OREANDA-NEWS. November 26, 2012. The Sberbank Day conference was held as a part of the annual Euro Finance Week in Frankfurt, reported the press-centre of Sberbank.

The discussion “New Economy in Europe: Between a Rock and a Hard Place” was moderated by Herman Gref, CEO and Chairman of the Management Board of Sberbank. Participants in the discussion were Gerhard Schroder, Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005; Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic; Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary; Ivica Dacic, Prime Minister of Serbia; Milorad Dodik, President of the Republika Srpska; and Zlatko Lagumdzija, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs for Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ministers of Finance for Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Croatia and Austria were among the guests of the conference. The panellists analysed the impact of pre-crisis economic models on the region’s development, discussed the current situation in the Eurozone, its impact on Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European countries, solutions to the Eurozone crisis and exchanged views on the region’s future development.

The conference included three panel discussions: “IT innovation in banking: the impact of social computing and big data”, “Innovative approach to banking the small business: trend or utopia” and “Changing landscape of retail banking: trends that reshape the future of financial services” which were led by Viktor Orlovskiy, Senior Vice President of Sberbank, Sergey Borisov, Vice President of Sberbank for the small business development, and Aleksander Torbakhov, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of Sberbank.

Herman Gref stated: “Sberbank Day Conference during the annual Euro Finance Week with the major European politicians, businessmen and top managers is a significant event, which marks a new milestone in the development of Sberbank as an influential member of the financial markets in Europe”.