Swiss Private Bank JB may Start Indian ops, Eyes Acquisitions

Swiss exclusive stack Julius Baer is allowing for various options to start an onto land company to target rich clients in India and is not ruling barred an acquisition to enter single of the world's newest markets in place of millionaires.

"We are fatally contemplating to release an onto land entity in India," Thomas Meier, Julius Baer's chief executive in place of Asia and the West Asia and a organ of the bank's executive board, told Reuters in an interview in Singapore.

He thought the stack believes an onto land verge on has happen to essential in place of type markets like India, someplace near is an increased demand in place of confined economic products.

"You find out a great big pour of funds (going) back into India attracted by the unique growth and this is likely to pick up again," Meier thought.

Clothed in order to tap money going away back into India as well as Indian domestic clients, the Swiss lender desired a proper licence to work in India, he added.

Currently, Julius Baer has teams of exclusive bankers in Singapore, Dubai and Zurich to import rich non-resident Indians.

Clothed in Asia, it has generously proportioned operations in Singapore and Hong Kong with the aim of cater to both domestic and offshore clients as well as an onto land presence in Jakarta in place of Indonesia's wealthy. Julius Baer has a agent company in porcelain.

He thought single of the options is to achieve a non-bank economic company's (NBFC) licence.

An NBFC licence allows an establishment in India to engage in the organization of loans and advances, acquisition of shares, routine, bonds, debentures and securities.

Meier thought he would not exclude an acquisition in India, citing Julius Baer's topical obtain in Brazil of Sao Paolo-based GPS, the country's chief separate wealth supervisor.

Global players such as Credit Suisse, Standard Chartered, Barclays and many confined players are antagonistically expanding in India, aiming to hire hundreds of bankers sandwiched between them to boost growth.

The quantity of US cash millionaires in India and their collective wealth rose by more than 50% in 2009, according to Capgemini and Merrill Lynch. There were 126,700 millionaires in India by the side of the last part of 2009.

Only not far off from a tenth of an estimated $477 billion worth of wealth held by Indian millionaires is managed by licensed advisers, industry executives maintain thought.

Julius's Meier thought the stack is sure it can resolve well in India as it has built up a strong Asian organization since 2006 despite cut-throat competition from rivals.

"My organization is profitable," he thought, but declined to allot details. "Any organization legal action in the last part would like to go (a) profit similar to three to four years and despite a considerably challenging time in 2008, we managed to complete pardon? Was likely from us."