The EBRD’s 2012 Annual Meeting and Business Forum is starting in just one day’s time at our London Headquarters.
There’s still time to register but if you can’t make it to London you can tune in to watch some events …
Annual Meeting: watch live online
By: Jonathan Charles
Posted on | May 17, 2012 | No Comments
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EBRD Annual Meeting and Business Forum 2012: what’s on the agenda?
By: Lawrence Sherwin Deputy Director of Communications
Posted on | April 27, 2012 | No Comments
Our Annual Meeting and Business Forum is just weeks away, but there’s still time to register to attend. Join us at our London headquarters on 18-19 May for two days of expert discussion, economic news and networking opportunities. Here’s …
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Back to normal? What a closer look on food and energy prices in the transition region reveals
By: Heike Harmgart Senior Economist
Posted on | April 23, 2012 | No Comments
By Heike Harmgart and Hannah Levinger
With global food prices retreating from the spectacular highs of 2008 and 2010/2011, is there reason to assume that price increases will continue at lower levels leading to lower inflationary pressures? Can policy makers
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Economic focus: Are Banks De-leveraging in Emerging Europe?
By: Dr Franto Ricka Economist
Posted on | April 5, 2012 | No Comments
By Franto Ricka, Jonathan Lehne and Peter Tabak
The transition region continues to be affected by the fallout from the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis, with capital outflows and parent bank de-leveraging, resulting in credit contraction. This is somewhat mitigated by …
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EBRD buses en-route for Kiev’s EURO 2012
By: Anton Usov
Posted on | April 5, 2012 | No Comments
A few years ago, when the EBRD provided a €115 million loan to Kiev’s municipal transport companies, everybody relished the moment and dreamed of the day when new buses and trolleybuses would hit the roads of the Ukrainian capital. I …
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The Vienna Initiative and financial stability in emerging Europe
By: Ralph De Haas Deputy Director of Research
Posted on | March 26, 2012 | 5 Comments
By Ralph De Haas, Yevgeniya Korniyenko, Elena Loukoianova, Alexander Pivovarsky
The financial crisis of 2008-09 has put international banking to the test. Subsidiaries of international banks, now troubled in their home countries, reduced their lending earlier and faster during the …
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Measures to support lending in Hungary: will it reverse the credit crunch?
By: Peter Tabak, Senior Economist
Posted on | March 9, 2012 | No Comments
Finding ways to revive stagnant or contracting corporate and retail lending has been a key policy challenge across the transition region.
Hungary, for instance, has experienced a contraction in corporate lending by about 1.6 per cent of GDP over the …
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A new ‘credit crunch’ in emerging Europe?
By: Alexander Lehmann Senior Economist
Posted on | February 28, 2012 | No Comments
Recent data releases show deteriorating conditions for external funding for banking systems in Central Europe and the Baltics (CEB) and the south-eastern Europe (SEE) regions.
Credit growth in these countries also appears to have markedly weakened, though countries with stronger …
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Rising uncertainty for trade finance as IFI additionality increases
By: Marco Nindl, Associate Banker, Trade Finance Programme, Alexander Plekhanov, Principal Economist, and Dr Rudolf Putz, Deputy Director, Trade Finance Programme
Posted on | February 23, 2012 | No Comments
Trade finance has had another rollercoaster year in 2011, and the outlook for the industry this year is becoming at least as challenging.
In this post we take a look back at developments in trade finance in 2011, and examine …
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The syndicated loan market in 2011: A game of two halves
By: Lorenz Jorgensen, Director of Loan Syndications and Ralph De Haas Deputy Director of Research
Posted on | February 9, 2012 | No Comments
Syndicated lending in 2011
The global market for syndicated loans displayed a very different pattern during the first half of 2011 compared to the second half of the year, reflecting the marked turnabout in market conditions in the middle of …
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