BRUSSELS, 1 June 2021 - The European Savings and Retail Banking Group (ESBG)’s Head of Payments and Innovation, Diederik Bruggink, 52, has been appointed as member of the European Commission’s Payment Systems Market Expert Group (PSMEG) from now until the end of 2025. Mr Bruggink was also part of this influential group between 2017 and 2021.

BRUSSELS, 9 April 2021​​ – Banks have been among the first companies to install computers and create large data centres. This has contributed to the efficiency of their role of financing the economic activity and intermediating between savers and borrowers.

BRUSSELS, 22 December 2020 –​ ESBG, together with 17 other European associations recently signed a joint statement on the European Data Protection Board supplementary measures.

ESBG appreciates the broad and open public debate, which took place over the past months, on banks’ dividends distribution, and we were pleased to see that the ECB recommended a less restricting approach earlier this week. This underlines once again that European banks are solid. We also welcome the review clause, which indicates that the path towards “normalisation” can possibly be continued next year.

​ESBG appreciates strongly the active approach contained within the Action Plan on Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) published today by the European Commission and the tools it contains to manage NPLs. We see a lot of good ideas within the plan that arrives when Europe’s economy and people struggle.

BRUSSELS, 14 December 2020 – ESBG submitted today its response to the European Banking Authority consultation paper on the draft revised guidelines on major incident reporting under PSD2.

​ESBG pushes for increase of irrevocable payment commitments share in EU Single Resolution Fund ex-ante contributions

The Nairobi-based institution, also known as Postbank will take part in the Mastercard Foundation-supported program by launching a “Bank in A Bag" concept and

Last year I was part of a team that conducted a Financial Diaries study of young people in Morocco, Nigeria, and

Agency banking, when a third party (agent) provides financial services outside of bank offices, took its first, tentative steps earlier this year in Morocco following new regulations enacted in 2017.