So let’s take a brief look at what the future might hold in store and discuss the key challenges that lie ahead for the savings bank sector. Do you know Swimmy, a parable by the author and illustrator Leo Lionni? It’s a story about a shoal of red fish swimming together through the vast and wide ocean.
Now, I can’t say for sure if the shade of red is HKS 13 – the business colour famously associated with savings banks – but I can nonetheless make out a number of clear parallels to the savings bank sector.