Work · Case study

GBS Finance

WebDevelopmentMultilingual 2025
GBS Finance
gbsfinance.com · corporate finance, special situations, investments
The brief

GBS Finance is an independent investment bank founded in 1991, present in southern Europe, Latin America and China, with hundreds of M&A deals advised. Prestige and international reach… and a digital image that had fallen behind.

The challenge: a website that spoke the language of that level — sophistication, solidity and excellence — without touching the corporate identity that already worked. No new logo, no new colour: just a website that measures up.

What we did

We redesigned the site on WordPress, from the structure up to the typography, leaving the brand untouched. A modern, elegant, practical site that reads as what it is: a bank, not an agency.

We organised the business into three clear lines — Corporate Finance, Special Situations Group and Investments — each with its own page, its team and its services, so a finance director finds in two clicks who can help and with what.

We built the archive of advised deals and the news section, which is where an investment bank proves what it claims: every transaction with its own entry, every milestone with its note. We added custom features so sensitive information is handled properly.

And we made it bilingual. English and Spanish with the same structure and the same care, because half their contacts do not read Spanish and the other half will not forgive machine-translated English.

The key

In investment banking the website does not sell: it confirms. Whoever arrives has already heard of you and comes to check you are as serious as they were told. The key was designing for that check: deals, team and geographic presence before any headline.

1991
the year GBS Finance was founded
+400
M&A deals advised
2
languages, one website
What an investment banking website demands

It does not demand effects. It demands that the deal archive is up to date, because that is the proof; that the team has faces and track records, because you hire people; that the geographic presence is real, with a page per country and not a row of flags; and that the whistleblowing channel and the legal notices sit where regulation says they should, not hidden away.

It also demands speed and discretion: light pages, no extra trackers, forms that reach the right person. Sophistication, on a financial website, means nothing gets in the way. The figures shown on the site (year founded, deals advised, offices) are the ones the bank publishes itself.

How it went
01AuditWhat worked in the brand and what did not on the site
02ArchitectureThree business lines, one deal archive
03RedesignStructure, typography and custom features
04BilingualEnglish and Spanish with the same structure
Gallery · the project in pictures (click to enlarge)
An investment bank needs order, not fireworks. Thirteen partners, thirteen cards. In banking, faces matter. Independent doesn't mean alone: seven allied banks. Executives read the site in the taxi too. Hiring is content too. It belongs on the site, not in a PDF. CSR gets its own page, not a footnote in the footer. Three services, three cards. No twelve-level menus. The international network fits in one column.
"We are here to lead. The website should say so too."Management

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