Efma, a global not-for-profit organisation announced the publication of its 2014 Yearbook.
The Yearbook provides a comprehensive summary of the state of the retail financial services industry in markets across the world.
The study examines global statistical trends in retail banking and also looks at the trends in each of four regions: Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa and the Americas. The Yearbook contains a ranking of banks which covers a total of 78 countries across the four regions. These 78 countries represent 96% of global GDP and 86% of the global population, providing extremely good coverage of the industry, said a press release.
"Our unique global indices for key measures of retail banking distribution and products illustrate the continuing divergence in growth between high income and low income markets," said Patrick Desmarès, Efma's Secretary General. "The global statistics on mobile banking and payments are not yet sufficient to produce an index but, nevertheless, the rapid growth trend is clear from the countries and banks which are producing data. The growth in online banking is more of a mixed picture although it may become increasingly difficult to distinguish between mobile and online banking with different types of devices being used at different times by the same consumers."
Efma Yearbook examines global trends in retail banking
FE Team | Published: November 14, 2014 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00
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