Overview

Business Trends

Funds & Finance

Markets

Profiles

FT.com Home Page

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" src="http://ads.ft.com/js.ng/params.richmedia=yes&site=ftcom&pos=sb1"></SCRIPT><NOSCRIPT><A href="http://ads.ft.com/click.ng/params.richmedia=yes&site=ftcom&pos=sb1" TARGET="_top"><img src="http://ads.ft.com/image.ng/params.richmedia=yes&site=ftcom&pos=sb1" WIDTH="120" HEIGHT="60" BORDER="0"></A></NOSCRIPT>

Profiles

FRIDAY OCTOBER 13 2000

Success relies on personal touch

Profiles

It is easy to assume that big is beautiful in the global custody business. But Pictet & Cie, the Swiss private bank, is testimony to the fact that small, if appropriately niche, can be beautiful too. Pictet has just SFr75bn of assets under custody, although it has a further SFr125bn of assets under joint management and custody....more

STATE STREET
Going the extra mile to woo clients  Jul 14

BROWN BROTHERS HARRIMAN
Exclusive shop with a rarified history  Jul 14

BANK OF NEW YORK
Single-minded approach keeps rival at bay  Jul 14

CHASE MANHATTAN
Strategy has consolidated position as global player  Jul 14

NORTHERN TRUST
Exclusivity takes precedence  Jul 14

DEUTSCHE BANK
Stability and customer focus take priority  Jul 14

EUROCLEAR
Settlement books set to double  Jul 14

small players

Niche custodians

faster cycling

Trade settlement

previous survey
Global Custody 1999

special reports
US Elections
Connectis
FT Euro
FT500
FT Surveys