Switzerland: Financial Sector Assessment Program: Technical Note: The Swiss Banking System: Structure, Performance, and Medium-Term Challenges

June 13, 2007

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Switzerland: Financial Sector Assessment Program: Technical Note: The Swiss Banking System: Structure, Performance, and Medium-Term Challenges, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2007) accessed September 18, 2024

Summary

This technical note discusses the banking system structure, performance, and medium-term challenges for Switzerland. The note discusses that the Swiss banking sector has been undergoing a substantial consolidation over the last 10 years, but retains a rich collection of institutional types operating in various business segments. Consolidation has been partly driven by competitive pressures following the burst of the housing market bubble and entailed a substantial reduction in the number of institutions and branches. Smaller banks have been also developing owing to various types of cost-sharing arrangements.

Subject: Banking, Commercial banks, Cooperative banks, Financial institutions, Foreign banks, Production, Productivity, Total factor productivity

Keywords: Bank assets, Bank concentration ratios, Bank segment, Cantonal bank, Commercial banks, Cooperative banks, CR, Foreign banks, Global, ISCR, Productivity, Raiffeisen bank, TE estimate, Total factor productivity

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Pages:

38
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2007/199
Stock No:

1CHEEA2007004
ISBN:

9781451807349
ISSN:

1934-7685

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