There is now an extensive range of consumer financial products and services, and providers of these goods and services. Advances in communications technologies and other technological tools have dramatically broadened the provision of financial services.
BIS Review 29/2004  1  This debate is not only important for banks, but for corporations themselves. Indeed, it is regularly asserted “,-in various countries, not the least in Belgium, that SME face increasing difficulties to get bank financing and that this problem could be compounded by the revised capital requirements imposed by the new Basel II agreement.