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 savings and retail banks from 63 countries, representing savings and retails banks worldwide.
WSBI focuses on international regulatory issues that affect the savings and retail banking industry, and provides a platform for knowledge exchange between member banks.
It’s aim is to achieve sustainable, inclusive, and balanced growth and job creationindustrialized.
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.
WSBI recognizes that there are always lessons to be learned from savings and retail banks from different environments and economic circumstances. 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.

63
COUNTRIES

87
MEMBERS

4
CONTINENTS

63
COUNTRIES

6,760
SAVINGS AND RETAIL BANKS

16Trillion
ASSETS

1.7Billion
CUSTOMERS
WSBI focuses on international regulatory issues that affect the savings and retail banking industry.
Founded in 1924, 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 industrialised 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.
Favouring an inclusive form of globalisation that is just and fair, WSBI supports international efforts to advance financial access and financial usage for everyone. WSBI supports the aims of the G20 in achieving sustainable, inclusive and balanced growth and job creation around the world, whether in industrialised or less developed countries.
WSBI also supports a diversified range of financial services that responsibly meet customers’ transaction, saving and borrowing needs. To these ends, WSBI recognises that there are always lessons to be learned from savings and retail banks from different environments and economic circumstances. 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
April 28, 2022
Scale2Save brings Ugandan financial stakeholders to commit for financial inclusion
A WSBI knowledge sharing event in Kampala ended with joint call to action for financial inclusion.
March 30, 2022
Scale2Save champions inclusive financial services for Nigerians
WSBI's programme held its first event in-person event since the pandemic in Lagos to great success.
March 24, 2022
ESBG members waive bank transfer costs to support Ukrainian people
European Savings and Retail Banking Group members are standing in solidarity with people in need in Ukraine.
March 8, 2022
Scale2Save is empowering Nigerian women through financial inclusion
WSBI's programme shares the lessons learned from its work with LAPO Microfinance using human-centred design to revamp product targeted at low-income mothers.
February 22, 2022
Access to better technology for (Supervisory) Reporting
The four European banking associations (EACB, EAPB, EBF and ESBG) co-hosted the “Access to better technology for (Supervisory) Reporting” workshop.
January 1, 2022
WSBI ESBG Events
Events hosted and organised by WSBI-ESBG and a WSBI member include statutory events, conferences and seminars. Those events take place either via webstream or in person in some 80 countries where…
SCALE2SAVE



micro savings, maximum impact
A partnership between Mastercard Foundation and WSBI
A six-year partnership with the Mastercard Foundation and WSBI, Scale2Save is a programme to establish the viability of low-balance savings accounts and to understand the extent to which savings allow vulnerable people to boost their financial resilience and wellbeing.