UOB PFS signs up for Contineo platform

20 September 2023 (Hong Kong): Contineo is very pleased to welcome United Overseas Bank Personal Financial Services (UOB PFS) as a new client.

UOB PFS is going live with Contineo’s platform to boost structured products pricing and dealing efficiency.

Contineo is thrilled to partner with UOB PFS as a leading market player in Southeast Asia driven by digital innovation.

Contineo leverages on best-in-class technology to provide an optimal and flexible solution for private banks looking to grow their structured product business. Beyond its Click & Trade core service, Contineo’s web-based platform also provides Booking & Lifecycle services which can be deployed to a large number of users in multiple locations in minutes.


Best Structured Products Solution by Asian Private Banker's 8th Technology Awards 2022

25 April 2023 (Hong Kong): We are thrilled to announce that Contineo has been awarded the Best Structured Products Solution by Asian Private Banker.

This recognition is a testimony of our commitment to delivering top-notch services to our clients.

Contineo is grateful for the trust and support of its clients and partners who are instrumental in our success – Thank you for your continued support.

We look forward to serving you even better in the future!!

Contineo Team


BNP Paribas Wealth Management goes live with Contineo in Europe

13 March 2023 (Paris): Contineo is very pleased to welcome BNP Paribas Wealth Management as a strategic client also in Europe.

In close collaboration with BNP Paribas Wealth Management, Contineo has further enhanced its platform to cater for European client needs. Europe’s most popular payoffs are now available on Contineo’s platform for multi-issuer pricing, request for pre-trade regulatory documents and order placement, thanks to this long lasting partnership with BNP Paribas Wealth Management.

With BNP Paribas Wealth Management as a strategic partner, Contineo is thrilled to connect with multiple issuers in Europe and start servicing clients in the region. Contineo also leverages its newly established development hub in Europe to accelerate expansion.

Contineo now offers a unified solution across Asia & Europe to serve global wealth managers most pressing needs for both Equity & FX linked structured products. Contineo’s web-based platform which also provides Booking & Lifecycle services can be deployed to a large number of users in multiple locations in minutes.


Nomura IWM signs up for Contineo platform

4 May 2021 (Hong Kong): Contineo is very pleased to welcome Nomura International Wealth Management (IWM) as a new client.

Nomura IWM is going live with Contineo’s brand new platform, which was released in late 2020.

Contineo is thrilled to be part of Nomura’s ambitious plan to accelerate expansion of its client franchise in Asia ex-Japan and enhance its WM services platform with digital capabilities.

Contineo offers an intuitive and responsive user interface with a wide range of payoffs and variations. Structured products can be customized, priced and executed in a fully automated manner with up to 18 different issuers. Our web-based platform can be deployed to a large number of users in multiple locations in minutes.

Contineo’s technology leverages on best-in-class security certifications and allows users to carry on performing their duties even from home without any business disruption. It is an optimal and flexible solution for private banks looking to grow their structured product business.


The Bank of East Asia (BEA) signs up for Contineo platform

03 February 2021 (Hong Kong): Contineo is very pleased to welcome The Bank of East Asia (BEA) as a new client.

The Bank of East Asia is going live with Contineo’s brand new platform, which was released in late 2020.

Contineo offers a very wide range of payoffs and issuers through a user-friendly GUI with smart pricing widgets. Our new platform does not require any installation and can be deployed to hundreds of users in just a few weeks.

Contineo’s technology leverages on best-in-class security certifications and allows users to carry on performing their duties even from home without any business disruption. It is an optimal solution for private banks looking to grow their structured product business.


Contineo 2.0 – Discover our next generation platform

06 October 2020 (Hong Kong): Contineo, the first industry supported platform for pricing discovery, order management and post-trade services of structured products, is thrilled to announce the release of its new platform.

Contineo’s next generation platform has been released to all its clients. CTO Franck Lerat explained how the company had prepared for this strategic technology change.

“Over the past two years we have built a high performing team of expert engineers all located in the same office and operating a lean organization of the kind that only fintechs can achieve,” he said. “We have worked in close partnership with our clients, using the state-of-the-art technologies and best practice development lifecycle on agile and devops model.”

The end result is a leading-edge platform with high availability and resiliency, combined with the agility to quickly deliver and deploy changes. The platform also offers full scalability to handle large volumes, combined with the ability to integrate the most complex products and workflows.

“The core platform is developed on a flexible architecture of micro services all containerized and managed in Kubernetes clusters,” Mr. Lerat said. “It is completely hosted in the cloud and doesn’t require any client side deployment. It offers our clients an open architecture, exposing all services available via standard API transports and formats. We are all extremely proud of this new platform which will provide Contineo years of competitive advantage by being written day one on the best technology design patterns.”

CEO Antoine de Charnacé highlighted that this major milestone for the company had happened while Contineo was celebrating its fifth year.

