Deep Dive: Central Asia & Caucasus
An overview of geopolitical risk trends across the region, assessing the impact of easing regional tensions and evolving global conflicts—from Russia‑Ukraine to Israel‑Iran—on sovereign ratings, the financial sector and energy markets.
Discussion topics:
- What is our latest view on geopolitical risk and its on impact sovereign credit quality in the region?
- Are current geopolitical events an opportunity or a threat to banking systems and corporate sector in Central Asia and the Caucuses?
Speakers
Vladlen Kuznetsov
Vice President – Senior Analyst, Financial Institutions
Moody's Ratings
Marcus Yiu
Analyst, Sovereign Risk
Moody's Ratings
Petr Paklin
Assistant Vice President – Analyst, Financial Institutions
Moody's Ratings
Lev Dorf
Assistant Vice President – Analyst, Financial Institutions
Moody's Ratings
Ekaterina Lipatova
Vice President – Senior Analyst, Corporate Finance
Moody's Ratings
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Vladlen Kuznetsov is a Vice President – Senior Analyst at Moody’s Ratings, based in Dubai. He covers a portfolio of banks and other financial institutions in the CIS countries in the Financial Institutions Group. Vladlen has an extensive background of almost 20 years in credit risk analysis of banks and other financial institutions, regional and local governments and entities related to local and central governments.
Vladlen joined Moody’s in 2006. Prior to joining Moody’s, he had worked for Fitch Ratings in Moscow covering banks and other financial institutions in Russia and other CIS countries. Before that, Vladlen worked for Ernst & Young and Arthur Andersen in Moscow with experience in banking audits since 1998.
Vladlen holds Master’s degree in engineering and economics from the Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University) in Moscow. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a holder of Financial Risk Manager (FRM) and Sustainability Climate Risk (SCR) charters from GARP (General Association of Risk Professionals).
Marcus Yiu is an Analyst with Moody’s Sovereign Risk Group. Based in Singapore, he supports lead analysts in covering a portfolio of sovereign credits in the Asia Pacific and Central Asia regions.
Marcus joined Moody’s in January 2020, after working at J.P. Morgan Asset Management as a Market Analyst based in Hong Kong. There, he performed macroeconomic and market research with a focus on Asia and took part in generating asset allocation ideas for clients.
Marcus graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Warwick.
Lev is an Assistant Vice President – Analyst at Moody’s Dubai office (UAE), covering financial institutions including Insurance companies and banks in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Prior to joining Dubai office in 2022, he worked for Moody’s Financial Institutions Group in Moscow, Russia and for Moody’s Credit Policy research group in New York. Lev holds an MBA in finance from Zicklyn School of Business (New York), and BBA degree in finance from Baruch College CUNY (New York).
Ekaterina Lipatova is a Vice President – Senior Analyst at Moody’s, based in Dubai. She is responsible for ratings of corporate issuers in various sectors in CIS including oil&gas, infrastructure, consumer products, and others.
Ekaterina joined Moody’s in 2008 after working for VTB for 5 years, in Moscow, specialising in corporate lending and later in trade finance transactions. Ekaterina holds two Master degrees in Finance from the State Academy of Finance in Moscow and SDA Bocconi School of Management in Milan.