Kieron Franklin is a senior property and finance leader with more than 30 years of international experience across the UK, UAE, Hong Kong, Jersey, and Saudi Arabia. He joined Skybound Wealth Management in 2026 to build and lead the firm's dedicated property and finance division, serving UK-resident and expatriate clients who need joined-up property, lending, and financial planning advice.
Kieron Franklin heads up Skybound Property & Finance, the firm’s dedicated division for clients who need joined-up advice across property, lending and wider financial planning. With more than 30 years of international experience across the UK, UAE, Hong Kong, Jersey and Saudi Arabia, Kieron brings deep banking, mortgage and wealth expertise to clients whose property and financial lives often span more than one country. He works with UK-resident and expatriate clients navigating complex lending, international income, buy-to-let portfolios, overseas property decisions and broader wealth planning needs.
Kieron spent the first two decades of his career inside major international banks, structuring mortgage, lending, and wealth solutions for high-net-worth and affluent clients across some of the world’s most demanding financial markets. He is not a generalist who handles the occasional expat case. Foreign currency income, overseas employment, buy-to-let portfolios managed from abroad, international clients buying in the UK: these situations have been his professional world for most of his career.
Having worked across the UK, Hong Kong, Jersey, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, Kieron brings a genuinely international perspective to clients whose property and financial lives often span more than one jurisdiction.
At HSBC Bank International, Kieron served as Head of Premier & Wealth across Hong Kong and Jersey, holding the Banking and Securities licence as executive officer. He managed wealth and mortgage outcomes for more than 100,000 private and affluent clients, leading a team of over 150 advisers. In his first year, the team secured £500 million in international mortgage bookings.
At RAKBANK in the UAE, he held Director-level responsibility for the bank’s entire mortgage and protection distribution strategy, across both direct-to-consumer and intermediary channels. During his tenure, AUM grew by over USD 3 billion. At Commercial Bank of Dubai, he built and secured board approval for a three-year wealth strategy and grew net profit by 18% in six months. At Saudi Awwal Bank, formerly Saudi British Bank, he doubled AUM and grew the invested client base by 60%.
Clients come to Kieron because their situation doesn’t fit the standard broker process. They live abroad. They earn in a foreign currency. They own property in more than one country, or they want to. The high street options either don’t understand the case or won’t take it on.
At Skybound, the property and finance decision sits inside the wider plan. Kieron works alongside the firm’s tax, pension, currency, and wealth teams so that decisions made on the property and lending side don’t cut across the rest of the client’s financial position. These are not isolated decisions. They are connected decisions. For clients who want that kind of joined-up thinking, there are very few places that can offer it. Skybound is one of them.
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