Banking and other Financial services
CEPS Staff involved
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Dr. Cinzia Alcidi is Director of Research (ad interim), Head of the Economic Policy Unit…
Cosmina Amariei joined the European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI) in November 2013, as part of the Financial Markets…
Willem Pieter is a Research Fellow and he heads the Financial Markets and Institutions Unit…
Damir Gojsic is Research Assistant in the Financial Markets and Institutions Unit at CEPS.
Zachary Kilhoffer is a Researcher in the Jobs and Skills unit at CEPS. Previously, he…
Karel Lannoo has been Chief Executive of CEPS since 2000, Europe’s leading independent European think…
Inna Oliinyk works as a Research Assistant in the Financial Markets & Institutions Unit. Recent…
Silvia Tadi is a Research Assistant in the Financial Markets and Institutions Unit at CEPS.…
Apostolos Thomadakis is a Researcher at the European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI), an independent research…
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