Emerging market banks: Problems unsolved

Stockmarkets may be recovering but emerging market banks are still in crisis. The long struggle to restore capital adequacy will carry on for some time. When analyzing the top 200 emerging market banks, prepared by Fitch IBCA, it's important to remember this, writes Brian Caplen.

Emerging market banks: Methodology and definitions

Emerging market banks: The 1999 Rankings

Emerging market banks continue to suffer the effects of the crisis. Even though many economies are now well on the road to recovery – especially in Asia – it will take much longer for the health of the banks to be restored. Many banks have not yet provisioned adequately for the heap of bad loans that landed up on their books and capital ratios remain distorted.

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