WSBI
The World Savings and Retail Banking Institute
Connecting, representing and advising savings and retail banks around the world
The World Savings and Retail Banking Institute helps savings and retail banks around the world to thrive.
Founded in 1924, WSBI brings together and represents savings and retail banks from around the world. Its aim is to achieve sustainable, inclusive, and balanced growth and job creation.
Supporting a diversified range of financial services to meet customer needs, WSBI favors an inclusive form of globalization that is just and fair. It supports international efforts to advance financial access and financial usage for everyone, therefore- fosters the exchange of experience and best practices among its members and supports their advancement as sound, well-governed, and inclusive financial institutions.
WORLD SAVINGS DAY 2022
Our World Savings Day campaign 2022
Established on 31 October 1924 by the WSBI founding fathers as the ‘World Thrift Day’, the World Savings Day has been marked ever since.
69
COUNTRIES
93
MEMBERS
5
CONTINENTS
1.4
BILLION CUSTOMERS
13,25
TRILLION ASSETS (dollars)
11,4
TRILLION DEPOSITS (dollars)
2,1
MILLION EMPLOYEES
6400+
SAVINGS AND RETAIL BANKS
WSBI recognizes that there are always lessons to be learned from savings and retail banks from different environments and economic circumstances
WSBI focuses on issues of global importance affecting the banking industry. It supports the aims of the G20 in achieving sustainable, inclusive, and balanced growth and job creation around the world, whether in industrialized or less developed countries.
WSBI represents the interests of its members towards international policy makers and standard setters on the main regulatory and other issues that shape international retail banking policy. They also promote a vision for a pluralistic banking model and an enabling environment for financial inclusion. WSBI has the additional role of bringing together members to exchange knowledge through meetings at international and international level as well as technology platforms.
Favoring an inclusive form of globalization that is just and fair, WSBI supports international efforts to advance financial access and financial usage for everyone.
WSBI also supports a diversified range of financial services that responsibly meet customers’ transaction, saving, and borrowing needs. To these ends. It, therefore, fosters the exchange of experience and best practices among its members and supports their advancement as sound, well-governed, and inclusive financial institutions.
WSBI Latest News
WSBI’s Social and Philanthropic Council unveils Bangkok Declaration
The recently created Social and Philanthropic Council has issued the Bangkok Declaration, a manifesto that includes the commitment of the participating
Study Visits on Postal Transformation hosted By Tanzania Commercial Bank
In line with WSBI’ s ongoing commitment to addressing the primary concerns of its African sub-working groups—Financial Inclusion, Digitalization, and Postal Transformatio
Banking and Technology Network (BTN)
On 21 March 2024, at 10:00-12:00 CET
WSBI Members ”la Caixa” Foundation and German Sparkassenstiftung sign an agreement to promote financial inclusion in Latin America together with the IDB
Under the agreement, ”la Caixa” Foundation joins IDB’s international Silver Finance program, aimed to improve and extend financial and social inclusion of the population above 60 years in Latin…
SCALE2SAVE
micro savings, maximum impact
Scale2Save is all about building resilience of vulnerable people
Scale2Save is WSBI’s Development Finance Practice. It aims at changing the way how financial service providers offer formal finance to rural women in enterprises and youth out of school making choices around work and life. We assist financial services providers (FSPs) at providing better opportunities to these vulnerable people that allow them to handle acute cash-flow stress caused by shocks, invest in ecosystem-based adaptation and resilience to climate change, have better access to Digital Financial Services (DFS), Cash-In-Cash-Out (CICO) and other micro and small rural enterprise and farm business support services.
We do this by helping FSPs to access international flows of finance with a gender and climate lens for micro and small businesses and for youth on their pathways into formal employment and entrepreneurship.
We also channel technical assistance grant funding to help these institutions gain better customer insights and build and track impact beyond access and inclusion