“Thanks to the great support of our clients and the upmost dedication of the team, Contineo has become a leading provider of technology solutions for wealth managers to address their most pressing challenges by building flexible and integrated workflows and mitigating risks,” he said.

Mr. de Charnacé explained how the recent work from home environment under Covid-19 had proven the benefits of a web-based platform that can be remotely accessed by a wide population of users. Product dealers, investment counselors and relationship managers can receive in seconds multiple batches of pricings from anywhere (Contineo facilitated 9 million prices year-to-date). Not only does Contineo help users to connect with 16 different issuers for pricing and execution of ten popular equity payoffs, but it also empowers them with an end-to-end solution, including market intelligence and post-trade services designed to achieve more for end clients.

“We foresee more than twice the volume placed via Contineo compared to last year despite the unprecedented business dislocation in 2020. This new platform will help to accelerate further our growth by reinforcing trusted partnerships with clients and unlocking new opportunities,” Mr. de Charnacé said. “With such a comprehensive and flexible offering, Contineo is ready to address client needs in various geographical locations and across different asset classes. The team has built a unique domain expertise, with deep in-house experience in technology and structured products.”


Contineo hires Franck Lerat as CTO to support further expansion

08 October 2019 (Hong Kong): Contineo, the industry-backed messaging network for equity-linked structured products, announced today the appointment of Franck Lerat as Chief Technology Officer.

CEO Antoine de Charnacé said Mr Lerat was ideally placed to lead the next technology evolution of Contineo’s successful structured product platform.

“We are tremendously excited to welcome Franck to Contineo,” he said. “He’s the ideal person to lead our talented team of technologists as we further develop the platform and deliver the new functionalities that will help our users and their end clients extract even more value out of the structured product investment process.”

CEO Antoine de Charnacé explained this addition to the team was very timely and an important milestone for the company to support the positive trend and ongoing developments.

“We have made significant progress this year in rolling out Contineo platform directly to investment counselors and relationship managers, beyond the dealing team of our buy-side clients. Contineo’s web-based solution gives a unique advantage for client-facing users who can send RFQs remotely on their tablets and receive pricings across 15 issuers in less than a minute, while sharing a coffee with their clients. The increasing number of users (+70% this year) combined with new payoffs available on the platform translate into more RFQs (+30% YoY) and ultimately more transactions. Compared to last year, we foresee a 20% growth on the volume placed via Contineo despite a more challenging market environment in 2019. This trend will be supported further by a new private bank joining Contineo’s network in Q4 this year” he said.

“Technology is more than ever at the core of our development plans to scale up the business with new platform features and new services available such as lifecycle module and enhanced analytics tools. It is key to reinforce our position in Hong Kong and Singapore and support our customers operations across the globe. Franck’s appointment further enhances Contineo’s position as the leading partner sustaining both our buy and sell-side banking clients technology transformation” he concluded.

With more than 25 years’ experience in equity derivatives technology, Mr Lerat said he was looking forward to applying his deep global expertise to Contineo’s nimble and innovative technology stack.

“Contineo represents the next exciting evolution in the structured product space,” he said. “I followed Contineo’s work closely since it launched in 2015, and I look forward very much to being part of the next iteration of its journey.”

Mr Lerat joins Contineo from HSBC, where he was Global Head of Equity Derivatives IT in charge of the digital transformation of the technology stack. He was previously Co-Head of Equity Derivatives IT at JPMorgan, where he spent most of his career and recently reengineered the firm’s technology solutions for equity derivatives front to back.

For interviews with Antoine de Charnacé:
Kristin Westlake, The Continuum Partners | kwestlake@thecontinuumpartners.com | +61 416 219 358

ABOUT CONTINEO

Contineo is the first industry supported, open messaging network for pricing discovery and order management to private banks, wealth managers and issuers of structured products.

Contineo also offers a network for centralized and standardized lifecycle events, and smart analytics for participants to access real-time market intelligence and identify new business opportunities.

Contineo believes that automation increases productivity and efficiency for structured products helping buy-side clients to thrive in a competitive market environment.

Contineo is a cost efficient and easy-to-access solution for all market participants. For more information or to request a demo, please reach out to info@contineo.com.hk.


Contineo brings new transparency and efficiency to structured products

Contineo launches a Lifecycle Management module as a client engagement tool for Wealth Managers

15 May 2019 (Hong Kong): Contineo, the network serving the wealth management industry, today launched a new tool that offers private bankers unprecedented insight into their clients’s structured products portfolios.

Contineo’s Lifecycle Management product brings centralized management tools to wealth managers for the first time, allowing them to monitor product events, underlying performance and creating additional touch point opportunities with clients, as well as superior one-click reporting. The product is already live at one of Contineo’s member firm.

CEO Antoine de Charnacé said that the Proof of Concept developed by the company earlier has now been fully enhanced in partnership with private banks on the network into a comprehensive Lifecycle module, delivering exactly the capabilities that have been missing on the secondary market for structured products.

