To The Point: Finance | Q2 2021

Editorial | CEE

While there is now a light at the end of the pandemic tunnel in CEE and SEE, the second quarter of 2021 again brought many changes and challenges in the region's finance sector. Sustainability is becoming an increasingly important factor, which can be seen in certain measures that we examine in this edition. While growth has returned and green energy financing (also under the flag of sustainability) drives the market in both Romania and Hungary, the financial sector also foresees consolidation in Slovenia and Hungary.

The implementation of the restructuring directive continues throughout the region, but we have instead focused in this edition on already ongoing trends (like banking regulatory changes in Croatia and Serbia or the digitalisation of the securities market in Austria), since we will soon dedicate a special edition to restructuring, which we expect will become a major market driver in the years after the pandemic subsides.