Jan 12, 2022 | Business, Culture
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 2022 overview shows all the dates at one glance. Wherever planning a trip to the CEE...
Sep 2, 2021 | Business, Sustainability
by Martin Blum, RBI | Sustainable Finance is key to facilitating the decarbonisation of countries and organisations. But it also promotes outcomes which are stronger from a broader environmental, social or governance perspective. For example, the IMF cites estimates...
Aug 26, 2021 | Business, Culture, Trends
By Eleonora Ivanova, Raiffeisenbank (Bulgaria) | “Wasn’t that a mistake?”, “I must have made a mistake”. Thoughts like these usually haunt us. We are afraid to admit them to ourselves, and the thought of saying them out loud to others...
Jul 15, 2021 | Business, Sustainability, Trends
Green bonds have become increasingly popular recently, after all they enable sustainable financing of companies and private individuals. Today we want to explain the green bond basics in more detail using an example. According to Bloomberg, Slovakia’s Tatra banka has...
Jul 8, 2021 | Business, Economics, Sustainability
By Christa Geyer, Raiffeisen Capital Management | It is not so long ago that sustainability was a topic for which the majority of investors had at best a weary smile left. This somewhat arrogant view of responsible investments, which were assumed to yield lower...
Jun 10, 2021 | Business, Economics, Sustainability, Trends
By Katarina Nossakova, RBI | Following the huge rise in popularity of Bitcoin[1] with its value increasing over 300 per cent during 2020[2] and the cryptocurrency market hitting a record-high market capitalization right above $2.5 trillion[3], much has been...