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      Consumer finance has become one of the most important areas of banking

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      WSBI-ESBG is a propoponent of the proportionality principle, an instrument that aims to achieve the right balance between the objectives pursued by legislation and the methods used to achieve them

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      ESBG is a Social Partner on the employers’ side, together with EBF and EACB in the European Sectoral Social Dialogue in the Banking Sector. UNI Europa is the Social Partner on the workers’ representatives’ side. The ESBG Human Resources Network is consulted on an ongoing basis in this framework

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      ESBG members support the aim to curb short-term speculation and to encourage the prohibition of undesirable market behaviour

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      ​New technologies are transforming financial services and the way they are accessed by consumers; this digital transformation is shaping the future of banking.

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      Overtime for Ukrainian war refugees: DSGV employees donate over 100,000 euros through extra work

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Sanctions Painkiller: Series of webinars on navigating sanctions compliance

Virtual Panel | 03 June 2022

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Conference on cyber security in banks

Virtual Panel | 28 January 2022 Cyber security and fighting…

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“It’s the labour supply, stupid”

Virtual Event | 27 January 2022 | 14.30 CET ​The…

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BIO HASSIS HEINRICH

Heinrich Haasis (* April 21, 1945 in Streichen near Balingen) is a German CDU politician and was President of the German Savings Banks and Giro Association from 2006 to 2012.
After grammar school and commercial college, Haasis trained for the higher Baden-Württemberg administrative service, which he completed in 1968 with the state examination for Diplom-Verwaltungswirt (FH). From 1968 to 1971, he worked for the municipal administrations in Nürtingen and Hechingen.
In September 1991, Heinrich Haasis was elected President of the Württemberg Savings Banks and Giro Association by the Association Assembly. He was confirmed in this office in 1998. The Württemberg and Baden Savings Banks and Giro Associations merged to form the Savings Banks Association of Baden-Württemberg (SVBW) effective January 1, 2001. From the time of the merger until April 30, 2006, Haasis was Chairman (President) of the SVBW.
Successes during his term of office included the takeover of the previously state-owned Baden and Württemberg Gebäudebrandversicherungsanstalten by the Savings Banks Finance Group in 1994, the merger to form Landesbank Baden-Württemberg in 1999 and the merger of the two savings banks associations in Baden-Württemberg. From October 1999, Haasis was First Vice President and Chairman of the Conference of Association Presidents of the German Savings Banks and Giro Association (DSGV).
On December 1, 2005, Haasis was elected by the Association Assembly to succeed Dietrich H. Hoppenstedt as President of the German Savings Banks and Giro Association (DSGV) with effect from May 1, 2006.

BIO Prieto Rivera Diego Fernando

Prieto, who has served as vice-president of corporate business and construction, is an expert in the banking business, and has a track record of more than 20 years in the organization where he has successfully held various positions.

Dominique Goursolle Nouhaud

Dominique Goursolle, née Nouhaud, has spent most of her career at the head of the Périgueux urban transport company (Péribus) and the family transport company Gonthier-Nouhaud, and is a former vice-president of the CESER Nouvelle-Aquitaine and of the Urssaf Aquitaine. She has been involved in the cooperative life of the Caisses d’Epargne since 1999. She has been Chairman of the Orientation and Supervisory Board of the Caisse d’Epargne Aquitaine Poitou-Charentes since 2017.

BIO BIO Redouane Najmeddine

The Chairman of the Board of Directors of Al Barid Bank, Redouane Najmeddine, has been re-elected for a second successive term as Executive Chairman of the Africa Regional Group of the World Savings and Retail Banking Institute (WSBI), according to a press release issued by Al Barid Bank Group.
This consecration testifies to Al Barid Bank’s faithful commitment in defending and continuously supporting the interests and aspirations of WSBI’s African members. The WSBI Africa Regional Group comprises 36 financial institutions in 22 countries in Africa, adds the same source.
As a reminder, the WSBI is a global banking association dedicated to promoting financial inclusion, savings development and the digitalization of financial products and services; it has 100 members in 90 countries around the world (United States, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Africa).

BIO Gerhard Brandstätter

ATTORNEY DR. GERHARD BRANDSTÄTTER
Career
Law studies at the University of Florence
Collaboration as a lawyer with Prof. Salvatore Pescatore in Rome from 1979 to 1982
Joined the law firm Brandstätter, founded by his father Dr. Josef Brandstätter, in 1982
Founding of the Brandstätter law firm in 1998 together with 5 partners
Since 1982 member of the supervisory board in various commercial, industrial and financial companies
Since 1991 registered in the register of auditors
President of the Board of Directors of the Investment Bank Trentino-South Tyrol from 1991 to 2003
Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany for the Trentino-Alto Adige Region since 1999
President of the Board of Directors of the South Tyrolean Savings Bank Foundation in the years 2003 to 2012.
Since 2014 Member of the Board of Directors and of the Executive Committee of the Italian Banking Association ABI
Since 2014 President of the Board of Directors of Südtiroler Sparkasse
Since 2016 Member of the Board of Directors of the Deposit Insurance Fund (FITD) in Rome
Since 2018 Vice President of the Italian Savings Banks Association (ACRI) in Rome

Ewa Andersen

Madame Ewa Andersen holds a Bachelor of Laws and has previously been CEO of Virserums Sparbank (2006-2012) and Högsby Sparbank (2012-2014). Since April 2014, Ewa has been Deputy CEO of the National Association of Savings Banks and became Acting CEO in February 2016.
Ewa shares the savings banks’ values and sees this as a basic prerequisite in her work. In recent years, she has worked on everything from revising all our agreements with Swedbank, creating understanding among authorities and partners about why the investigation proposal for a total commission ban in the savings area is harmful to customers with smaller investment assets and how the digital development affects our way of working towards our 2 million customers, says Erik Hägglöv, Chairman of the National Association of Savings Banks (Sparbankernas Riksförbund).
Ewa has a long banking experience as a bank lawyer, private advisor, business advisor, and CEO. During the period 2008-to 2014, Ewa was a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Savings Banks and Sparbankernas Service AB. In addition, Ewa has participated in the Board since 2014 as Deputy and Vice President. She has also been a member of the consultation group between the Savings Banks and Swedbank since 2011.

Uganda

Financial literacy education

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Empowering rural women

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Low-cost mobile accounts

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Financial inclusion

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Senegal

COFINA Senegal signs MoU with WSBI

More than 50,000 low-income Senegalese women will gain access to basic financial services like savings thanks to a new tech-savvy project by COFINA Senegal and WSBI

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Nigeria

EasyClub

Connecting smallholder farmers to inputs, from finance to fertiliser, that can transform their lives

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My Pikin & I

Helping mothers save towards the welfare of their children

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Kenya

M-Chama

Using village savings groups as a stepping-stone to financial inclusion

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Côte d'Ivoire

Mobile and agency banking in agricultural value chains

Helping smallholder farmers to smooth their cash flows between harvests and improving their financial resilience

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Morocco

Mobile and agency banking in agricultural value chains

Helping smallholder farmers to smooth their cash flows between harvests and improving their financial resilience

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