While policy-makers are creating conditions to strengthen recovery, the debate on the role that retail finance should play in this respect focuses on corporate loans rather than on household credit. The improvement of financing conditions for firms in order to support further investment spending...

Retail and corporate banks have to cope with legacy issues that impede their efficiency and reactivity. In particular, different norms within groups are still used for accountancy, cost allocation systems and product hierarchies. Also, the share of IT spending used to maintain existing IT...

1. Characterisation of cyber-incidents; 2. Need for convergence in incident reporting schemes; 3. Optimising information sharing; 4. Need for benchmark statistics on cyber-trends; 5. Complementary policies to reinforce prevention; 6. Complementary policies to strengthen responses in case of...