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Top 100 CEE EU banks ranking: Poland and Czech Republic hold sway

Central and eastern European banks in the EU faced a sluggish 2013, but Poland led the region in terms of growth and the Czech Republic in terms of returns. Baltic banks are also starting to rise to the challenge.
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Top 100 CEE EU banks ranking: Poland and Czech Republic hold sway

The year 2013 was a bleak one for EU countries in central and eastern Europe (CEE) – many of its economies spent the year either mired in recession or emerging from one.

This state of affairs affected local banking. In this inaugural Top 100 CEE EU ranking, the region recorded smaller aggregate banking profits than the year before, and for Slovenia and Hungary, 2013 was the second consecutive year of losses, as many of their large banks were still in the red. 

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