Emerging markets, emerging crisis?

Barnabas leads Refinitiv’s sales strategy team for Investment & Advisory Solutions in EMEA. Progressive capitalist, researcher and firm believer in smart automation, he is constantly exploring how the combination of data, finance and technology can help to make circular economy the new norm. Barnabas holds a Bachelors in Marketing & Market Research, a Masters in Financial Accounting and a Ph.D. in Statistics and Econometrics.

Balazs holds degrees in Business Information Systems (BSc), and Computer Engineering (MSc).
He started his career as a software engineer at Morgan Stanley, then joined MSCI to rebuild it’s Corporate Events platform.
Currently he is leading the European Expansion at TransferWise.
The mission of the team is to make money transfers in Europe instant, and eventually free.

Richárd has recently been appointed as the CEO of ELÉT Zrt. (Első Értékpapírosítási Tanácsadó Zrt), a newly founded subsidiary of the Budapest Stock Exchange. Previously, he has gained corporate finance experience at different commercial banks, most recently he was leading the international large corporate coverage department of UniCredit Bank Hungary Ltd.

Balint Fischer graduated with a Master of Science Degree in Finance at the Corvinus University of Budapest. He started his career at Diofa Asset Management in the business development field, then worked in various management positions in treasury and brokerage business branches. In 2018, he joined Dorsum as Head of Banking Innovation, responsible for developing new banking applications and for asset management and digitization related research. From 2019 January, Balint is responsible for the complete innovation and international pre-sales activity of Dorsum.

He graduated in 2009 from Corvinus University of Budapest, meanwhile, he was already an adviser at IFUA Horváth & Partners dealing with financial institutions between 2007 and 2008. Between 2009 and 2013 he worked at the MNB, where he was the member of a group analyzing domestic effects of the European implementation of Basel III regulation. In 2013 he became the Deputy Head of Division for Financial Regulations of Ministry for National Economy, where he was mainly responsible for the domestic implementation of the European regulatory package CRD IV and for the preparation of the new Hungarian Banking Act. In 2014 he was appointed as the head of the Macroprudential Policy Department of the MNB, where he was responsible for the setting up of the macro-prudential toolkit (debt cap regulations, countercyclical capital buffer, capital buffer for a systemically important financial institution, systemic financing requirements). From 2017 he served as the head of the Macroprudential Directorate, and from 2019 he is the Director for Digitalization at the MNB. Since 2009 he has been a lecturer at several professional forums, university, and special college courses.

Eszter joined Citi in July 2007 and during the past 11 years of his carrier with Citi she has provided economic research coverage for global and local clients and Citi management in close cooperation with the global Economic Research team.

Prior to joining Citi Eszter worked as an economist for OTP Bank in Hungary covering banking and economics in the Eastern Europe. Eszter has been awarded as the best overall forecaster for Hungary in the 2019 FocusEconomics Analyst Forecast Awards.

Juraj Kotian is an economist and Head of Macro and Fixed Income Research for CEE at Erste Group Bank where he came from his previous positions of Chief economist and Head of Research of Slovenska sporitelna in 2007. His main areas of interest are macroeconomics, bond markets and governance of public finances. He has been member of various committees (Macroeconomic Forecasting Committee, Tax Revenues Forecasting Committee, Value for Money Committee) and Chairman of the Slovak Association of Slovak Economic Analysts for two terms. His background is Economic and Financial Mathematics (graduated at Commenius University) and he is a fellow of the Marshall Memorial Fellowship program of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. In 2018, Juraj Kotian was nominated by the Slovak president and approved by the Parliament as Member of Council for Budget Responsibility which is an independent fiscal institution.

Daniel Morris is a senior investment strategist at BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM). In this role, he has responsibility for promoting collaboration between investment teams and formulating alpha-generating investment views across asset classes. Daniel’s wide-ranging experience encompasses advising clients and providing investment recommendations, as well as offering a strategic perspective to senior management and portfolio managers.

Prior to joining BNP, Daniel was managing director, global investment strategist at TIAA-CREF, where he was responsible for advising clients and portfolio managers on investment strategy and asset allocation. Prior to that, Daniel was global market strategist at JP Morgan Asset Management, senior equity strategist at Lombard Street Research, and US equity strategist at Bank of America Securities.

Daniel has 23 years of investment experience. He holds a BA in Mathematics from Pomona College, an MA in International Economics and Latin American Studies from Johns Hopkins University, as well as an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Daniel is a CFA Charterholder.

Radim Radkovsky is a Director in the Global Infrastructure Group (GIG) at Fitch Ratings. He is based in London and his primary area of focus within the group is rating project finance and transportation infrastructure. Radim is also Sector Expert on Alternative Infrastructure Assets.

Arvind is a Director at Fitch Ratings, in their Emerging Europe sovereign team, based in Frankfurt, Germany. He is the primary credit analyst on a number of central and eastern European sovereign credits, including Poland. Arvind joined Fitch from Goldman Sachs, where he was the head of the Sovereign Credit Research Group within Credit Risk Management, based in Singapore.

Prior to that, he worked as a political risk analyst in the UK, at Verisk Maplecroft and Exclusive Analysis (now part of IHS). Arvind started his career as a television journalist in India, working with CNBC and CNN-IBN. He has a Master’s degree in History of International Relations from the London School of Economics, and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Mass Communication, and a Bachelor of Engineering from universities in India.

Róbert Rékási, CFA, CIPM is the President of CFA Society Hungary. Róbert works at the Central Bank of Hungary as the Head of Foreign Exchange Reserves Management department. He has 18 years of experience of the financial markets serving in various positions in the central bank. His current role is to manage the country’s foreign currency liquidity and international reserves to support monetary policy and financial stability. He has been a proud CFA Charterholder and serving as a volunteer since 2009.

Responsible for Fintech partnerships in Raiffeisen Bank International, one of leading banking group in Austria and in Central & Eastern Europe. Istvan is working in the Elevator Lab team – RBI’s group-wide fintech partnership program. See more: http://www.elevator-lab.com/ Istvan was born in Hungary and studied International Business Relationships in Austria.