Institute for Continuing Professional Development

Dr. Siegfried Jaschinski
Chief Executive of Landesbank Baden-Württemberg

"The Role of the Banks for Germany Industry in the Age of Globalisation"

In the global capital market environment the basic challenge is to find a new and stable balance between two opposite poles, i.e. the international capital investors’ profit expectations for ever shorter time horizons on the one hand and, on the other, the companies’ chances for a sustained development. In future this will be a crucial question for German industry closely linked to the role of the banks. As banks we also will have to find the right measure and balance between these two poles in order to enhance the value-added of our national economy and give up obsolete and rigid attitudes at the same time.” The Role of the Banks for Germany Industry in the Age of Globalisation.