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Stepic refines his recipe for emerging Europe
Herbert Stepic is one of a rare breed of bankers whose name is synonymous with the institution he works at. When one thinks of RZB, one thinks of Stepic.
A cheerful, witty and charismatic man, Stepic is chief executive of Raiffeisen International and deputy chairman of the managing board at group level.
He has designed and driven the bank’s strategy for central and eastern Europe since 1986. The following year it opened its first bank in the region in Hungary – a move that Stepic says went almost unnoticed by competitors and press alike. At the time, eastern Europe was still under communist rule and considered to be a financial backwater. It was only...
