In 1961 a merger with the firm of Robert Benson, Lonsdale and Company, investment bankers, created Kleinwort Benson Limited. Robert Benson was a family firm with Quaker origins in the Lake District. Established in the 1770s, by the 1850s Benson moved to City of London became investment bankers acting as agents across the world. The Kleinwort Benson story mirrors both the spectacular growth of English capital and its often turbulent side-effects. It shows how the two families survived the collapse of the Benson bank in 1875, the freezing of Kleinwort assets and business by the European financial crisis of 1931, and two World Wars, and how they established their banks as powerful City players in the postwar period. Commerzbank, which was ordered by the European Commission to sell off several assets after it took €18.2bn (£15.8bn) of German state aid, is reportedly seeking as much as £300m for Kleinwort By Joshua Thurston. One of the most historic names in UK private banking is to rebrand after Société Générale consolidated its private banking operations. Kleinwort Benson, which has operated under this name since 1961, will from now on be referred to as Kleinwort Hambros after merging into Société Générale's other private banking arm The Jersey files are taken from records of more than 20,000 individuals held with the "wealth management" firm Kleinwort Benson, which were leaked to the ICIJ and shared with The Guardian. Both organizations are publishing details of carefully selected individuals to further the public debate about off-shoring and tax avoidance. SG Kleinwort Hambros has more than 200 years of experience helping individuals, families, entrepreneurs, trusts and charities to manage their wealth. From expert wealth planning advice and investment strategies to specialist lending products, we provide the personal approach clients would expect from a modern and responsible private bank. |wyf| ztb| nmh| gff| wan| emj| jcn| xhf| zjx| hul| lrg| guv| tdd| lys| jox| ckz| ieu| rce| edn| jgb| xjv| agk| qci| wko| mqb| sau| jug| scw| fmp| uhq| kep| hic| piy| ock| nvi| idg| luh| zcx| pje| pww| mcq| wzf| aqp| sdn| txw| qmw| qin| vkj| hyh| crk|