Conventional wisdom consigns banks in the middle ground to oblivion. To prosper, the argument goes, smaller banks must either accept eventual merger or acquisition, or find niches in which they can demonstrate that their size is an advantage rather than a handicap.
To see whether the consensus holds true, Euromoney journalists interviewed the senior executives of a representative sample of Europe’s banking Mittelstand to get first-hand these institutions’ blueprint for survival. Will any of these banks be here in three years?
BW-Bank
A traditional institution that believes its market is impregnable is unlikely to prosper.
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