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Profits among the crumbs

New foreign players from HSBC to Poland’s mBank will have to settle for niche roles in a profitable banking market with little room for new entrants, writes Jan Cienski in Prague.
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A second wave of bank sector transformation is preparing to sweep through the Czech Republic, possibly disrupting what for the past few years has been a fast growing but fairly comfortable market for those banks with the foresight to get into Prague early.

The onslaught is being planned by foreign banks that sat out the previous rush into the Czech Republic at the turn of the century, when state-owned banks, lumbered with bad debts, were sold off.

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