ALMATY: The main challenge facing Central Asian oil exporter Kazakhstan is cleaning up a banking system saddled with bad loans, as it adjusts to lower crude prices, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission to the country told Reuters.
A significant share of Kazakh banks’ combined US$80bil assets is tied up in loans to developers and construction companies whose businesses have been hit by a series of property price crashes.
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