Emerging Europe: Bank chiefs face up to the risks of tighter regulation

Regulators are addressing the shortcomings that created so much damage in the global banking system. Sudip Roy assesses what impact the reforms will have on central and eastern Europe, which suffered more than any other emerging region in the crisis.

Emerging Europe: Bank chiefs face up to the risks of tighter regulation

HERBERT STEPIC, CHIEF executive of Raiffeisen International, sums up the frustration felt by many senior bankers about the likely effects on his firm of a more intense regulatory environment. “I’m engaging a large number of employees only for regulatory issues,” he says with a sigh. “We have been bombarded with regulatory issues over the past year.” For Stepic the stiffer requirements on capital, liquidity and general reporting that international and national bodies are placing on banks are proving onerous.

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