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
96
MEMBERS
5
CONTINENTS
1.4
BILLION CUSTOMERS
13,25
TRILLION ASSETS (dollars)
11,4
TRILLION DEPOSITS(dollars)
2,1
MILLION EMPLOYEES
6400
SAVINGS AND RETAILS 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-ESBG Latest News
WSBI’s MD Peter Simon opens the G20 side event panel “Gender equity and SME financing in a digital landscape” at the SME Finance Forum in Mumbai
The World Savings Bank Institute (WSBI-ESBG), with the substantial support of its Indian member, the State Bank of India
WSBI-ESBG Extend Solidarity and Call for Continued Support in the Aftermath of Morocco Earthquake
Continued Support in the Aftermath of Morocco Earthquake
EU Spanish Presidency: WSBI-ESBG Spanish member, CECA’s contributions and proposals
The ESBG appreciates the potential transformative impact of these proposals on the resilience and
WSBI-ESBG Managing Director: Retail Investment Strategy, an advancement but still missing critical aspects
On 29 June 2023, a public hearing on the Retail Investment Strategy took place in the ECON Committee in which WSBI-ESBG Managing Director Peter Simon was invited to provide input to the debate.
ESBG’s first reactions on EU single currency package, open finance and payments as published today
The ESBG appreciates the potential transformative impact of these proposals on the resilience and
WSBI welcomes two new Latin American members
BancoEstado (Chile) and Banco Nacional de Credito (Venezuela) to become new members of the World Savings and Retail Banking Institute on 1 July 2023.
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.
