Banking In the field of banking, the securitisation trend appears to demand strategic and organisational adjustment on the part of banks. The relative importance of the more traditional types of banking activity can be seen to be decreasing, even though it should be mentioned that traditional banking activities have nonetheless continued to grow at a rate exceeding that of growth of nominal GDP.
We should continue to press ahead with reforms to avoid abrupt changes in financial market sentiment. And we can only acknowledge that for some of the G20 members this improvement in financial markets has not yet found its way through to  BIS central bankers’ speeches  1  the real economy.