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...
Aug 19, 2021 | Culture, Trends
By Jörg Bayer, RBI | What could be a better companion for warm summer nights than a nice, cold beer? Beer is a very popular drink with a partly long tradition in CEE. Some of the best-known breweries are located there. For us, this was a good reason to do some...
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 1, 2021 | Economics, Sustainability, Trends
By Alexandra Jocham, RBI | Women are still underrepresented in the financial markets. We discussed the reasons for this in our last podcast with Veronika Lammer, who is a financial markets expert. This podcast is now about how women (and of course men) can overcome...
Jun 24, 2021 | Sustainability, Trends
By Sonja Simek, RBI | The awareness for a more sustainable lifestyle is becoming more omnipresent each day, and there are many ways to make your everyday life more environmentally conscious. If you don’t want to start by making soap yourself or run a strict zero...
Jun 17, 2021 | Economics, Sustainability, Trends
By Casper Engelen, RBI | In the last decade, we have seen an accelerated development towards digital economies in the CEE region. Here, the digitalisation of production, consumption and financial services plays a key role in economic development and convergence....