In the case of the Asian crisis, financial systems in the region became vulnerable to external shocks arising from excessive concentration of risk, poor credit policies, and inadequate risk management systems. The international response, which emerged as a consensus was to move toward best practices particularly on corporate governance.
Allow me to share with you some data from the banking sector; the number of business accounts with women owners in the banking sector is 21,247 compared to 104,461 with men owners, or 17 percent of the total accounts, the value of deposits of businesses with women owners is 112 Million Euros or 7 percent of the total deposits of businesses from 1.7 Billion.