They have focused on banking, construction, distribution, retail, and television broadcasting.

Moreover, it is more than a debate about public policy, because, in the post crisis world, market incentives might point toward forms of separation between retail and investment banking.

First, it does not do enough to shield retail banking from investment banking risks, of which only a small share relate to proprietary trading.

Sources Thomson Financial Datastream and ECB calculations .

For large banks, Liikanen would separate trading from deposit banking, while the ICB s proposals, which are now incorporated in draft legislation in Britain, would ring fence retail banking.

The current financial crisis is causing more and more banks to focus on their retail business again payment services are at the core of this retail business .

Moreover, Africa now boasts more than 100 homegrown companies with annual revenue of more than 1 billion. Banking and retail are flourishing.

6.2 FINANCIAL INTEGRATION TEN YEARS AFTER THE INTRODUCTION OF THE EURO OVERVIEW Considerable progress in financial integration The ECB 's financial integration indicators reveal that the progress achieved in the euro area varies considerably across market segments .

By contrast , the retail banking sector is much less integrated , partly because proximity to the customer is still a decisive factor .

Information technology can be regarded as having been the main driving force behind recent changes in capacity in the EU banking systems , both at the retail and at the wholesale level .

The retail sector, too, is being transformed.

The Eurosystem will continue using these tools , especially in those areas that are still lagging behind in financial integration , namely the corporate bond , equity and retail banking markets .

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BANKING MARKETS While the euro area banking markets for wholesale and capital market related activities show clear signs of increasing integration , the retail banking segment has remained more fragmented .

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A commission headed by Sir John Vickers, the Oxford economist and former Bank of England chief economist, wants banks retail operations to be ring fenced from riskier trading and investment banking businesses.

Commissioned management consultants, however, pointed out a weakness. In terms of what in banking terminology is referred to as fixed income, UBS was far behind the very largest banks.

So the ICB concluded that its reform package for the UK would achieve the main aims of full separation at a lower cost, and without creating the risk to financial stability that could come from having undiversified, correlated, stand alone domestic retail banking.

But the draft regulation falls far short of the recommendations made by a high level expert group in 2012, which included an impermeable wall between banks speculative trading business and their retail and commercial banking activities.

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After all, full separation implies that resources from elsewhere in a given banking group are unavailable to address a retail banking crisis resulting from, say, a slump in residential and commercial property prices.

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