The Banking & Capital Markets Industry Partners are top companies in the Banking, Brokerage, Stock Exchange and Credit Card sectors.

Partners participate in setting the global and industry agendas through collaborative involvement in projects, dialogue series, and communities that are designed based on the interests of the Banking and Capital Markets' community. Topics range from challenging business issues, to core policy recommendations, to corporate social responsibility.

These activities leverage the Forum’s unparalleled ability to convene senior decision makers from all different sectors, creating an effective platform for collaboration, innovation, and leadership.

Industry Partners’ enjoy privileged access to the Forum’s networks across business, government, academia, and non-governmental organizations. Industry Partnership also allows a company’s CEO or Chairman to participate in the Financial Services Governors community at the Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos.

Key annual milestones in the Industry Partnership Programme are the Financial Services Governors’ Meeting at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos; the Industry Partnership Strategists Meeting in the Fall in New York; the Financial Services Roundtable in conjunction with a Forum Regional Summit; and project working sessions.

Areas of Focus
Our working focus is driven by the needs and interests of the Banking & Capital Markets Industry Partners. Our work is generated by an ongoing dialogue among Industry Partners, CEOs, chief strategists and other relevant stakeholders. Industry Partners can participate in an evolving portfolio of projects at varying levels of engagement, with opportunities to take a leadership role in shaping the agenda and benefit from unique collaborative insight.

Financial Development Report 2011
An analysis based on a comprehensive dataset that informs the discussion of financial sector reform in developed and developing countries. 

Financial Governance Working Group
The Forum’s vehicle to address SIFIs, appropriate regulation and failure resolution; fiscal weakness and sovereign debt distress; currency volatility; divergence of global regulatory frameworks and resulting fault lines.

Mobile Financial Services Readiness Report
Assesses the relative strength of the mobile financial services opportunity by analysing a variety of factors shaping the ecosystem in given countries.

Redefining the Emerging Market Opportunity for Financial Services
Identifies how the public and private sector can work together to bring capital and financial services to less-developed segments of emerging market economies in areas such as bond markets, financing for SMEs and consumer finance.

Rethinking Financial Innovation
Aims to arrive at principles and practices for beneficial financial innovation by bringing together practitioners’ thinking from many industries and regions, as well as involving academics and supervisors.

Euro,  Dollar, Yuan Uncertainties  – Scenarios on the Future of the International Monetary System
Explores the complex and interrelated fiscal and monetary policies affecting the Euro, the Chinese Yuan, and the US Dollar; and, assesses the long-term implications to the international monetary system over the next 20 years. 

Global Agenda Councils
The Banking and Capital Markets Industry Partners also has 4 related councils for the 2010 - 2011 Global Agenda Councils:  
Industry Agenda Council on Banking
Systemic Financial Risk
International Monetary System
Fiscal Crisis

For more information contact: financialservices@weforum.org 
Gian Carlo Bruno, Senior Director, Head of Financial Services, Giancarlo.bruno@weforum.org 
Matthew Blake, Associate Director, Head of Banking & Capital Markets, matthew.blake@weforum.org 
Nadia Guillot, Senior Community Manager, Banking & Captial Markets, nadia.guillot@weforum.org
Lisa Donegan, Senior Community Manager, Banking & Capital Markets, Lisa.donegan@weforum.edu