Worldwide Membership

WSBI and ESBG: the Global Voice of Savings and Retail Banking
WSBI and ESBG members are typically savings and retail banks or associations thereof. They are often organised in decentralised networks and offer their services throughout their region. WSBI and ESBG member banks have reinvested responsibly in their region for many decades and are one distinct benchmark for corporate social responsibility activities throughout Europe and the world.

WSBI is the global voice of savings and retail banking. WSBI represents the interests of savings and retail banks at an international level and fosters members’ cooperation.

ESBG is the European voice of savings and retail banking. ESBG represents the interests of savings and retail banks vis-à-vis the EU institutions and manages high-quality cross-border banking projects.

From the beginning, savings banks have fostered access to finance for all strata of the population. That explains their current focus on retail banking: products and services in the field of payments, credits, savings and insurance for private customers and small and medium-sized enterprises.