FBF management report 2004

Handling some 350 transactions each second, today, banks are a pillar of society, financing economic activity from the smallest personal project to the investment needs of the largest corporations.The billions of transactions that banks handle each year are fundamental to the creation of wealth and to the very fabric of society. Moreover, since the introduction of the euro, the role of banks as a socially responsible corporate citizen has never been so important, with society turning more and more to banks for a solution to its problems.

CONTENTS :
Editorial
1.Tomorrow’s European banking and financial services market
2. Banks and their customers – more transparency, more simplicity
3. Building the European Payments Area
4. Banking industry highlights
5. The French Banking Federation