Prudence please from Kazakh banks

The banks look to be overstretching themselves in borrowing abroad to fund increasingly risky domestic lending.

For the best part of the past decade banks from Kazakhstan have been held up as paragons of virtue: universally seen as much better managed than their Russian counterparts – if that’s not to damn them with faint praise. So it’s ironic that they should now suddenly be viewed as risky credits in the context of a threatened global credit squeeze – if not a quite a crunch – in the wake of the fallout from the sub-prime fiasco in the US.

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