This paper analyzes competition in the retail banking markets in Latin America. Retail banking services, that is banking products and services for consumers and small businesses, including deposit accounts...
This note discusses emerging international approaches for regulating design and distribution of retail banking products. Such products include deposit, credit, and payment products, being the products...
At the request of the National Treasury of the Republic of South Africa, the World Bank Group (WBG) undertook a Retail Banking Diagnostic focusing on the provision of consumer transactional accounts and...
International Finance Corporation (IFC) is working to develop solutions to close the micro, small, and medium enterprise (MSME) financing gap, collaborating with 97 financial institutions (FIs) across...
The greenfield model embodied a new approach to cross-border banking on the continent, designed to reach poorer market segments via newly built retail branches. The objective of benchmarking the financial...
As financial markets develop and deepen, one of the key issues for the fair, open and efficient operation of the markets is the protection of consumers’ rights in financial services. Be they bank depositors...
The objective of this paper is to analyze the industry structure of banking services in Brazil in order to shed light on financial performance and its drivers at a disaggregated level. The study illustrates...
In this paper the authors put forth a vision in which people are able to make small deposits into their bank account through a variety of cash handling outlets right in their neighborhood. In fact, buying...
In this paper the authors put forth a vision in which people are able to make small deposits into their bank account through a variety of cash handling outlets right in their neighborhood. In fact, buying...
In this paper the authors put forth a vision in which people are able to make small deposits into their bank account through a variety of cash handling outlets right in their neighborhood. In fact, buying...
In this paper the authors put forth a vision in which people are able to make small deposits into their bank account through a variety of cash handling outlets right in their neighborhood. In fact, buying...
Protection of financial consumers is one of the objectives of the European Union (EU) in developing a single market for financial services that can be sold across borders. The Slovak government also intends...
This press release announces the International Finance Corporation (IFC) signed an agreement to provide a US 70 million dollars loan package to Ramenka, a top tier grocery retail and commercial real estate...
Project outcome is rated highly satisfactory The sustainability of the loan's short-term objectives is highly likely, while securing long-term objectives regarding access to credit is less certain. Overall...