“Our unique position at the intersection of issuers and wealth managers allows us to help identify business opportunities by tracking the performance of products and underlyings; better monitor product events from barriers watch and coupons payments to corporate actions; and overall gauge secondary market opportunities for investors he said. “Taken together, these capabilities allow wealth managers to enrich their client interactions with better, more timely information, and manage their portfolios much more quickly and easily. This is also a great opportunity for issuers to demonstrate their level of post trade services” he added.

Product features managed within the Contineo’s Lifecycle Management module include:

  • Portfolio overview
  • Indicative bid prices
  • Issuer notifications
  • Underlying performance and barriers watch
  • Corporate actions
  • Client reporting and documentation

Lifecycle Management is available as part of the Contineo suite of products either as a standalone module or alongside Contineo’s Click and Trade module and Analytics module, the market data solution to access structured products market insights.

For interviews with Antoine de Charnacé:
Kristin Westlake, The Continuum Partners kwestlake@thecontinuumpartners.com

+61 416 219 358

ABOUT CONTINEO

Contineo is the first industry supported, open messaging network for pricing discovery and order management to private banks, wealth managers and issuers of structured products.

Contineo also offers a network for centralized and standardized lifecycle events, and smart analytics for participants to access real-time market intelligence and identify new business opportunities.

Contineo believes that automation increases productivity and efficiency for structured products helping buy-side clients to thrive in a competitive market environment.

Contineo is a cost efficient and easy-to-access solution for all market participants. For more information or to request a demo, please reach out to info@contineo.com.hk.


Contineo hires Benoit Pommier as Head of Sales & Marketing

12 November, 2018 (Hong Kong): Contineo, the industry-backed messaging network for equity-linked structured products, today announced the appointment of Benoit Pommier to support the company’s growth in the region.

CEO Antoine de Charnacé says Mr Pommier’s expertise in structured products and private banking in Asia is ideal to strengthen Contineo’s growing team.

“Contineo is firmly established as Asia’s structured products network and data provider, enjoying continuous growth over the past three years,” he said. “We have an ambitious roadmap ahead from both client and product perspectives. We definitely welcome Benoit’s experience and deep product knowledge to enhance Contineo’s value proposal and expand our network.”

Mr Pommier has spent his career in structured products on both the buy and sell sides in Singapore and Hong Kong. His previous roles involved working in the private banking arms of Société Générale, HSBC and DBS, and most recently on the sell side with Commerzbank where he was covering Private Banks and External Asset Managers for structured products distribution.

“I’ve had extremely positive interactions with Contineo while using the platform as a client, and I’m very excited to be part of the expansion of the firm which will provide even more automation and transparency to the structured products market in the region,” Mr Pommier said.

For interviews with Antoine de Charnacé:
Kristin Westlake, The Continuum Partners kwestlake@thecontinuumpartners.com

+61 416 219 358

ABOUT CONTINEO

Contineo is the first industry supported, open messaging network for private banks and wealth management firms to access issuers of structured products. It is also the first firm to offer structured product data feeds, illuminating this previously opaque market for the very first time. Together we are a community with a shared vision and purpose.

We believe that technology should be intuitive, easy to access, and available to all participants. This means creating an open messaging standard in concert with the buy-side and sell-side, and enabling access to all parties, including other certified technology vendors.

This mission is shared by our current subscribers, who recognise the importance of an open, efficient and transparent network.


Contineo Announces New CEO

29 June, 2018 (Hong Kong): Contineo, Asia’s largest messaging network and data provider for structured products, announced today that Antoine de Charnacé has been appointed as CEO.

Mr. de Charnacé joins Contineo from DBS Private Bank and brings significant financial services experience and a deep knowledge of both structured products and private banking.

Mr. de Charnacé said Contineo has brought extremely positive changes to the structured products market since its launch three years ago.

“Contineo has been a leader in bringing automation and transparency to this very important market,” he said. “I see huge potential to grow and expand these benefits and I’m excited about the opportunities that lie ahead.”

Mr. de Charnacé replaces Mr. Mark Munoz, who after three years leading Contineo from an early-stage start-up to a successful revenue generating network business, has stepped down to focus on other business opportunities. Mr. Munoz will remain with Contineo over a transition period.

David Wood, Contineo Board Member and Societe Generale Managing Director, said Mr. Munoz had been instrumental in the launch and successful delivery of Contineo, taking the initial idea for an industry standard structured products network and building it into a fast-growing, successful business.

“On behalf of all board members, I would like to thank Mark for the vision, leadership and creativity that he brought to the company, and wish him every success in his future ventures,” he said. “Under Mark’s guidance Contineo has grown significantly, doubling the number of subscribers in the last year alone. Alongside the recently established partnership with a new investor, Mark has built a solid foundation for Contineo’s future.”

For media enquiries:
Kristin Westlake, The Continuum Partners kwestlake@thecontinuumpartners.com

+61 416 219 358