Corporate Services
Partnering with businesses and investors to drive economic growth across the African continent.
Standard Bank has been providing financial services for the past 160 years. We apply our expertise to help you structure, grow and protect your business.
Building Africa's Future
Through our teams in Mauritius and Jersey, we offer fiduciary services from two leading international financial centres that bring together the best of both jurisdictions.
With some of the world’s fastest-growing economies, Africa has strong long-term growth prospects. Yet this diverse continent presents a variety of complex issues for businesses and investors ranging from challenging regulatory, legal and tax systems to quickly evolving political and social environments.
Standard Bank’s corporate and fiduciary services help navigate these challenges. Establishing international holding structures which are administered by our experts, you can take advantage of the fantastic investment opportunities across the continent, confident in the knowledge you are partnering with an institution dedicated to driving Africa’s growth. Examples of structures we implement for our clients include –
- Trusts to hold business assets or personal assets
- Holding companies
- Employee benefit trusts
- International savings and retirement plans
- Foundations
Working together, we help you find the most effective ways to invest, pool, manage and transfer the capital destined to build the Africa of tomorrow.
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Building Africa's Future
Through our teams in Mauritius and Jersey, we offer fiduciary services from two leading international financial centres that bring together the best of both jurisdictions.
With some of the world’s fastest-growing economies, Africa has strong long-term growth prospects. Yet this diverse continent presents a variety of complex issues for businesses and investors ranging from challenging regulatory, legal and tax systems to quickly evolving political and social environments.
Standard Bank’s corporate and fiduciary services help navigate these challenges. Establishing international holding structures which are administered by our experts, you can take advantage of the fantastic investment opportunities across the continent, confident in the knowledge you are partnering with an institution dedicated to driving Africa’s growth. Examples of structures we implement for our clients include –
- Trusts to hold business assets or personal assets
- Holding companies
- Employee benefit trusts
- International savings and retirement plans
- Foundations
Working together, we help you find the most effective ways to invest, pool, manage and transfer the capital destined to build the Africa of tomorrow.
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Private client services
We implement bespoke succession plans for families to leave a lasting legacy through flexible fiduciary structures. Whether through a trust, private trust company, foundation or holding company, we can support your family’s unique needs.
Family Office Services
We understand that a legacy is about more than wealth. It is about family, purpose, unity, and a better future. Partner with us to build and preserve your family’s legacy for generations to come.
International Fiduciary Services
Join other African connected and UK resident families who entrust us with helping to create, grow, protect and pass on their wealth.
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Estate & Succession Planning
10 Nov 2023
African generational tensions regarding the transfer of wealth
As directors of trust companies forming part of Africa’s largest bank by assets, with a presence in 19 African countries, it is fair for us to say that we have significant experience implementing estate and succession plans for families with African connections. Whilst we absolutely acknowledge that each family is unique, as are their estate and succession planning needs, we do still see threads of commonality when we are approached by families wishing to establish fiduciary structures.
Estate & Succession Planning
11 Oct 2023
Robust philanthropy regulation enables effective giving
It might come as a surprise to some that family foundations give 10 times more in charitable donations than corporate foundations. According to a report by the Association of Charitable Foundations, family foundations gave £2.3 billion in 2020–21 compared to the £239 million from corporate foundations.
Estate & Succession Planning
21 Jun 2023
Offshore Trusts: Preserving family wealth and building a family legacy
In an era of global connectivity and expanding investment opportunities, high net-worth families are increasingly considering offshore trusts to preserve their wealth and ensure a legacy for their future generations, writes Standard Bank International Fiduciary Services’ Nitrisha Doorasamy.
Estate & Succession Planning
11 Apr 2023
Put your seatbelts on: Simple planning techniques to help avoid future conflict
No one sets out on a car journey with the intention of crashing, and yet everyone puts on their seat belt before setting out. It pays to be prudent and so why would one take unnecessary risks if they can be easily avoided? This is as true in everyday life as it is in business, and even more so when establishing a trust structure that needs to contend with family dynamics, cross-border planning, and complex asset classes.
Estate & Succession Planning
8 Sep 2023
More than money and assets: what makes an effective succession plan
“The special challenges of the Rich come from the inordinate freedom granted by the wealth, the surplus of resources beyond ordinary human needs, and the ability to manage the world around them in ways not possible to others.” 1
Estate Planning
Estate and succession planning for women
Women running their own businesses must pay special attention to estate planning and matters concerning succession planning.