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Article: LITHUANIA: MOODY'S REPORTS: BANKING SYSTEM, DOMINATED BY FOREIGN PLAYERS, ENJOYS A STABLE OUTLOOK.
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- December 24, 2007
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While foreign ownership has played a major role in the development of the Lithuanian banking system, rapid loan growth and economic overheating are raising concerns, says Moody's Investors Service in its new Banking System Outlook for Lithuania. There were nine commercial banks and four foreign bank branches operating in Lithuania as of October 2007, Moody's notes, with concentration in the Lithuanian banking system having risen substantially over the past few years. Three Nordic-owned banks now dominate the market: at end-June 2007, SEB Vilniaus Bankas, AB Bankas Hansabankas and DnB NORD Bankas controlled almost 70% of the market as measured by total assets. "We ...