Increased M&A activity as well as further compliance and regulatory scrutiny has seen growth in fee income and staff numbers for eprivateclient’s Top 25 Trust Companies in 2015.

The rankings, based on a survey of around 100 trust companies in the UK and UK offshore, are based on data for 2014. Where data was not provided by firms, publisher’s estimates are made, which are clearly labelled on the rankings.

According to this year’s data the trust company sector has recorded rises in terms of the number of client facing directors, trust officers, total staff...