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Fri, 27th Nov -- There were a lot of changes on bne's annual bank ranking list for the Eurasia region this year. Many banks moved up the list - though those that improved their position mostly did so simply because they did less badly than their peers.

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Fri, 27th Nov -- In September, both Fitch Ratings and Moody's Investors Service warned that Azerbaijan's banking sector remains fragile and highlighted the poor quality of risk management as one of the major issues. Bankers in Baku took exception to the two reports.

Ben Aris in Moscow
Fri, 27th Nov -- The London rules, thrashed out in the 1980s in Europe, are a set of principles that creditors can follow that have proven to be effective. Now some are pushing to introduce a set of "Moscow rules" to help Russian banks salvage as much from the current bad debt mess.

Nicholas Watson in Prague
Fri, 27th Nov -- With Central European bank stocks having more than doubled from their nadir hit in February, investors are clearly betting the worst is over for many of the region's lenders. But the sector isn't out of the woods yet.

Ben Aris in Moscow
Fri, 27th Nov -- The crisis has hurt Russia's banks, but for the specialists things aren't as bad as you might think. James Cook is a doyen of Russia's banking sector and the founder of Aurora, a private equity fund with a big exposure to the banking sector.

Ben Aris in Moscow
Fri, 27th Nov -- Uniastrum was one of the fastest growing banks in Russia during the boom years, pioneering a pan-CIS money transfer business worth billions of dollars. But as the crisis began to take hold in 2007, the bank's founder, George Piskov, read the writing on the wall and went shopping for a strategic investor.

Graham Stack in Bucharest
Fri, 27th Nov -- At the start of the year, the foreign owners of banks in many parts of Central and Eastern Europe found themselves in a classic 'prisoner's dilemma', the game theory scenario where cooperation between the players is the best strategy, but defection the most likely outcome.

Clare Nuttall in Almaty
Fri, 27th Nov -- Kazakhstan's banking sector has been shored up by government cash, but this isn't sustainable in the long run. Until new sources of funding can be tapped, the sector is in for a period of stagnation, a new report from Renaissance Capital says.