PREPARE AND SURVIVE

摘要

Two of last year's top four banks in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) rankings have disappeared from this year's rankings. Kazakhstan's BTA Bank and Alliance Bank plunged into negative equity in 2008, taking the country's total share of Tier 1 capital in the CIS (excluding Russia) down to 31.7% from 47.2%. Ukraine overtakes Kazakhstan as the largest market by bank capital. Another bank on this list, Ukrprombank of Ukraine, was liquidated in 2009, but remains in this year's ranking, which is based on end-2008 results.