Breakingviews: HVB’s next tasks may be the hardest

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Source: www.breakingviews.com is Europe’s leading financial commentary service

Date: August 2003

By Jonathan Ford

HVB’s share price has more than doubled since the end of March. So is the troubled German bank out of the woods?

Earlier this year, HVB set itself a hugely ambitious reconstruction plan, pledging to reduce its e340 billion of risk-weighted assets by e100 billion by the end of this year. The goal was to strengthen its thin capital base and so stave off another downgrade of its weak credit rating.

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