Greek Banks Roundtable (April 2025)
Greek financial institutions only started issuing senior unsecured bonds again in 2019, after the country’s almost decade-long debt crisis. Though mortgage lending has grown, affordability problems have meant the covered bond market has taken longer to come back. GlobalCapital assembled a panel of senior executives from leading financial institutions in Greece and overseas to discuss the aftermath of the crisis and how it affected how their organisations are returning to the bond market, the country’s economic outlook and the impact regulations such as MREL requirements are having on their issuance strategies.
Roundtable participants
| Vanisha Baker, head of credit syndicate, Nomura International |
| Andres Calzado, head of Southern Europe debt capital markets, Nomura International |
| Thomas Cohrs, head of financial institutions, Helaba Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen |
| Vassilis Kotsiras, corporate treasurer, head of funding and capital markets, National Bank of Greece |
| Elena Koukoutsidi, treasury director, Alpha Bank |
| Dimitris Psichogios, assistant general manager, group treasurer, Eurobank |
| Dimitris Spathakis, head of treasury, Piraeus Bank |
| Nikolaos Tsakpinis, origination officer, capital markets, Helaba Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen |
| Moderator: Frank Jackman, covered bond editor, GlobalCapital |