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	<title>Brilliant Fixer reports on the Estonian economy &#187; Banking, leasing, insurance</title>
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	<description>The Estonian economy and business life in brief, 1998 until now. News from various public institutions and the press. Brilliant Fixer OÜ is a company, which offers B2B networking services in Estonia. Besides the contact search, the company is engaged in public relations and marketing.</description>
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		<title>Risks to financial stability have eased</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
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The pace of the economic downturn in Estonia has been slowing since the second quarter, as expected. At the same time, the value of goods and services exports has remained at the level that formed after the steep fall in global trade in November 2008. According to Eesti Pank&#8217;s autumn forecast, Estonia&#8217;s GDP will decline [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=3153&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Growth in the volume of overdue loans slowed in June</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In June, the corporate and household loan and leasing stock declined by 1.7 billion kroons, i.e., 0.6%. At end-June the volume of the loan and leasing portfolio amounted to 261 billion kroons, being nearly 2% smaller year-on-year. The drop in the loan volume this year has been mainly caused by the anticipated waning of corporate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=3110&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Estonia met the inflation criterion</title>
		<link>http://brilliantfixer.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/estonia-met-the-inflation-criterion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Statistics Estonia, the price level calculated on the basis of the consumer price index declined 0.2% in November and 2.1% year-on-year.
The Maastricht inflation criterion is calculated on the basis of the harmonised consumer price index (HCPI). Eurostat will publish the November HCPI data on 16 December. However, it can already be estimated that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=3108&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Financial behaviour of enterprises and households continues to be cautious</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Compared to September, the corporate and household loan and leasing stock declined in October by 0.4%, i.e., 1.1 billion kroons. The speed of the portfolio decrease has been relatively even across months in 2009 and October was no different in this respect.
Financing portfolios have shrunk by 5.7% year-on-year, constituting 255.2 billion kroons. The volumes of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=3100&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Estonia’s Bigbank opens branch in Finland</title>
		<link>http://brilliantfixer.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/estonia%e2%80%99s-bigbank-opens-branch-in-finland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Estonia&#8217;s Bigbank opened a branch in Finland on Wednesday with the intention of offering time deposits on the Finnish market.
Bigbank, which so far had branches in Latvia and Lithuania, earlier operated as a crossbord services provider in Finland. According to Bigbank, its branch is the first branch of an Estonian bank on the Finnish market.
Bigbank [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=3082&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t say &#8220;Baltics&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://brilliantfixer.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/dont-say-baltics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is the public letter that Meelis Mandel, editor in chief of Äripäev, sent to Swedbank and SEB today.
Dear bankers of Swedbank and SEB, 
Both your banks published this week their third quarter results which got major media coverage in the Scandinavian business press and elsewhere. And rightly so, since our view from this side of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=2983&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Swedbank pension funds lost 17,000 clients</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of Swedbank pension fund clients has decreased by 17,000, compared to the end of previous October. Small pension funds, such as LHV, Ergo and Nordea were most successful with getting new clients, Äripäev reports.
The information is from Friday afternoon while people could change their pension funds until the end of Saturday evening.  Swedbank announced [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=2981&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LHV Bank earns 0,17 mEUR profit in Q3</title>
		<link>http://brilliantfixer.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/lhv-bank-earns-017-meur-profit-in-q3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Estonia&#8217;s LHV Pank earned in the third quarter of this year a profit of 2.7 million kroons (EUR 172 500) and its assets grew to 600 million kroons by the end of the period.
Net revenues increased by 16% in comparison with the third quarter of 2008, the bank said. The amount of deposits increased by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=2998&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Swedbank is willing to compensate losses</title>
		<link>http://brilliantfixer.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/swedbank-is-willing-to-compensate-losses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kairikurm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swedbank is willing to compensate losses to its clients in case Financial Supervision Authority’s (FSA) accusations of breaching conflict rules are true, Priit Perens, the CEO of Swedbank Estonia told ERR News.
“We have planned a meeting with FSA on Wednesday to discuss these accusations. If we have broken some regulations and caused direct loss to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=2935&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The growth of overdue loans slowed in August</title>
		<link>http://brilliantfixer.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/the-growth-of-overdue-loans-slowed-in-august/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The share of loans overdue by more than 60 days in the loan portfolio increased less in August than in previous months. The respective indicator grew by 0.2 pp, reaching 6.5% of the entire portfolio. The quality of loans issued to the construction and transport sector and to the hotel and restaurant sector improved somewhat, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=2895&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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