Economist-sociologist. He started his career in 1987 at Budapest Bank as a bond trader. From 1989, he worked in various senior positions at Creditanstalt group, and later became the CEO of CA-IB, the ...

Two years later the Creditanstalt, weakened by the merger, itself failed, plunging Europe into financial crisis. Prosecution of Baron Louis was dropped when he “voluntarily” handed over $ ...

Csaba Polacsek joined PwC Hungary’s Advisory practice as executive director in January 2016, focusing on financial and transaction advisory services. He has spent 20 years in the banking and financial ...

The news about Greece’s bailout has me thinking a lot about Creditanstalt, the Austrian bank which collapsed in 1931. This account bears remembering because we should see the 1929-1933 descent as a ...

Back in 1929 the collapse of Austria’s Creditanstalt, controlled by the Rothschilds, did much to spark the worldwide depression. The bank served Hitler during the Anschluss and now, under state ...

The tightening of money and credit eventually led to the failure of Austria’s largest bank in 1931, the Creditanstalt, launching a wave of bank failures throughout Central Europe. This included ...

Mr Bleier moved from Creditanstalt, which had acted as the CEE-focused investment banking arm of Bank Austria, prior to its merger with Germany’s HypoVereinsBank and subsequent purchase by Italy’s ...

From 2001 to 2003, he worked as a senior consultant at Creditanstalt Investment Bank. Sitdekov Tagir Alievich then moved to the Sochi Thermal Power Plant where he worked as the financial director for ...

It gave an uncanny echo of one of the reddest of red flags in international financial history, the story of the interwar failure of the Vienna Creditanstalt. In 1929, at the outset of the Great ...