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The View From Belgium: Top Banker Pleads for Caution

Ernest Hemingway’s maxim that bankruptcy arrives gradually “and then suddenly” applies to banks as well: “The proliferation of social media…

1 year ago

Ursula von der Leyen’s Speech to Davos 2022 In Full

This article is part of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen addressed Davos 2022…

2 years ago

KBC Asset Management with CEO Johan Lema: ‘Everyone Invested’ Strategy Has Taken Belgian Firm to Prominence

Banking and insurance group KBC has a big, sprawling family: 41,000 employees and 12 million clients spread across Belgium, Czechia,…

2 years ago

How Do We Measure Social Impact? UniCredit’s SIB Unit Has an Answer

The social impact finance sector has grown globally in recent years — and it’s expected to accelerate further still, driven…

2 years ago

Unfriending Europe: President Putin Turns the Screw

This is perhaps not the time to tell the Germans ‘told you so’ as the nation deals with the fallout…

3 years ago

World Bank: Pandemic Recovery is an Opportunity to Step Up Climate Change Action in Europe and Central Asia

2021 needs to be the year that climate change urgency truly entered the collective consciousness and lasting action followed. In…

4 years ago

From Law to Luring Investment: One Man’s Determination to Demonstrate Benefits of an Unsung EU Destination

Stamen Yanev, CEO of InvestBulgaria Agency (IBA) since January 2015, began his career as an attorney-at-law, specialising in the area…

4 years ago

EBRD: Investing in Sustainable Infrastructure Helps Advance the UN’s SDG Agenda

At the beginning of this year, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) created the Sustainable Infrastructure Group (SIG).…

5 years ago

CFI.co Meets the Group CEO of KBC: Johan Thijs

KBC Group barrelled ahead in the wake of the financial crisis and hasn’t looked back since. What explains your remarkable…

7 years ago

Kristalina Georgieva

The little blue Audi TT with its stick shift had to be sacrificed to a small electric VW: “I need…

7 years ago