The European Services Forum (ESF) is a lobby group of representatives from the European services sector that promote the liberalisation of international trade in services. It was created in April 1999 in order to give recommendations to the

European Commission The European Commission (EC) is the executive of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with 27 members of the Commission (informally known as "Commissioners") headed by a President. It includes an administrative body o ...

in the GATS negotiations of the

World Trade Organization The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization that regulates and facilitates international trade. With effective cooperation in the United Nations System, governments use the organization to establish, revise, and e ...

. Since 2012, the Forum is supporting the negotiations concerning the

Trade in Services Agreement The Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) was a proposed international trade treaty between 23 Parties, including the European Union, United Kingdom and the United States. The agreement aimed at liberalizing the worldwide trade of services such as ...

Members

A wide number of services organisations are covered, including many from

insurance Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss in which, in exchange for a fee, a party agrees to compensate another party in the event of a certain loss, damage, or injury. It is a form of risk management, primarily used to hedge ...

finance Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fina ...

telecommunication Telecommunication is the transmission of information by various types of technologies over wire, radio, optical, or other electromagnetic systems. It has its origin in the desire of humans for communication over a distance greater than that fe ...

s and employers' organizations.

Insurance

* Lloyd's of London (Great Britain) ** it is not a commercial company but a stock market * Zurich Financial Services (Switzerland) * Comité Européen des Assurances (CEA) ** composed of insurance associations of many European countrie

* :fr:Bureau International des Producteurs d'Assurances et de Réassurances, Bureau International des Producteurs d’Assurances et de Réassurances (BIPAR) ** composed in particular of insurance intermediaries associations of many European countries
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Finance

* Commerzbank, Commerzbank AG (Germany) *

Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank AG (), sometimes referred to simply as Deutsche, is a German multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and dual-listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the New York Sto ...

(Germany) *

Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs () is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is headquartered at 200 West Street in Lower Manhattan, with regional headquarters in London, Warsaw, Bangalore, H ...

(United States) *

Royal Bank of Scotland The Royal Bank of Scotland plc (RBS; gd, Banca Rìoghail na h-Alba) is a major retail and commercial bank in Scotland. It is one of the retail banking subsidiaries of NatWest Group, together with NatWest (in England and Wales) and Ulster Bank ...

(RBS) (Great Britain) *

Standard Chartered Bank Standard Chartered plc is a multinational bank with operations in consumer, corporate and institutional banking, and treasury services. Despite being headquartered in the United Kingdom, it does not conduct retail banking in the UK, and around ...

(Great Britain) *

International Financial Services London International Financial Services, London, usually shortened to just IFSL, was a private-sector organisation which promoted British financial services. It was merged into a new promotional organisation, TheCityUK, in 2010. It was formerly known ...

(IFSL) (Great Britain) *

European Banking Federation The European Banking Federation is a trade association representing national banking associations in countries of the European Union and the European Free Trade Association. It represents over 3500 banks and about 2.6 million employees. It was ...

(EBF) ** represents the interests of about 5000 European banks of all sizes. *

European Association of Co-operative Banks The European Association of Co-operative Banks (EACB) (GEBC in French) is the leading trade association for the co-operative banking sector with 27 member institutions and co-operative banks located in 22 countries worldwide. As the representative ...

(EACB) ** Deutsche Zentralgenossenschaftbank (Germany) **

Crédit Agricole Crédit Agricole Group (), sometimes called La banque verte ( en, The green bank) due to its historical ties to farming, is a French international banking group and the world's largest cooperative financial institution. It is France's second lar ...

(France) **

OP-Pohjola Group OP Financial Group is one of the largest financial companies in Finland. It consists of 180 Cooperative banking, cooperative banks and their central organization. “OP” stands for “osuuspankki” in Finnish, literally meaning “cooperative ...

(Finland) ** And other smaller banks *

European Savings Banks Group The European Savings and Retail Banking Group is a European banking association representing around two dozen members from 20 countries (EU and non-EU), comprising approximately 1000 individual savings and retail banks. These institutions operat ...

(ESBG)

Telecommunication

BT Group plc BT Group plc (trade name, trading as BT and formerly British Telecom) is a British Multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered in London, England. It has operations in around 180 countries and is th ...

(Great Britain) *

Deutsche Telekom AG Deutsche Telekom AG (; short form often just Telekom, DTAG or DT; stylised as ·T·) is a German telecommunications company that is headquartered in Bonn and is the largest telecommunications provider in Europe by revenue. Deutsche Telekom was ...

(Germany) *

Orange S.A. Orange S.A. (), formerly France Télécom S.A. (stylized as france telecom) is a French multinational telecommunications corporation. It has 266 million customers worldwide and employs 89,000 people in France, and 59,000 elsewhere. In 2015, ...

(France) *

Telenor Group Telenor ASA ( or ) is a Norwegian majority state-owned multinational telecommunications company headquartered at Fornebu in Bærum, close to Oslo. It is one of the world's largest mobile telecommunications companies with operations worldwide, ...

(Norway) * European Telecommunication Network Operators' Association (ETNO) * European Satellite Operators Association (ESOA)

Employers' organizations

Confederation of Danish Industries The Confederation of Danish Industry (DI) is Denmark's largest business organization (chambers of commerce) and employers' organization. DI's members are 18,000 private enterprises in manufacturing and the service industry, from virtually all sub-s ...

(DI) (Denmark) *

Confederation of Finnish Industries The Confederation of Finnish Industries (EK, fi, Elinkeinoelämän Keskusliitto, sv, Finlands Näringsliv) is the largest employers' association in Finland. It was formed at the beginning of 2005 when the two employers' associations ''Palvelutyö ...

(EK) (Finland) * Irish Business and Employers Confederation (IBEC) (Ireland) *

Mouvement des Entreprises de France The Mouvement des entreprises de France (MEDEF), or the Movement of the Enterprises of France, is the largest employer federation in France. Established in 1998, it replaced the Conseil national du patronat Français ( CNPF), or the "National Cou ...

(MEDEF) (France) *

Svenskt Näringsliv The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise or Swedish Enterprise ( sv, Svenskt Näringsliv) is a major employers' organization for private sector and business sector companies in Sweden. It has 49 member associations representing 60,000 member compa ...

(Sweden)

References

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External links

European Services Forum website
Pan-European trade and professional organizations Organisations based in Brussels International organisations based in Belgium