First, deepening our capital markets and, second, building a genuine banking union would not only serve SMEs today, but also make our economy more resilient to “the next crisis”. Of course, both goals will take time to achieve, but it is imperative that we strive towards them as soon as possible.
It was considering all the potential financial intermediation for economic growth that, in the present year, we chose for debate in our XXXI Consultative Council the topic: Bancarização da Economia – Extensão dos Serviços Financeiros para as zonas Rurais, (Banking the Economy – Expanding Financial Services to the Rural Areas), believing it to be a current matter of national interest and importance for our reality where the district was assumed as the pole of development.