By Patricia Lang-Schönberger, RBI | During times where the Corona situation is ever so present – and new corona cases are steadily increasing again – you might not want to travel abroad but rather stay at home and enjoy the beauty of your own home country. Together with our colleagues from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania and […]
By Patricia Lang-Schönberger, RBI | Are you interested in the topic of cyber security? We are. Very much so. “When it comes to information security, the financial sector can be considered as one of the most mature industries in the market. Security concepts have always been part of banks in the form of organizational and […]
By Gunter Deuber and Matthias Reith, RBI Vienna After a phase of exponential spreading of COVID-19 infections in Austria, lasting several weeks in March, the curve has significantly flattened since the beginning of April. Now it is only linear. More importantly, in the last week, the trend has been clearly confirmed that there are significantly […]
By Helena Horska, Raiffeisenbank a.s. Czech Republic, Gunter Deuber and Matthias Reith, RBI, Vienna | COVID-19 infections are spreading globally and exponentially. In developed countries, incl. the Czech Republic, a crisis of healthcare systems seems imminent. As a result of containment measures and growing effects of the virus, we also see an existential economic crisis […]
Interview by Alexandra Jocham, RBI | Sabine Zucker, Head of Trade Finance and Transaction Banking at RBI, explains the payment innovations SEPA Instant Payments (SCTInst) and SWIFT gpi and their benefits for the customers. SEPA Instant Payments (SCTInst) and SWIFT gpi are two major Product Innovations delivering real time benefits & cost savings for […]
By Dieter Aigner, Raiffeisen Capital Management | In recent years, green bonds have become a permanent feature of the investment universe of sustainable investors. Why? Because these bonds are specifically dedicated to financing green projects. This means that the money raised from issues of these securities is used to finance ecological projects with climate relevance. […]
CEE and Austria with a lot of catching up to do By Jörg Bayer, RBI | Read the first part of this article here. What applies to the European financial market as a whole, applies even to a larger extent to the CEE and CIS region including Austria. Currently the total of “green” bonds from […]
By Jörg Bayer, RBI | For years, Green Financial Products sounded like a marketing strategy to many investors and were not taken as a serious and important market segment. This is changing rapidly now, especially in Europe. In the USA this topic is currently determined far more by the markets themselves whereas in Europe, additional […]
By Linda Struckl, born Viennese, passionate waltz dancer and experienced ball visitor | Vienna is known for many things – coffee house culture, Sachertorte, Schnitzel – but when it comes to giving the city a label, Vienna has always been the capital of dancing and balls. More than 400 balls take place in Vienna every […]
Tanja Dietrich-Hübner, Head of Sustainability at Austria – REWE International AG, Michael Huber, Fund Manager at Raiffeisen KAG, Christian Pladerer, CEO of the Austrian Institute of Ecology, and Doris Ribitsch, Head of Molecular Biology at the Institute for Environmental Biotechnology at BOKU Vienna (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences), discuss the challenges surrounding the […]
By Michael Heller, RBI | Financial markets had for a long time prepared themselves for an initial interest rate hike by the European Central Bank (ECB) in 2019, but developments in the first half of the year were almost diametrically opposed – with corresponding bullish implications for the local real estate market. The financing environment […]
By Linda Struckl, RBI, and Heidi Aichinger, Forbes Austria | Gender equality has many facets: the level of education, the quota of women in certain male dominated professional areas as well as the salary gap and many more. Discover CEE took a closer look at a very specific aspect of the topic: the number of […]