Vontobel to buy eastern European private banking portfolio from Notenstein

[August 21, 2017]  ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss bank Vontobel has agreed to buy a roughly 2 billion Swiss franc ($2.1 billion) portfolio of eastern European private banking clients from Notenstein La Roche Private Bank Ltd, it said on Monday.
 

The logo of Swiss Vontobel private bank is seen at an office building in Zurich, Switzerland September 28, 2016. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

The majority of the team managing the portfolio will move to Vontobel and the assets will be booked in Switzerland, Vontobel said in a statement.

The pair did not disclose a price for the deal but a typical rule of thumb in pricing private banking transactions is to pay around 1-2 percent of the assets being acquired.

($1 = 0.9656 Swiss francs)

(Reporting by Joshua Franklin)

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