Scholarly Research Paper from the year 2008 in the subject Economics - Monetary theory and policy, grade: 1,0, University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern (Betriebswirtschaft - Studiengang: Finanzdienstleistung), 22 entries in the bibliography, language: English, comment: Die Arbeit entstand im Rahmen eines Studiensemesters in Lettland und befasst sich mit den wesentlichen Entwicklungsschritten in den Kernsegmenten der Finanzmarkte der drei ehemaligen Sowjetrepubliken. Die Betrachtungsperiode umfasst dabei die Zeit vom Zusammenbruch der Sowjetunion, von einem ehemals zentralgesteuerten "Ein-Bank- Sytem" hin zur Frage ob nach dem Beitritt zur EU im Jahre 2004 bis heute die Finanzmarkte der drei baltischen Tigerstaaten als integriert angesehen werden konnen oder nicht., abstract: More than three years went past since the European Union has increased by eight new member states from Central and Eastern Europe. Among them, especially the Baltic States have reached recently high economic growth rates. In particular Latvia, which recorded the highest one (11.9% in 2006) in the whole European Union. Having regained their independence in 1991, after the breakdown of the Soviet Union, the three Baltic States might have developed after a more than 10- year continuing transformation- process of their economies, through self- confident countries with interesting investment opportunities for foreign investors. Since the independence of the three Baltic States was restored, all three countries were driven to replace the centrally planned, socialist system, forced by the Soviet Union through a structure based system on free market principles. A continuing order of political and economical events during the last two decades, and the contemporaneous developments in the financial markets, as well as the banking and insurance sector of the three Baltic states, upcoming changes in the course of onward globalisation, and the broadening unification in financial market regulation led