巴西银行董事会主席奥斯瓦尔多·罗贝托·克利恩最近宣布,巴西银行在经历了长达两年的深刻危机后,重新被列入世界资信合格的银行。这也是整个巴西金融界开始恢复活力的象征。巴西银行是拉丁美洲最大的银行。七十年代以来,巴西银行发展迅速,目前资产已超过五百亿美元,在世界大银行中名列第十九位。一九八二年末,巴西经济陷入严重衰退,巴西银行资金外逃严重,外汇几乎枯竭,并且难以偿付到期外债本息。巴西银行在纽约、伦敦、法兰克福等重要西方城市的分行被迫推迟发放发展贷款。直至今年三月份之前,巴西银行国外分行的国际信贷活动几乎陷于停顿,存款率急剧下降,被国际金融界普遍认为缺少清偿能力,处境极为艰窘。 Oswaldo Roberto Clion, Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Brazil, recently announced that Bank of Brazil has been re-listed as a world-qualified bank after two years of profound crisis. It is also a symbol of the revival of the entire Brazilian financial community. Brazil Bank is the largest bank in Latin America. Since the 1970s, Brazilian banks have enjoyed rapid growth and now have assets of more than 50 billion U.S. dollars, ranking 19th in the world’s largest banks. At the end of 1982, the Brazilian economy was in a serious recession. Brazil’s banks ran into serious capital flight, foreign exchange was almost depleted, and it was difficult to pay the principal and interest of the foreign debt as they matured. Brazilian banks are being forced to postpone their development loans at branches in major Western cities such as New York, London and Frankfurt. Until March this year, the international credit activities of BNP’s foreign branches were almost at a standstill, and the deposit rate dropped drastically. It was generally considered by the international financial community as a lack of liquidity and was in a dilemma.