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Title Cooperative banking in Europe : case studies / edited by Vittorio Boscia, Alessandro Carretta, Paola Schwizer
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Series Palgrave Macmillan studies in banking and financial institutions
Palgrave Macmillan studies in banking and financial institutions.
Contents The Banking System in Portugal: The Case of Credito Agricola Mutuo Group / V. Stefanelli -- The Cooperative Banking System in Spain / V. Stefanelli -- The Cooperative Banking System in France / P. Marchetti & A. Sabetta -- The Peculiarity of the UK Case: The Mutual Building Societies / V. Stefanelli -- Cooperative Banking in the Netherlands: Rabobank Network / M. Cotugno -- The German Cooperative Banking System: Volksbanken and Raiffeisenbanken / M. Biasin -- The Cooperative Credit System in Italy / R. Di Salvo -- The Credit Cooperative System in Finland / R. Di Salvo, J.S. Lopez & I. Schraffl -- Cooperative Banking in the Newly European Countries / M. Cotugno -- Credit Cooperatives in Romania / C. Bussoli -- The Bulgarian Cooperative Banking / M. Cotugno -- Concluding Remarks / A. Carretta, P. Schwizer & V. Boscia
Summary Over the past decades, the European banking market has been deeply modified by events such as globalisation, financial innovation, deregulation, disintermediation, consolidation, shareholder value and the intense process of political, social and economic integration. The new environment has enhanced the level of competition; influencing the volume, quality and price of financial services and squeezing banks' profitability. Cooperative banks, nonetheless, remain healthy and are gaining market share over their competitors. As their business model is based on retail banking, which remains segmented, they are still strong in local markets. In many respects, this segmentation represents the 'last great barrier' towards the full integration of European banking. Such an oligopoly, however, may be gradually eroded by a more qualified demand and by stronger competition from other financial intermediaries. Can this business model, based on concepts of mutuality, locality, ethics, solidarity and social cohesion, survive the new environment? This book investigates the main features of the evolution of the cooperative banking model within Western and Eastern European countries in order to assess whether it is possible to treat European cooperative banking as a unified system. Based on a wide and comprehensive 'country case-study' analysis, it gives a detailed overview of the main cooperative banking systems and aims to identify best-practice models around Europe
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Banks and banking, Cooperative -- European Union countries -- Case studies
Monetary policy -- European Union countries -- Case studies
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
Cooperativas de crédito -- Países de la Unión Europea
Banks and banking, Cooperative
Monetary policy
Kreditgenossenschaft
Genossenschaftlicher Bankensektor
European Union countries
Europa
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Boscia, Vittorio.
Carretta, Alessandro.
Schwizer, Paola.
ISBN 9780230248601
0230248608
1282765426
9781282765429