Banespa is the key to bank

“Banks will need stronger cost discipline and controls to preserve margins”

When Euromoney reported on Brazil’s banking sector earlier this year, the expectation was that the long-awaited and much-postponed sale of Banespa, the bank formerly controlled by the state of São Paulo, would spark a wave of consolidation in the industry during the second half of the year. The sale has been postponed yet again – it may now not take place before 2001 – but the industry, tired of waiting, has got on with consolidation anyway.

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