Deleveraging fears for CEE overdone, says Erste’s Wimmer

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Deleveraging fears for CEE overdone, says Erste’s Wimmer

Fears of fast deleveraging in the CEE are overdone, according to Manfred Wimmer, CFO of Austria’s Erste Bank. He sees little need for the second incarnation of the Vienna Initiative, dubbed 2.0, which aims to preserve capital in emerging Europe and avoid a chaotic deleveraging in the region, writes Francesca Young.

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