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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 and the ubiquity of online banking imply that when things are perceived to go wrong, bankers may almost instantly lose
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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 today. She called for unity and interational cooperation in the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the shocks to
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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, Slovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria. The man at the helm is chief executive Johan Lema, who has years of experience in
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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 by the effects of the Covid-19 crisis. But how can companies and beneficiaries best understand and measure the success of
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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 of the now disproved premises of its unfortunate energy policy. Not only has Germany’s dependency on Russian natural gas turned
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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 the same way the effects of climate damage are often described as irreversible, so too is the movement calling for
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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 of M&A and investments. BA is a government organisation established to attract foreign investment. The goal was to assist project
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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). The bank merged its energy and infrastructure businesses to capitalise on synergies between these sectors. It delivers investments that ensure
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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 success as a bank and a creator of shareholder value? There are a multitude of reasons. One of the main
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Kristalina Georgieva
The little blue Audi TT with its stick shift had to be sacrificed to a small electric VW: “I need to go electric. We all have this responsibility.” The commute may be slightly less exciting, World Bank CEO Kristalina Georgieva
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