Argentine banks turn the corner

After three years of heavy losses, Argentina's banks are once again in the black. The sustainability of their recovery, though, depends on expanded lending to the private sector and greater duration for their liabilities. Sudip Roy reports.

Reshaping the banking landscape

How the crisis felled Argentina’s banks

Jorge Stuart Milne: trying to
reconstruct relationships
with corporate clients

ENRIQUE CRISTOFANI HAD a simple plan to win back customers for his bank. The chief executive of Banco Río, Argentina’s second-biggest bank, introduced a scheme whereby anyone using one of Río’s credit cards to pay at the local cinema or supermarket would get a discount. It was not an unusual idea but something needed to be done. Argentina’s banks were reeling from the sovereign’s debt default and the devamilluation of the peso in 2001/02.

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