Despite the recent setback, banks’ presence in foreign markets today is much greater overall than it was a few years ago. One reason is that revenue growth usually goes hand-in-hand with macroeconomic growth, which increasingly is found in emerging-market countries, rather than in many banks’ mature Western home markets.
尽管最近遭遇了些许挫折，但如今银行在外国市场上的形象要比几年前更加高大。原因之一是宏观经济增长通常总会带来收入增长，而当前新兴市场国家经济涨势正盛，与许多银行的西方母国形成了鲜明对比。此外，新兴市场的私人和公共部门债务也显著低于西方国家。