banks and wealth managers to connect to a suite of pre-screened, pre-integrated fintech solutions and to third-party services that complement their existing core banking solutions and help drive new customer experiences.