Efma Events & Communities

Join us in building a unique global community of SME Bankers - share and exchange best practices and new ideas with peers on a regular basis by becoming a part of our many initiatives!

Drawing on its global network of bankers and insurers and on the expertise of its partner, BCG, Efma offers this community of professionals a unique opportunity to be inspired by best practices and to exchange directly with those who implement them.

One of the biggest challenges for an incumbent company is to change and truly embrace innovation. Legacy systems - both technical and organizational - regulation, and budgeting processes are some of the toughest obstacles to change. Yet, in the 4th industrial revolution in which we are living, change is not an option, it is a necessity. It doesn’t have to be necessarily disruptive but it must be transformative and pervasive.

With our partner McKinsey, we run Bankers' Clubs in countries such as France, Italy, Poland, Spain, Turkey, and the Gulf States. These clubs bring together the general managers of regional banks or the heads of retail distribution of the major national banks. At two or three meetings a year, Club members can discuss operational issues of concern to them in a friendly and “associative” atmosphere.

Insurance company executives serving the retail market are facing an exceptionally complex environment, marked by increasing regulatory constraints, a tumultuous economic context (notably linked to low interest rates) exacerbated by the health crisis, the accelerated development of digitalization and the emergence of new uses of technology such as artificial intelligence.