Raiffeisen Bank International AG’s Post

📍IMF Annual Meetings 2025 We held meetings with the Ministry of Finance, Central Bank and Financial Institutions alongside the IMF annual meetings in Washington D.C. over the last week. 🇺🇸 Valerie Brunner: “Our conversations throughout the IMF week were shaped by constructive dialogue and a clear focus on regional #collaboration, capital market development, and policy alignment.”  🤝 Our meetings occurred against the backdrop of significant global geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainty, though with Emerging Markets and the Central and Eastern European region a source of relative macro and financial market stability. We outlined to policymakers, clients and stakeholders:  👉 Our commitment to #growth in the Central and South East European region  👉 Our support for financing, capital markets development and financial literacy  👉 How we can support our clients in cash management, group prime services, primary and secondary capital markets, ESG and foreign exchange  👉 Our #CEE information edge and proven track record in supporting clients’ decision making and hedging    We also hosted sovereign issuers for a well-attended reception alongside the IMF meetings on Friday evening, with Martin Blum highlighting that “discussion notably focused more on international relations than domestic fundamentals, which partly reflects generally strong balance sheets across the region." Thank you to our colleagues who represented us on this visit: Valerie Brunner, Martin Blum, Gunter Deuber, Stefan Gabriele, Elitza Kavrakova, Harald Müller, Stefan Niton and Paul Pasquali.  🙌