Title: Using development oriented equity investment as a tool for restructuring transition banking sectors
Description: Development-oriented equity investment, undertaken in the context of World Bank projects, can assist in promoting sound banking systems, especially through its positive impact on bank governance. This was the experience of Swedfund Financial Markets that made equity investment in banks in the Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Subjects: Banks and banking, Corporate governance, Economic development projects, Finance, State supervision, World Bank
Places: Baltic States