CEE banking: Common markets, different products

Differentiation has become the name of the game in emerging Europe as regional banks fight to maintain profitability, but the region’s markets still have much in common.

At the headquarters of the western European houses that dominate banking in the east of the continent, the buzzword for the past two years has been differentiation. The transition economies in the region have followed very different paths in the wake of the financial and eurozone crises, so strategies based on convergence and universal coverage have been abandoned in favour of a tight focus on the most attractive markets and ruthless loss-cutting in those harder hit.

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