Moody's Banking Update Webinar
Moderator: Pepa Mori, Senior Vice President EMEA
- Banking Credit: Energy price inflation and weakening macroeconomic conditions drive negative outlook for German, Italian and CEE banks
- Recession in Germany will harm credit quality and profitability as margin benefits from higher rates take time to filter through
- Deteriorating operating conditions will weaken Italian banks’ loan quality, profitability and bond market accessibility
- Government measures and higher credit costs will dampen CEE banks’ profitability, despite benefits from increased interest rates. Meeting MREL will be a challenge for these banks
Speaker: Melina Skouridou, Vice President - Senior Analyst EMEA
- Banks' Regulation
- Consequences of the EU Council of Ministers proposal to water down and delay compliance with the final Basel III reforms to increase banks' capital requirements
- Debate on whether on the capital framework for banks is too complex to work effectively
- Credit consequences of non-calls in AT1 markets
Speaker: Simon Ainsworth, Associate Managing Director EMEA
- ESG following COP27: Banks’ Net Zero plans show progress but underscore challenges
- Challenges, risk and opportunities in the path to Net Zero
- Ability to achieve emission-reduction targets will hinge on government and regulatory policy
- Overview of EU banks vs. US and APAC peers
Speaker: Alberto Postigo, Vice President - Senior Credit Officer EMEA
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SpeakersAlberto Postigo Vice President - Senior Credit Officer, EMEA Banking Moody's Investors Service
Melina Skouridou, CFA Vice President-Senior Analyst, EMEA Banking Moody's Ratings
Simon Ainsworth Associate Managing Director Moody's Investors Service
Maria Jose Mori Senior Vice President, Financial Institutions Moody's Ratings
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Alberto Postigo joined Moody’s Inverstors Service in 2002. He is currently based inMadrid with responsibilities as lead analyst for a number of Spanish banks. Beforejoining the Financial Institutions Group, Mr. Postigo worked in the structuredfinance group for six years, mostly in the analysis and rating of ABS transactions.
Before joining Moody’s, Mr. Postigo worked at Lucent Technologies as a seniorconsultant in the switching and networking group. Mr. Postigo holds a degree inTelecommunications Engineering by the Universidad de Valladolid as well as adegree in Economics and Business Administration by the Universidad Autónomade Madrid.
Melina Skouridou is a Vice President- Senior Analyst and lead analyst for EMEA financial institutions, with a focus in Central and South Eastern Europe. In this role, she currently provides ratings analysis for a portfolio of banks in Poland, Hungary, and Slovenia. Prior to that she covered Norwegian and Cypriot banks, as well as financial institutions in Egypt, Israel, Romania and Bulgaria. This included large private, public, and state affiliated banks; small and mid-sized commercial lenders, and government-related institutions.
Melina joined Moody’s Limassol office in 2006, and started her Moody’s tenure covering financial institutions operating in the Gulf Cooperation Council. Prior to joining Moody’s, she worked as analyst for a local investment management firm conducting analysis for various securities and participating in the investment decision process.
Melina has an MSc Financial Mathematics from King’s College, University of London and a BSc Mathematics from the same school. She earned her CFA designation in 2009.
Simon Ainsworth, who is based in London, is an Associate Managing Director responsible for the analytical teams maintaining ratings on Nordic and Baltic banks and on a range of European insurance companies.
Simon previously served as a Group Credit Officer. In that role he carried responsibility for monitoring ratings quality as well as assisting in the development and implementation of rating methodologies and practices applied to rated financial institutions within the EMEA region.
Simon joined Moody’s in March 2014 following sixteen years at the Bank of England.
At the Bank, he worked in a variety of roles primarily in its financial markets and banking operation divisions; as well as working on a variety of financial risk and crisis related issues. This included the resolution of failed banks, as well as responsibility for the risk management framework applied to collateral accepted in the Bank’s sterling market operations. Simon graduated from the University of Durham in 1998, having studied Economics and Politics. He is based in London.
Pepa Mori is a Senior Vice President in the Financial Institutions Group. She joined Moody’s in 2008 as part of the Iberian team. Since then she has managed a wide portfolio of issuers, currently covering banks in Italy and Spain. She also has oversight responsibilities for Moody’s banks ratings in Central Eastern Europe.
Prior to joining Moody’s, Ms. Mori worked as a credit analyst in a variety of roles. These include credit research at BBVA, rating European sub-sovereigns and public sector companies at Standard & Poor’s; and financial analysis at BBVA’s asset management division. Ms. Mori holds a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration and MSc in Finance from Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros (CUNEF), Madrid (Spain).