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May 2007

Risk-taking smaller banks buck the consolidation trend

Talk in the media and analysts’ reports about banking in central and eastern Europe tends to revolve around consolidation – the inevitable acquisition of the region’s most promising targets by foreign firms eager to increase their investment in rapidly growing economies. Smaller firms, the logic goes, will have to sell up or face becoming dwarfed. The results of this year’s poll, however, provide an intriguing counterpoint.


CEZ leads the way for CEE corporatesRisk-taking smaller banks buck the consolidation trendEmerging Europe's best managed companiesEmerging Europe's best managed companies: By CountryEmerging Europe's best managed companies: By SectorSeveral smaller banks with high-risk strategies have impressed the respondents to Euromoney’s poll, suggesting that at least some markets in the region are not yet so consolidated that newcomers cannot make a splash....


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