Deep Dive: CIS
Commonwealth of Independence States – positive trends but many challenges ahead
Topics include:
- Economic growth and fiscal positions in many CIS sovereigns hold up, despite geopolitical risks
- Operating environment is currently positive for banks but geopolitical risks continue to exert potential volatility on key indicators
- Appetite from international investors and local banks for external borrowings will lengthen funding profiles
- Regulatory controls in CIS banking systems improve, but not uniformly
- Corporates remain resilient thanks to robust business profiles, sound balance sheets and supportive market reforms
- Limited impact from US tariffs, lower oil price remains manageable for corporate issuers
Speakers
Henry MacNevin
Associate Managing Director, Financial Institutions
Moody's Ratings
Vladlen Kuznetsov
Vice President – Senior Analyst, Financial Institutions
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Grace Lim
AVP-Analyst, Sovereign Risk
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Mikhail Shipilov
Vice President-Senior Analyst, EMEA Corporate Finance
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Petr Paklin
Assistant Vice President – Analyst, Financial Institutions
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Lev Dorf
Assistant Vice President – Analyst, Financial Institutions
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Henry MacNevin, who is based in London, is currently an Associate Managing Director responsible for bank ratings in the Middle-East, South-Eastern Europe and Turkey, and is also responsible for Moody’s global Islamic Finance initiatives. Mr MacNevin joined Moody’s London-based banking team in October 1996, initially as lead analyst for bank in Italy, the United Kingdom, the Nordic region, Belgium, Luxembourg and Hungary, and has also worked as a backup analyst for other banking systems, principally in Europe. He was also previously responsible Associate Managing Director for Moody’s bank ratings in Italy and the CEE region and was the Country Manager for Moody’s in Italy for several years.
Mr. MacNevin’s previous banking experience includes seven years with the Barclaysgroup, where he held positions in strategic planning, corporate banking, and credit risk management.Mr. MacNevin earned a B.A. (Hons) in Business Studies from PortsmouthPolytechnic in the United Kingdom
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).
Grace Lim is an AVP-Analyst with Moody’s Sovereign Risk Group. Based in Singapore, Grace covers a portfolio of sovereign credits and multilateral development banks in Asia Pacific.
Before joining Moody’s in 2021, Grace was a Senior Economist at the Monetary Authority of Singapore, where she led the economic analysis for the US, Eurozone and some ASEAN economies. Prior to that, Grace was a policy analyst in the central bank working on banking regulatory frame works.
Grace holds a Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours) in Mathematics and Economics from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
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).