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For most of the eight years since the financial crisis, the story of banking sector M&A in emerging Europe was relatively simple. Intense appetite for assets in Poland, the region’s largest economy and the only one to avoid recession after 2008, was matched by an almost total lack of interest in markets further south as bad debts ballooned and valuations slumped.
Recently, however, the sector has started to show signs of life beyond Poland. Some of the worst-affected countries – including Romania, Slovenia and Croatia – have seen successful transactions over the past year.
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