CEE’s best bank for financing 2018: Société Générale

As global banks have pulled personnel back from CEE over the past decade, a divide has opened up between the big regional lenders and the bulge-bracket groups.

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As global banks have pulled personnel back from CEE over the past decade, a divide has opened up between the big regional lenders and the bulge-bracket groups.

The former are mainly western European groups – the likes of Erste, Raiffeisen and Intesa Sanpaolo – with extensive commercial banking networks but limited international investment banking expertise. That tends to be provided by the big US banks, most of which now serve the region from London hubs.

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