Vakhtang Butskhrikidze: Consolidated competition

As part of Euromoney's 50th anniversary coverage, we profile some of the biggest names that we interviewed for our May CEE focus.



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Fifty years of CEE: Is size the solution? The profiles: 14 of the biggest names in CEE Ruslan Babaev Piotr Chudzik Jaroslaw Derylo Philippe Heim Makar Paseniuk Umut Shayakhmetova Tomas Spurny Johann Strobl Zdenek Turek Mahmut Unlu William Wells Laszlo Wolf Alexei Yakovitsky

Georgia’s banking market is an outlier in emerging Europe. Not only is it almost entirely free from foreign ownership, it is also highly concentrated. Between them, the two largest lenders – TBC Bank and Bank of Georgia – account for nearly two-thirds of sector assets.