ISFB Insight Online
The latest news on skills development in the banking and financial ecosystem in French-speaking Switzerland.
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Jean-Christophe Pernollet: “A bank director must understand, ask questions, and make decisions”
As a lecturer at ISFB for the Certificate in Governance and Risk Management for Board Members, Jean-Christophe Pernollet highlights the unique nature of a bank’s board of directors: making decisions without taking over the executive’s role, overseeing without managing, and understanding risks well enough to fully assume its responsibility. This requirement calls for a clear mindset: curiosity, critical thinking, and continuous learning.
4 ISFB Summer School scholarships awarded to students from French-speaking Switzerland
The ISFB is offering four free spots at its 2026 Summer School, with a total value of CHF 7,800. These scholarships are intended for students enrolled at a university or college in French-speaking Switzerland who wish to explore careers in banking and finance.
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ISFB Insight Print: The magazine for skills development in the banking and financial ecosystem of French-speaking Switzerland
The quarterly print publication features analyses, interviews, and opinion pieces on trends in the banking and finance industries.
The quarterly publication is distributed free of charge to ISFB member institutions, which may make it available to their staff, clients, or partners—particularly in their reception areas, lounges, waiting rooms, or reception areas.
Individuals can also receive the magazine as part of their ISFB Hub membership.
Since January 2023, ISFB Insight Online has primarily been an online publication. Articles, interviews, opinion pieces, newsletters, and social media posts keep pace with current events, industry trends, and ideas circulating in the French-speaking Swiss financial community. It’s all about immediacy: delivering information quickly, picking up on signals, sparking reactions, and gauging what captures attention. ISFB Insight Print operates on a different timeline. Print curates, compiles, and slows things down. It gives certain texts greater longevity, more space to certain voices, and greater weight to reflections that deserve to be preserved, reread, and shared. Digital media drives the momentum; print preserves the record. Between these two formats, different timeframes intersect. Some content remains available exclusively online to maintain its direct link to current events and extend the reading experience. Other articles, written by members for members, find their place solely in the print edition. ISFB Insight thus bridges the gap between the rapid circulation of ideas and the more enduring preservation of contributions.
Mathias Baitan, General Manager
