Sudhir Marwa is the EVP and Business Head of Intellect Wealth and Capital Markets. He is an operations & technology professional with over 29 years of experience in Retail Banking, Off-shore Wealth Management, Private Banking & Commercial Banking across Asia, Europe, Middle East & Africa. He has a long career spanning more than 30 years and has worked with leading banks such as Citibank, DBS, ABN AMRO, Barclays, ANZ and Mashreq Bank.

He first offered delegates a snapshot of his firm, Intellect Design Arena (see box below). And he then zoomed in on the Middle East, noting that private wealth and wealth management are both growing apace, with the HNW segment rising fast and bringing with it many challenges for the banks and other providers, who are often struggling, especially around digital delivery, data, insights, personalised solutions and boosting the capabilities and productivity of the RMs.