Table of Contents
Executive Summary — 5 Table: Levels
(LVLbn) — 5 Table: Levels (US$bn) — 5
Table: Levels At December 31 2007 — 5 Table: Annual Growth
Rate Projections, 2007-2012 (%) — 5 Table: Ranking Out Of
59 Countries Reviewed In Q208 — 6 Table: Projected Levels
(LVLbn) — 6 Table: Projected Levels
(US$bn) — 6 Key Issues — 7 Latvia
Commercial Banking SWOT — 9 Latvia Political
SWOT — 9 Latvia Economic SWOT — 10
Business Environment SWOT — 10 Changes To The Commercial
Banking Report — 11 The Global Financial Crisis –
Continued — 11 Table: Selected European Countries –
Projected Budget And Current Account, 2008 (as % of
GDP) — 13 New Information From
Q209 — 16 Commercial Banking Business Environment
Rating — 17 Table: Latvia’s Commercial Banking
Business Environment Ratings — 17 Table: Central And
Eastern Europe Commercial Banking Business Environment
Ratings — 18 Bank Lending — 20 Table:
Lending Overview, 2006 and 2007 (LVLbn) — 20 Total Assets,
Client Loans And Client Deposits — 21 Table: Comparison Of
Total Assets, Client Loans And Client Deposits
(US$bn) — 21 Per-Capita Deposits — 22
Table: Comparison Of Per-Capita Deposits, Late 2007
(US$) — 22 Country Update — 23
Macroeconomic Trends And Developments — 23 Table: Latvia
– Economic Activity — 24 Political
Outlook — 25 Industry Forecast
Scenario — 26 Table: Annual Growth Rate Projections,
2007-2012 — 26 Table: Projected Levels
(LVLbn) — 26 Table: Projected Levels
(US$bn) — 26 Comment On Developments Over Last
Year — 26 Comment On Forecasts — 27
Comment On Trends and Ratios — 28 Table: CEE –
Comparison Of Loan/Deposit, Loan/Asset And Loan/GDP Ratios, Late 2007/Early
2008 — 28 Banks’ Bond
Portfolios — 31 Table: Bond Portfolios, Late
2007 — 31 Competitive Landscape And
Protagonists — 33 Methodology — 35
Basis Of Projections — 36 Commercial Bank Business
Environment Rating — 36 Table: Commercial Banking Business
Environment Indicators And Rationale — 38 Table: Weighting
Of Indicators — 39
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