By Christof Danz, RBI | The terms innovation, digitization and customer experience are currently on everyone’s lips. Discover CEE spoke with Christian Wolf, Head of Strategic Partnerships & Ecosystems, about how he interprets these terms, why APIs are is so important and what we can learn from Lego bricks. When did the topic of digitization […]
Are you planning a business trip to the CEE region? Or would you like to know on which dates your business partner in CEE is on public holidays? The Discover CEE Public Holidays 2021 overview shows all the dates at one glance. Wherever planning a trip to the CEE region, also keep in mind that […]
By Natalya Epeykina, Raiffeisenbank Russia | How can you understand to what extent you, your team or organization is working agile? How do you ensure that development can be beneficial? There are numerous ways to understand this topic, but in this blogpost, we will talk about the “Wheel of Life” by coach Paul Mayer and […]
By Patricia Lang-Schönberger, RBI| We talked to Christoph Strasser, extreme sports athlete about collaboration, the importance of a strong team spirit and how we can keep up the latter in times where we spend most of the time at home office, without the usual social contacts to our colleagues. What can we learn from extreme […]
Jenni Jepsen is a transformation advisor at Denmark-based goAgile. She helps transforming organizations to achieve a lasting change. By working closely with the organizations, Jenni supports the people there in increasing organizational effectiveness, motivation and results. She consults, writes and speaks worldwide about leadership, communications and Agile. For Discover CEE, she answered some questions on […]
By Anja Knass, RBI | Renato Eggner is the Managing Director of Raiffeisen-Leasing Fleet Management and for years a strong ambassador for e-mobility in Austria. In our interview he explains why leasing is an accelerator for e-mobility. Mr. Eggner, could you give us a quick overview on e-mobility in Austria? Eggner: According to the Austrian […]
By Eliza-Alina Gheorghe, Raiffeisen Bank Romania | The four pillars of responsible banking are: following the right way, keeping your promises, doing more than you are asked to and being trustworthy. Doing responsible banking means getting involved in sustainable and durable projects that are of value to our societies. In practice, it means offering customers […]
By Alexandra Jocham, RBI | In the 21st century, we live in a world of global challenges such as climate change, financial crises, the COVID disease, rising political threats and ethical dilemmas. We face unprecedented levels of disruption in economics, social and environmental challenges of huge proportions. Banks as financial intermediaries play a key role […]
By Christine Würfel, RBI | Despite the economic crisis triggered by the covid-19 pandemic, financial regulators and supervisors do not lose focus on a major long-term threat for financial stability: climate related and environmental risk. Supervisory Expectations The European Central Bank (ECB) has identified climate-related risks as a key risk driver on the Single Supervisory […]
By Alexandra Jocham, RBI | We looked for a company that was particularly well adapted to the Corona crisis and found it in Kievguma, which now produces reusable protective clothing for medical personnel. Find out more about the Ukrainian manufacturer here. Kievguma https://kievguma.ua/ quickly reacted to the spread of the Coronavirus and launched the production […]
By Franz Fischler, Raiffeisen Sustainability Initiative | It is not a new insight that the banking sector is not an objective in itself but belongs to the service sector. Its services are, of course, first and foremost aimed at customers and their wishes when it comes to investing or lending money or exchanging it for […]
By Michal Kustra, RCM | Michal Kustra, Member of the Management Board of Raiffeisen Capital Management and responsible for Sales in Italy and CEE as well as for the Center of Competence CEE, shares with us his four main factors how to make an impact by responsible banking. Sustainable investment is the fastest growing segment in […]