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| Raiffeisen’s head of risk in Minsk has some unusual weapons at his disposal |
What do you give the risk manager who has everything? According to senior executives at leading Belarusian lender Priorbank, the answer is apparently a pair of swords.
The lucky recipient of the weapons – which now occupy pride of place on the wall of his office in Minsk – was Bernd Rozenberg, board member and head of risk at the Raiffeisen subsidiary. “The swords are symbolic,” he says. “I protect the bank from risks.”
Rozenberg’s office also contains a copy of A Brief History of Time, along with an array of dictionaries. The Austrian native can manage financial reports in Russian but struggles with fiction. “Some years ago, I read Harry Potter in Russian with my children,” he says. “It was very complicated.”
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These intimate details are revealed by Raiffeisen’s Discover CEE blog, which publishes regular updates on life and finance in emerging Europe.
Last month [December] the site turned the spotlight on Belarus. Alongside a slew of articles on macroeconomics, Belarusian-Chinese relations and a recent fintech hackathon in Minsk, the editors struck a lighter note with coverage of local life and culture.