Pillar Two

Banking, without
friction.

Multi-currency accounts, institutional-grade FX, a dedicated relationship manager, and carbon accounting on every transaction — a private bank that behaves like it was built this decade. Every account is structured around how capital actually moves for a principal with cross-border interests: settlement in the currency the counterparty asks for, reporting that consolidates every entity and jurisdiction into one view, and a single point of accountability who already knows the answer before you have to ask the question. This is asset management infrastructure wearing the shape of a current account.

Pillar 2 — Private Banking

A banking relationship, not an app with a bank attached.

Most private banking today is a legacy ledger with a modern skin stretched over it — the interface is new, the plumbing is not. Ours is built the other way round: the account structure, the FX engine, and the servicing model were designed together, for principals who hold capital across currencies, jurisdictions and asset classes, and who need one institution to see all of it at once.

Execution

  • Institutional-grade FX execution across 30+ currency pairs, priced against live interbank spreads rather than a retail markup
  • Best-execution obligation applied to every conversion: quotes are benchmarked against the WM/Reuters 4pm fix or live interbank mid, with the reference rate shown alongside the price you're offered
  • Correspondent banking relationships across the Eurozone, North America, the Gulf and Asia-Pacific, so payments in major corridors settle bank-to-bank rather than routing through a chain of intermediaries that each take a spread
  • SWIFT gpi tracking on cross-border wires, giving end-to-end visibility of a payment's status and confirmation of credit within the standard UETR reference
  • Zero-cost domestic transfers, transparent cross-border pricing quoted before you confirm, never buried in the exchange rate
  • Same-day settlement on major corridors, with a dedicated desk for structured or time-sensitive transfers

Security

  • FSCS protection up to £85,000 per eligible depositor per banking licence, topped up by Lloyd's of London excess-deposit cover for balances above the statutory threshold
  • Client funds are safeguarded in segregated, ring-fenced pooled accounts at tier-one custodian banks, held entirely apart from Fortera Nova's own balance sheet — in the event of institutional failure, safeguarded balances do not form part of the insolvency estate
  • Daily reconciliation of safeguarded balances against client ledgers, independently audited
  • Biometric authentication, real-time anomaly detection, and device-level fraud modelling on every transaction

Servicing

  • A single dedicated relationship manager who owns your account end to end, not a rotating call-centre queue
  • Fully reconfigurable reporting dashboard consolidating accounts, entities and currencies into one statement
  • Direct escalation lines for time-critical requests, available outside standard banking hours

Impact Accounting

  • Automated carbon accounting on every transaction, calculated against a transparent, third-party-audited methodology
  • On-demand offsetting & rounded philanthropic giving directed toward vetted, high-integrity projects
  • Quarterly footprint statements formatted for personal or corporate ESG disclosure
Frontier — YTD
Carbon avoided this quarter: 412 tCO₂e
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Under the Hood

One relationship manager, every entity, one consolidated view.

Personal, corporate and trust-held capital are opened as distinct legal accounts — each with its own mandate, signatories and reporting line — but structured from day one to roll up into a single relationship record. Nothing is netted or commingled: the consolidation happens in the reporting layer, not in the ledger.

Personal Account
Multi-currency, individual mandate
Held in the individual's own name; instructed solely by the account holder or their appointed attorney.
Corporate Account
Operating entity, board-approved signatories
Mandated by board resolution; signatory list and authority limits reviewed at each periodic KYC refresh.
Trust / Structure Account
Trustee-instructed, independent mandate
Operated strictly on trustee instruction, independent of the settlor's personal or corporate mandates.
Consolidated Relationship View
One dedicated relationship manager · one reporting dashboard · segregated safeguarded balances beneath each entity

Client money sits in segregated, ring-fenced pooled accounts at tier-one custodian banks under each entity — never on Fortera Nova's own balance sheet. The relationship manager and consolidated dashboard sit above that structure as a reporting and servicing layer; they do not alter which entity legally holds which balance, and nothing here changes the FSCS or safeguarding treatment of the underlying account.

The Object Itself

Issued in metal. Measured in carbon.

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A card built to the same standard as the accounts behind it — and a footprint statement with every cycle. The metal itself is recycled stainless composite, weighted deliberately, and issued only once onboarding and account structuring are complete — it is the last thing you receive, not the first, because it should feel like confirmation of a relationship rather than a marketing gesture. Every statement pairs spend with its carbon equivalent, broken down by category, so the environmental cost of a transaction is as visible as its price.

Wherever the Relationship Travels

Every account is opened against a file — source of wealth, source of funds, beneficial ownership, sanctions and PEP screening — built once, checked continuously, and never left to go stale between periodic reviews.

Fortera Nova — original photography

Day One

Onboarded like a principal.

01

Arrive

A single conversation, not a stack of forms. Enhanced due diligence begins immediately: certified identity verification, source-of-wealth and source-of-funds documentation, beneficial-ownership mapping for any corporate or trust structure, and sanctions/PEP screening against continuously updated watchlists. Your relationship manager owns the file from the first hello — every workstream runs in parallel, not in sequence, so nothing sits waiting on your desk.

02

Move

Accounts, cards and FX live within days — multi-currency from the very first transfer, with corridors pre-configured for wherever your capital and your family already operate, and correspondent relationships already in place for the currencies you actually use.

03

Structure

Personal, corporate and trust-held accounts are opened as distinct, appropriately mandated entities and mapped into a single consolidated architecture — each with its own KYC file and signatory list, but reporting through one relationship manager rather than three separate banking relationships.

04

Report

Your dashboard opens with your numbers already in it: performance, positions, and footprint, refreshed daily and exportable in the format your accountant or family office already uses. Periodic KYC refresh is scheduled to risk rating, not left to lapse until a regulator asks.

Onboarding follows the same due-diligence standard applied across UK and EU private banking: identity and address verification to the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 standard, source-of-funds evidencing for the specific transaction that opens the account, source-of-wealth narrative for the accumulation of assets more broadly, and enhanced due diligence — including senior sign-off — for politically exposed persons or higher-risk jurisdictions. None of it is outsourced to a form; a named case handler runs the file end to end.
Founding Membership

Capital, with conviction. Join the founding circle.

Founding members shape the account architecture, the servicing model, and the Consortium itself — priority access to structuring, FX desks and reporting tools before they open more broadly.

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