Our Focus service

Our Focus service fully integrates your international banking and investment needs, offering  consolidated reporting and a single point of contact across a vast range of financial services.

To use Focus you must make a minimum initial deposit or a combination of cash deposits and investments of £50 000, or the currency equivalent.

• A comprehensive range of investment services, ranging from execution-only to discretionary managed investment portfolios.
• An international current account in up to 15 different major global currencies.
• A Focus current account, enabling transactions like standing orders and direct debits.
• Platinum Visa debit cards in US dollars, euros or pounds.
• A full range of treasury-related services, including foreign exchange capabilities.
• Fixed-term, enhanced and structured deposits in all major currencies.
• Wholesale and institutional deposits.
• Bespoke secured lending solutions, including base rate-linked and foreign currency denominated loans.

International investment offering

Improve your portfolio’s long-term performance and reduce risk by diversifying your wealth. Our portfolios have a solid foundation of quality assets complemented by satellite investments to offer you defined, risk-managed investment outcomes. 

• Access to a global universe of investment opportunities via your Focus Account, including unit trusts, direct equities, exchange-traded funds, cash funds, structured notes and other direct instruments.
• Access to the top investment funds and instruments thanks to our open architecture, which means we have no ties to any specific provider.
• A full range of investment strategies to meet your international investment needs.
• Distinct investment implementation methods, managed consistently in terms of our house view, helping you navigate the financial markets:
  • Strategy solution – Nedgroup Investments range of multifunds*
  • Segregated fund portfolio – a model portfolio of single funds
  • Separately managed account – a model portfolio of listed securities and/or funds
• Strategic partnerships, offering tax-efficient wrappers.

Digital tools

Enjoy the convenience of online access to your international wealth from anywhere in the world with our Focus service or our app and Online Banking platform. 

• Secure access to all your banking and investment transactions.
• Quick and easy transfers and payments.
• Access to international stock prices (mid-market) of your holdings on the world’s major trading exchanges (updated daily, if available).
• International stock prices via the Focus online service.

See a demonstration of our online service.
 

Foreign exchange services available in South Africa

• Travel solutions
• Sending and receiving international payments
• Foreign investment solutions

• Make payments from your Nedbank Private Wealth current account to your Nedbank Private Wealth International Focus Account.
• Receive international payments in your current account.

Find out more about our digital tools for international payments.