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November 2009

Kazakhstan: Kazakh banks receive creditor and state support

Alliance Bank’s steering committee agrees to terms of restructuring; Government to avoid assuming all liabilities


state support for BTA

Kazakhstan has to undertake a delicate balancing act. The state is trying to put the country’s most vulnerable banks back on their feet while not provoking a run on them or exhausting its $40 billion in foreign reserves. But bond investors are unhappy that a multi-billion dollar government bailout could leave part of the burden from an international debt crisis at two of the biggest banks on their shoulders.

Also, a group of north American and western European bankers’ associations wrote to Kazakhstan’s...


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