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Are CEE bank foreign ownership risks exaggerated?

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Banking sectors in central and eastern Europe have some of the highest foreign ownership rates in the world, but risks from eurozone parents could be curtailed by deleveraging since 2008.

Latin America leads the profits league

Latin American banks show the highest returns of any region in the world, but there are some sharp variations within the region.

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Winners and Losers in LATAM

Some of the multilateral development banks in the Latin Americas region are proving stellar sources of funding at this time of crisis, although others are lagging behind with depleted reserves. Writer Jane Monahan

El Salvador central bankers pull rank

Sometimes, however, it is not the US authorities that give central American banks a hard time, it is their own authorities. El Salvadorean banks are miffed because the investment reserves they deposit at the central bank are outsourced to international investment banks to manage.

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