Fincite reveals that fragmented client holdings across multiple accounts and assets pose a strategic challenge for wealth managers, urging the adoption of integrated platforms to gain a comprehensive view of client wealth and improve advisory services.
Wealth managers may be missing the biggest part of a client’s fortune because it sits outside their own systems, according to fincite, the WealthTech firm that argues fragmented holdings are now a strategic weakness rather than a minor reporting problem. For affluent clients, assets are often divided among several banks, custody accounts, property and alternative investments, leaving advisers to work from an incomplete balance sheet.
That gap matters because it can distort both risk analysis and investment advice. fincite says an adviser who can only see in-house holdings cannot judge a client’s true asset mix or identify concentrations that are spread across different securities accounts. The company also argues that banks lose commercial opportunities when they cannot see what wealth a client holds elsewhere, since a consolidated view can create a case for moving assets on to the bank’s own platform.
The industry’s technical hurdles are familiar. Securities data usually sits with third-party institutions, so access depends on client permission and standardised interfaces, while manual processes built around statements and data entry do not scale well. Even when data is collected, different custodians often use their own formats, identifiers and booking logic, which can leave advisers with conflicting figures unless the information is normalised first. Property is another blind spot, as real estate is often a client’s largest single asset but rarely appears in securities account views.
fincite says its cios platform is designed to close that gap by connecting account and securities data through partners including fino, Qwist and wealthAPI, with client approval captured through click-based consent rather than manual input. It also integrates property valuations from providers such as PriceHubble and Sprengnetter before consolidating the data into a single advisory view. The company says that kind of aggregation improves client profiling, makes portfolio proposals more holistic and strengthens reporting, while also giving the bank a better chance of becoming the main point of contact for future wealth decisions.
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