TIMUR ISSATAYEV, THE chairman of ATF Bank, Kazakhstan’s fourth largest, collects old maps of central Asia. There are eight in his spacious office, some dating to the 16th century. “I bought most of them in London and I noticed that they tend to cost half of what comparable maps of Europe cost,” he says. “But the dealers tell me they are beginning to appreciate.”
Like the maps of this once opaque region, Kazakhstan’s banks are beginning to catch European eyes – not just as borrowers but also as takeover targets.
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