Finance refers to monetary resources and to the study and discipline of money,currency,assets and liabilities. As a subject of study,it is related to but distinct from economics,which is the study of the production,distribution,and consumption of goods and services. Based on the scope of financial activities in financial systems,the discipline can be divided into personal,corporate,and public finance.
Investment banking is an advisory-based financial service for institutional investors,corporations,governments,and similar clients. Traditionally associated with corporate finance,such a bank might assist in raising financial capital by underwriting or acting as the client's agent in the issuance of debt or equity securities. An investment bank may also assist companies involved in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and provide ancillary services such as market making,trading of derivatives and equity securities,FICC services or research. Most investment banks maintain prime brokerage and asset management departments in conjunction with their investment research businesses. As an industry,it is broken up into the Bulge Bracket,Middle Market,and boutique market.
Raiffeisen Bank is a universal bank on the Romanian market,providing a complete range of products and services to private individuals,SMEs and large corporations via multiple distribution channels:banking outlets,ATM and EPOS networks,phone-banking and mobile-banking (myBanking). It provide corporate,retail and investment banking services.
Peter Lewyn Bernstein was an American financial historian,economist and educator whose evangelizing of the efficient-market hypothesis to the public made him one of the country's best known popularizers of academic finance.
Wealth management (WM) or wealth management advisory (WMA) is an investment advisory service that provides financial management and wealth advisory services to a wide array of clients ranging from affluent to high-net-worth (HNW) and ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) individuals and families. It is a discipline which incorporates structuring and planning wealth to assist in growing,preserving,and protecting wealth,whilst passing it onto the family in a tax-efficient manner and in accordance with their wishes. Wealth management brings together tax planning,wealth protection,estate planning,succession planning,and family governance.
Banca ComercialăRomână(BCR) is a Romanian universal bank. It is one of the main banks in Romania and is a subsidiary of Erste Group.
Bradley Belt is an American businessman. He is the CEO of Palisades Capital and a former managing director of the Milken Institute. He is vice chairman of Orchard Global Asset Management. In 2024,he was elected mayor of Kiawah Island.
UniCredit S.p.A. is an Italian multinational banking group headquartered in Milan. It is a systemically important bank and the world's 34th largest by assets. It was formed through the merger of Credito Italiano and Unicredito in 1998 but has a corporate identity stretching back to its first foundation in 1870 as Banca di Genova. UniCredit is listed on the Borsa Italiana and Frankfurt Stock Exchange and is a constituent stock of the Euro Stoxx 50 index of leading shares.
Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich A.G. (RZB) was a significant bank in Austria and the central institution of the Raiffeisen Banking Group (RBG) until its merger into its subsidiary Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) in 2017.
Sebastian Teodor Gheorghe Vlădescu is a Romanian economist and politician. A former member of the National Liberal Party (PNL),he was the Minister of Public Finance of Romania in the first Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu cabinet and starting from 23 December 2009 in the Emil Boc cabinet.
The KontronGroup of enterprises is an IT consulting,products and services provider with its head office in Linz,Austria.
A chief strategy officer (CSO) is an executive that usually reports to the CEO and has primary responsibility for strategy formulation and management,including developing the corporate vision and strategy,overseeing strategic planning,and leading strategic initiatives,including M&A,transformation,partnerships,and cost reduction. Some companies give the title of chief strategist or chief business officer to its senior executives who are holding the top strategy role.
Austria-Moldova relations are the bilateral relations between Austria and Moldova. Both countries established the diplomatic relations on 25 March 1992. Austria is represented in Moldova through its embassy in Chișinău. Moldova has an embassy in Vienna. Austria supports Moldova's European Union membership.
The First Filat Cabinet was the Cabinet of Moldova between September 25,2009,and January 14,2011. It was a caretaker cabinet from the election of November 28,2010,until it was succeeded by the Second Filat Cabinet on January 14,2011.
Bain &Company is an American management consulting company headquartered in Boston,Massachusetts. The firm provides advice to public,private,and non-profit organizations. One of the Big Three management consultancies,Bain &Company was founded in 1973 by former Group Vice President of Boston Consulting Group Bill Bain and his colleagues,including Patrick F. Graham. In the late 1970s and early 1980s,the firm grew rapidly. Bill Bain later spun off the alternative investment business into Bain Capital in 1984 and appointed Mitt Romney as its first CEO. Bain experienced several setbacks and financial troubles from 1987 to the early 1990s. Romney and Orit Gadiesh are credited with returning the firm to profitability and growth in their sequential roles as the firm's CEO and chairman respectively.
Raiffeisen Switzerland is a cooperative of cooperatives –the union of all independent Swiss Raiffeisen banks. It bears responsibility for the business policy and strategy within the Raiffeisen Group. The 219 independent Raiffeisen banks of Switzerland are organised as cooperatives. With 896 branch offices in total,they make up the densest branch network of any Swiss bank. After the acquisition of Credit Suisse by UBS,the Raiffeisen Group has become the second-largest banking group in Switzerland with client assets under management of 246.6 billion francs. Since June 2014,Raiffeisen has been classified as one of Switzerland's systemically important banks and must therefore meet special requirements in terms of capital. Raiffeisen Switzerland has 3.65 million clients in Switzerland,of whom approximately 1.9 million are cooperative members and thus co-owners of their regional Raiffeisen banks.
Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) is a key entity of the decentralized Raiffeisen Banking Group in Austria,acting both as the latter's domestic central financial entity and as the holding company for all the group's operations outside of Austria. The bank is listed on the Wiener Börse. Its major shareholders are the Raiffeisen Banking Group's eight regional banks (Raiffeisen-Landesbanken),which are bound by a shareholders' agreement and together hold a majority of RBI's equity.
Founded in 1922,Bank Gutmann AG,a private bank based in Vienna,Schwarzenbergplatz,specializes in asset management and is the market leader in Austria. The private bank is 80 percent owned by the Kahane family and 20 percent by executive and non-executive partners. Gutmann currently manages client assets of €20.5 billion. Clients include domestic and foreign entrepreneurs as well as entrepreneurial families,foundations,wealthy private clients and institutional investors.
Mustafa Chike-Obi is the current Chairman of Fidelity Bank Nigeria. He was the inaugural Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria ("AMCON") from 2010 to 2015. AMCON was established under the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria Act no. 4,2010,on the 19th day of July 2010,to efficiently resolve the non-performing loan assets of banks in Nigeria. During his 5-year tenure as MD/CEO of AMCON,Mustafa Chike-Obi performed creditably and won many accolades and admiration from stakeholders in Nigeria's banking and financial services industry. He is currently the Executive Vice chairman of Alpha African Advisory Limited.
Alpen Privatbank is a private bank in western Austria. It operates in Riezlern (headquarter),Innsbruck,Salzburg,Düsseldorf and Stuttgart. Its clients are primarily high net worth individuals from Tyrol,Salzburg,northern Italy,Bavaria,North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg. The customer volumes under management amount to approximately €2.7 billion.
