Saxo Bank’s longest institutional partnership marks its 20th anniversary

Saxo Bank’s longest institutional partnership marks its 20th anniversary

(PRESS RELEASE) COPENHAGEN, 17-Sep-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — Saxo Bank, a Danish investment bank specialized in online trading and investment, has announced the 20th anniversary of its partnership with Portugal’s Banco Carregosa, a wealth management specialist offering advisory, asset management and online brokerage services, making this Saxo’s longest partnership in its institutional business.

Resource and budget constraints in IT, back office and market access lead many banks and brokerages to seek alternatives to building an online trading solution themselves. Saxo’s institutional business, Saxo Advanced Solutions (SAS), taps into Saxo’s open technology infrastructure to enable partners – from banks, brokers, asset managers and fintechs to hedge funds and financial advisors – to accelerate their digitisation journey.

In 2001, Banco Carregosa was looking for a digital solutions partner to support them in their digital transformation journey, allowing them to outsource parts of the offering to reduce costs and complexities, while redirecting efforts on providing a better client experience.

The result is Saxo’s first White Label Client partnership, which allowed Banca Carregosa to leverage Saxo’s back end technology while offering a state-of-the-art trading platform under their own brand, maintaining full customer control and confidentiality. Since then, the partnership has grown strongly, and Saxo has continued the development of its White Label client business model where today it has over 135 WLCs globally.

Francisco Oliveira Fernandes, CEO, Banco Carregosa, said, “We are delighted to celebrate this momentous occasion today, with the Saxo team in Lisbon. This 20-year partnership has been very positive, and in Saxo, we have a great collaborator and solutions provider who can help us bring a strong digital experience to the market and to our clients. We look forward to more great years ahead.”

Kim Fournais, CEO and Founder, Saxo Bank, said, “As the first partner bank we onboarded in 2001, Banco Carregosa has been a valued and treasured partner, and we are very proud to be here today to celebrate this great milestone together. This is a great example of a win-win relationship, which we always strive for with all our clients and partners. We are very honoured that 20 years later, Banco Carregosa is still using our technology and market access to service their end clients. We continue to work on the continual upgrade of our partner solutions, and we look forward to taking the partnership further with Banco Carregosa.”

The 20th year anniversary celebration took place in Lisbon, with an event attended by the leadership teams of both Saxo and Banco Carregosa. A panel session featured Saxo’s Chief Investment Officer, Steen Jakobsen, Mário Carvalho Fernandes, Chief Investment Officer, Banco Carregosa, and Maria Cândida Rocha e Silva, Banco Carregosa, Chairlady. The discussion focused on trends in the market, where the industry is going, digitisation of investment, where both companies are going and how they see the future of investment.

Combining human touch with scalable digital solutions
In the past 20 years, the world of Fintech and banking has evolved and one of the most significant trend in the wealth management space is the shift from in-person interaction to more digital and scalable solutions.

Digitisation offers the fastest and most cost-effective way to expedite the integration process, and increasingly, more firms are tapping partnerships and FinTech solutions to future-proof their business with a modern platform-based business model. The increased scale and automation of back-end processes free up advisors to focus on investment performance, customer management and acquisition. For the firms themselves, there is a low cost of ownership, and they can keep pace with technological innovations but at lower ongoing capital and operating expenditure.

“We understand there are many banks, brokers, asset managers, fintechs, and other institutions that have a strong desire to overcome barriers to go digital and get to scale quickly, but many are bogged down by high costs and a multitude of disconnected systems. There is a real, and ever more urgent, need in the market for these companies to partner with the right solutions provider to help them scale and gain more clients, and continue to thrive in the face of regulatory and compliance requirements,” Henrik Alsøe, Global Head of Saxo Advanced Solutions, Saxo Bank, said.

For more information, please visit https://www.home.saxo/institutional-and-partners

About Banco Carregosa

The name Banco Carregosa has been associated with the financial sector for more than 185 years. A bank specialized in Wealth Management solutions dedicated to the Private Banking and Top Affluent segments, having as main goals, the independent professional advice, management and protection of the clients’ assets.

The banking offer is primarily aimed at private clients, providing financial investment services, savings solutions, asset management, consulting, trading, including the underwriting of investment and custody funds, as well as a comprehensive advisory service in matters related to wealth management, including support in the definition and management of the investment process and in the structuring of assets.

The Bank also offers savings and investment solutions tailored to the needs of clients who prefer to directly manage their own assets, without the need for advice and through the latest and most advanced technological processes of online trading – this service has been marketed since late 2013 through the GoBulling brand.

In addition to the private offering, the Bank offers a set of solutions to institutional investors and companies, including corporate and risk management, execution and custody, depositary of investment funds and settlement and clearing services.

Banco Carregosa strategy is based on the values of independence, transparency, personalization, innovation and sustainability.

For more information, please visit: https://www.bancocarregosa.com/en/

About the Saxo Bank Group

Saxo Bank connects people to investment opportunities in global capital markets. As a provider of multi-asset trading and investment, Saxo Bank strives to empower people with a user-friendly, seamless and personalised platform experience that gives them exactly what they need, when they need it, no matter if they want to actively trade global markets or invest into their future.

Founded in 1992, Saxo Bank was one of the first financial institutions to develop an online trading platform that provided private investors with the same tools and market access as professional traders, large institutions and fund managers. Saxo combines an agile fintech mindset with close to 30 years of  experience and track record in global capital markets to deliver a state-of-the-art experience to clients. The Saxo Bank Group holds four banking licenses and is well regulated globally. Saxo offers clients around the world broad access to global capital markets across asset classes, where they can trade more than 40,000 instruments in over 20 languages from one single margin account. The Saxo Bank Group also powers more than 120 financial institutions as partners by boosting the investment experience they can offer their clients via its open banking technology.

Headquartered in Copenhagen, Saxo Bank’s client assets total more than 45 billion Euros and the company has more than 2,000 financial and technology professionals in financial centers around the world including London, Singapore, Amsterdam, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Paris, Zurich, Dubai and Tokyo.

Media contacts:

Saxo Bank
press@saxobank.com

Banco Carregosa
Tiago Fleming
+35 19 3325 0132
tiagofleming@bancocarregosa.com

SOURCE: Saxo Bank A/S